Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. However, these debates have impinged little on cognate literatures, not least those of …
Shaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict focuses on a hidden facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the relentless reshaping of the Holy City by the Israeli authorities through urban policies, spatial plans, infrastructural and architectural projects, land use and building regulations. From a political point of view, the Israeli-Palestinian …
The paper provides an introductory theoretical framework for this special issue. Firstly, the main weaknesses of the traditional ‘geography of informality’ are analyzed, including its tendency to focus on urban poverty in the ‘Global South’, to privilege its economic causes, and to treat the phenomenon in terms of clear-cut dichotomies. …
Raccolgo qui i miei scritti di carattere divulgativo – ma che hanno sempre origine nella ricerca
Pochi giorni fa il progetto per un massiccio intervento di urbanizzazione israeliana nella Città Santa ha ricevuto l’approvazione da parte delle autorità municipali di Gerusalemme
Ha ancora senso parlare della possibilità di creare in Israele/Palestina due stati per due popoli?
The massive destruction of the urban fabric caused by the Israeli military operations, coupled with the impossibility of rapid reconstruction, are the features of the urbicide of Gaza
Le devastanti distruzioni del corpo urbano unite all’impossibilità di una rapida ricostruzione sono la caratteristica centrale dello stato di guerra permanente a Gaza
Le distruzioni causate dai bombardamenti israeliani del maggio 2021 e il processo di ricostruzione: intervista a Checkpoint Rainews24
In order to fully understand the Sheikh Jarrah’s case, it is necessary to be aware of how, since 1967, Jerusalem has been physically transfigured by a systematic series of urban policies and projects
