The village of al-#x91;Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the ongoing #x93;battle over the Negev,#x94; an Israeli state campaign to uproot the Palestinian Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during …
Introduction : terra nullius in Zion? -- The legal geography of indigenous Bedouin dispossession -- The land regime of the late Ottoman period -- The land regime of the Bristish Mandate period -- Making the "dead Negev doctrine" during the Israeli period -- Historical geography …
Emptied Lands investigates the protracted legal, planning, and territorial conflict between the settler Israeli state and indigenous Bedouin citizens over traditional lands in southern Israel/Palestine. The authors place this dispute in historical, legal, geographical, and inter…
The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over the past sixty to seventy years have served the needs and in…
The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over the past sixty to seventy years have served the needs and in…
"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, …
Narrating present pasts -- Seeking recognition -- Coping with lost land -- Reforming community -- Challenging boundaries