Thesis: Jadhav, GIS based application tool — Israel Palestine Conflict

Jadhav, Priyanka Sharad S. GIS based application tool — Israel Palestine Conflict, MS Thesis. San Diego: San Diego State University, 2015.
 
URL: http://gradworks.umi.com/16/06/1606015.html
 
Abstract

The objective of the thesis is to develop a GIS based application tool that gives insight into the ongoing controversial Palestine-Israel Conflict. The tool showcases the complete history of the conflict right from World War II through today. It also showcases the other conflicts in the Middle East, which involved Israel and Palestine.

Information about the rulers is provided and how the initial boundaries were chosen. The user can click on the important points on the Israel map. As the user clicks on the map points, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) pages will be displayed which will have information about the key events during the conflict along with some more information about the ruler and their ruling period. Information about their contribution will also be described. The programming language used to develop this tool is JAVA. Different features to this tool are added using MOJO (Map Objects Java Objects), which is developed by ESRI (Environmental Science Research Institute). The map is also developed using MOJO.

The tool will also include a few customized features for the user to understand the Palestine-Israel conflict in an easy way. Customized features like pictures, videos will be added to the tool to make the tool more interesting and informing. This tool will help people to know more about the ongoing highly controversial Palestine-Israel conflict.

 

 

 

New Article: Tal, The Sustainability of Israel’s Irrigation Practices in the Drylands

Tal, Alon. “Rethinking the Sustainability of Israel’s Irrigation Practices in the Drylands.” Water Research 90 (2016): 387-94.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2015.12.016

 

Abstract

Broad utilization of drip irrigation technologies in Israel has contributed to the 1600 percent increase in the value of produce grown by local farmers over the past sixty-five years. The recycling of 86% of Israeli sewage now provides 50% of the country’s irrigation water and is the second, idiosyncratic component in Israel’s strategy to overcome water scarcity and maintain agriculture in a dryland region. The sustainability of these two practices is evaluated in light of decades of experience and ongoing research by the local scientific community. The review confirms the dramatic advantages of drip irrigation over time, relative to flood, furrow and sprinkler irrigation and its significance as a central component in agricultural production, especially under arid conditions. In contrast, empirical findings increasingly report damage to soil and to crops from salinization caused by irrigation with effluents. To be environmentally and agriculturally sustainable over time, wastewater reuse programs must ensure extremely high quality treated effluents and ultimately seek the desalinization of recycled sewage.

 

 

 

New Article: Safran, Haifa al-Jadida

Safran, Yair. “Haifa al-Jadida: The Surrounding Walls and the City Quarters.” Middle Eastern Studies 51.3 (2015): 452-61.

 

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00263206.2014.976623

 

Abstract

`Haifa al-Jadida` (New Haifa) was erected in 1761 by order of the Bedouin ruler Daher el-Omar, governor of the Galilee. As part of the process of building the city, a wall was constructed to encircle it, with a tower overlooking it from above. After its establishment the ‘New Haifa’ became the urban core for the emergence of modern Haifa while the new city was gradually solidified and its characteristic outlines were moulded. From the end of the Ottoman period in 1918 until 1948, the urban expanse remained practically unchanged. In 1948 ‘New Haifa’ was almost destroyed except for the few ruins that were left. In spite of the centrality of the new city in the history of Haifa, very little is known about this area. This article reconstructs the image of ‘New Haifa’ by portraying the location of the city walls and the urban expanse. For the purpose of reconstruction, an 1841 sketch of the city is superimposed on an aerial photographmap of the area taken in 2008, and a map of the old city dated to 1937.

New Book: Nasasra et al, The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism

Nasasra, Mansour, Sophie Richter-Devroe, Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder, and Richard Ratcliffe, eds. The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism. New Perspectives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2014.

 

 

URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415638456/

 

Abstract

The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism brings together new scholarship to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist, modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin.

The past decade has witnessed a change in both the wider knowledge production on, and political profile of, the Naqab Bedouin. This book addresses this change by firstly, endeavouring to overcome the historic isolation of Naqab Bedouin studies from the rest of Palestine studies by situating, studying and analyzing their predicaments firmly within the contemporary context of Israeli settler-colonial policies. Secondly, it strives to de-colonise research and advocacy on the Naqab Bedouin, by, for example, reclaiming ‘indigenous’ knowledge and terminology.

Offering not only a nuanced description and analysis of Naqab Bedouin agency and activism, but also trying to draw broader conclusion as to the functioning of settler-colonial power structures as well as to the politics of research in such a context, this book is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in Postcolonial Studies, Development Studies, Israel/Palestine Studies and the contemporary Middle East more broadly.

