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- Title
Public spaces in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- Authors
Zawawi, Zahraa; Corijn, Eric; Heur, Bas
- Abstract
Most research on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has focused on macro and meso-levels of abstraction by exploring national territorial and urban scales. This article, however, takes a more micro-level approach by investigating one specific public space in detail. It analyses the transformation and use of Dawar, the main public space of the city of Nablus, during the First (1987-1993) and Second (2000-2005) Intifadas. Public spaces in Palestinian cities have been transformed during the two Intifadas on both the physical and the socio-economic levels. Changing power relations affect the way public spaces are produced and regulated. Citizens, too, (re)produce public spaces through everyday practices, uses, and-in our case-explicit forms of resistance. The study proposes an analytical framework to look at public spaces as the result of power relations by combining the work of two French theorists, Michel Foucault and Henri Lefebvre. This framework is then applied to Dawar during the two Intifadas.
- Subjects
PUBLIC spaces; CITIES &; towns; ARAB-Israeli conflict; NATIONAL territory; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984
- Publication
GeoJournal, 2013, Vol 78, Issue 4, p743
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10708-012-9463-9