Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine

<p>Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space resituating them within the various theoretical frameworks in colonial urban studies.</p><p>The book uses Henry Lefebvre’s three constituents of space – perceived conceived and lived – to analyse past and present colonial cases interactively with time. It mixes the non-temporal conceptual framework of analysis of colonialism using literature of previous colonial cases with the inter-temporal abstract Lefebvrian concepts of space to produce an inter-temporal re-reading of them. Israeli colonialism in the occupied areas of 1967 its contractions from Sinai and Gaza and the implications on the West Bank are analysed in detail. </p><p>By illustrating the transformations in colonial urban space at different temporal stages a new phase is proposed - the trans-colonial. This provides a conceptual means to avoid the pitfalls of neo-colonial and post-colonial influences experienced in previous cases and the book goes on to highlight the implications of such a phase on the Palestinians. It is an important contribution to studies on Middle East Politics and Urban Geography.</p>