Table of Contents

Part I: Changing Paradigms

1 Introduction: Rethinking the Paradigms – Richard Ratcliffe, Mansour Nasra, Sarab Abu Rabia Qweider, Sophie Richter-Devroe

2 Bedouin Tribes in the Middle East and the Naqab: Changing Dynamics and the New State – Mansour Nsasra

3 The Forgotten Victims of the Palestine Ethnic Cleansing – Ilan Pappe

4 Past and Present in the Discourse of Negev Bedouin Geography and Space: A Critical Review – Yuval Karplus & Avinoam Meir

5 Land, Identity, and History: New Discourse on the Nakba of Bedouin Arabs in the Naqab – Safa Abu Rabia

Part II: Naqab Bedouin Activism and Agency

6 The Politics of Non-cooperation and Lobbying: the Naqab Bedouin and Israeli Military Rule (1948-1967) – Mansour Nsara

7 Bedouin Women’s Organizations in the Naqab: Social Activism for Women’s Empowerment?– Elisabeth Marteu

8 Colonialism, Cause Advocacy, and the Naqab Case– Ahmad Amara

Part III: Politics of Research on/for/with Naqab Bedouin

9 Shifting Discourses: Unlocking Representations of Educated Bedouin Women’s Identities– Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder

Cite: Abu-Rabia-Queder and Karplus, Bedouin women’s mobility higher education

Abu-Rabia-Queder, Sarab and Yuval Karplus. “Regendering Space and Reconstructing Identity: Bedouin Women’s Translocal Mobility into Israeli-Jewish Institutions of Higher Education.” Gender, Place & Culture 20.4 (2013): 470-86.

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2012.701200

Abstract

This article offers a geographic perspective on the mutually constitutive
relations between institutions of higher education and Bedouin women’s
gendered spaces, identities and roles. Situated beyond Bedouin women’s
permitted space and embedded in Israeli-Jewish space, institutions of
higher education are sites of displacement that present Bedouin women
students with new normative structures, social interactions and
opportunities for academic learning. As such, they become a discursive
arena for the articulation and reconstruction of their previously held
conceptions and identities. Often the journey to institutions of higher
education signifies for Bedouin women the first opportunity to venture
out of their community. Traveling to the university as students,
returning home as educated women and embarking on professional careers
outside tribal neighborhoods and villages involves moving across and
beyond different locales. Such translocal mobility necessitates constant
negotiation between seemingly contradictory cultural constructs and the
development of varied spatial bridging strategies. The article seeks to
contribute to Bedouin gender studies by going beyond the functional
role of higher education institutions as well as the gendered
hierarchies of women’s mobility, placing emphasis, instead, on the
effects of socio-spatial contextuality that shapes Bedouin women’s
experiences.

ToC: Israel Studies 18,2 (2013): Shared Narratives—A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.issue-2

 

Guest Editors: Paul Scham, Benjamin Pogrund, and As’ad Ghanem

1. Note from the Editors of Israel Studies(p. v) 

   Ilan Troen and Natan Aridan

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.v

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.v

2. Preface(pp. vii-viii) 

   Daniel C. Kurtzer

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.vii

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.vii

3. Introduction to Shared Narratives—A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue(pp. 1-10) 

   Paul Scham, Benjamin Pogrund and As’ad Ghanem

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.1

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.1 

 

A Comparison between Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism

1. Palestinian Nationalism: An Overview(pp. 11-29) 

   As’ad Ghanem

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.11

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.11

2. The Zionist/Jewish and Palestinian/Arab National Movements: The Question of Legitimacy—A Comparative Observation(pp. 30-40) 

   Moshe Maoz

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.30

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.30

Approaches over Time to the ‘Other Narrative’

1. To Understand Oneself: Does it Mean to Understand the Other?—Reflections(pp. 41-52) 

   Yosef Gorny

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.41

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.41

2. Israelis and Palestinians: Contested Narratives(pp. 53-69) 

   Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi and Zeina M. Barakat

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.53

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.53

Comparison of Palestinians after the Nakba and Jews after the Holocaust

1. We Israelis Remember, But How? The Memory of the Holocaust and the Israeli Experience(pp. 70-85) 

   Dalia Ofer

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.70

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.70

2. The Palestinian Nakba and its Continuous Repercussions(pp. 86-99) 

   Adel Manna’

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.86

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.86

Concepts of Land

1. Israeli Views of the Land of Israel/Palestine(pp. 100-114) 

   S. Ilan Troen

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.100

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.100

The Growth of Religious Nationalism and the Conflict over the Holy Places

1. Narratives of Jerusalem and its Sacred Compound(pp. 115-132) 

   Yitzhak Reiter

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.115

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.115

Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism; Possibilities of Recognition and Reconciliation

1. Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism: Possibilities of Recognition(pp. 133-147) 

   Tamar S. Hermann

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.133

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.133

2. Recognition of the Other and His Past(pp. 148-155) 

   Said Zeedani

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.148

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.148

1. Notes on Contributors(pp. 156-158) 

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.156

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.156

2. Guidelines for Contributors(pp. 159-161) 

   DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.159

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.159

Cite: Pullan, Conflict’s Tools. Borders, Boundaries and Mobility in Jerusalem’s Spatial Structures

Pullan, Wendy. “Conflict’s Tools. Borders, Boundaries and Mobility in Jerusalem’s Spatial Structures.” Mobilities 2013.

 

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2012.750040

 

Abstract

Transformed communications and mobility have led to the reinterpretation of urban space, so that instead of regarding it as primarily bounded and geometrically definable, it may be understood as based on a series of relations and, thus, continuously open to its own temporality. So where does this leave contested cities where differences in civic populations are so often represented through the rigid division and bounding of territory? This article examines borders, boundaries and mobility regimes in Jerusalem in terms of the spatial qualities of the city that have formed from the deceptively simple formula of more borders/less mobility. Clearly, an unbalanced and inequitable city has developed, and the research reveals that the politically motivated planning system has stamped out the fluid ‘relational’ space needed to enhance diverse interactions. Not only Palestinians but also Israelis are subject to this extreme binary vision of the city.