1st Edition

Home, History and Possession in Israel-Palestine

By Tovi Fenster Copyright 2025
254 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Taking a micro-geographical approach to Israeli-Palestinian relations, this book analyses the history of space and place in West Jerusalem and Jaffa in the context of specific addresses. Based on the unique and innovative ‘archaeology of addresses’ methodology, the book provides an in-depth analysis of 11 specific sites. This ‘micro’ perspective – paying particular attention to the history and... Read more

Introduction  Part I: Jaffa  1. The Micro-Politics of the Home as a Contact Zone: 218 Yefet Street, Jaffa  2. The Politics of Recognition and Mediated Agonism: 58 Shivtei Israel Street, Jaffa  3. Ruinations and Beginnings: 8 Hatsedef Street in the Maronite Neighbourhood – Suknet Al-Huresh, Jaffa  4. Between Antiquities and Ruins in the Neoliberal Age: Conservation of the New Saraya at 21 Raziel Street, Jaffa  Part II: Jerusalem  5. Creative Destruction in Urban Planning Procedures: The Language Of ‘Renewal’ and ‘Exploitation’  6. Between the Right to the City and the Right of Return: 37 Jabotinsky/El-Amir Abdullah Street, West Jerusalem  7. The Violence of Property – Ethnography of Missing Testimonies in Registry Office Documents: 3 Hama’aravim Street and 38 Keren Hayesod Street, Jerusalem  8. Property, Ownership, and ‘Conservation’: Settler Colonial and Neoliberal Practices and the Crack between Them at 5 and 7 Hovevei Zion Street in Jerusalem  9. The Micro-Geography of a Home as a Contact Zone: Urban Planning in Fragmented Settler Colonialism  Part III: Between Theory and Practice  10. The Home as a Contact Zone: Performative Strategies and Practices in Promoting Israeli-Palestinian Recognition  11. The Archaeology of the Address in an Applied Student Project: Conceptual Plan for Palestinian Heritage Tourism in the Nuzha Neighbourhood, Jaffa  12. Students Learn about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict through the Archaeology of the Address Project: Some Insights  13. Musical Sites as ‘Whitening’ ‘Grey Spaces’ at 7 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv  14. The Micro-Geographies of the Neoliberal Settler Colonial Regime: Concluding Comments

Biography

Tovi Fenster is Professor in the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University, as well as the founder and head of PECLAB. She teaches social and cultural geography and urban planning, and has published articles and book chapters on ethnicity, citizenship and gender in planning and development.