464:. His model traces the nature of the Zionist project, taking into account the historical circumstances spawning Jewish 'colonization of refugees'. His early work also focused on the tension between liberal and ethnocratic-religious components of the Israeli regime, and on the privileged status given European over Eastern Jews established during the settlement project, but also the recent closing of the gaps through on-going colonization of Palestinian lands.
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Yiftachel's work is rich in conceptualization, with development of a conceptual architecture including terms such as 'trapped minorities', 'fractured regions', 'ruptured demos', 'internal frontiers', 'frontiphery', 'gray spacing' and 'displaceability'. His recent work also develops a 'South-Eastern'
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of space and power; minorities and public policy; 'ethnocratic' societies and land regimes. His early scholarship in urban and planning studies focused on
Australian metropolitan planning and its impact on 'urban social sustainability'. He later developed a theory of the 'dark side' of
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theorists. In the study of Israel/Palestine he was one of the first to break the traditional scholarly divisions between analysis of Arab-Jewish relations and internal Jewish dynamics, and one of a handful of scholars to question whether Israel acts as a democratic state within the
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In a series of books and articles, Yiftachel explores comparatively the types of regimes that typically develop under condition of ethnic conflict. In this framework, He conceptualizes the
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and 'displaceability' as underlining condition of new urban regimes and citizenship. In parallel, he developed with colleagues a model of 'doing the just city' as a theoretical and professional alternative. In
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Movement and "Israel 2020" project in Israel. He specialized in advocacy planning and land consultancy. Recently he has worked on an
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Palestinians are relegated to the status of 'unwanted' indigenous peoples resisting the ethnocratic project. Yiftachel uses a multidisciplinary approach, inspired by
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perspective by providing alternative conceptualizations to the dominant theories and discourses generated by
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and has contributed to opening up planning theory to critical theory in general, and to issues of identity, colonization and space in particular.
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Yiftachel has been a leading researcher drawing worldwide attention. During the last decade he has been the most highly cited
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Ghanem, A. & Yiftachel, O., eds. (2010). "The Vision
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Yiftachel, O. & Porter, L., eds. (2019). "Settler
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Society in the Negev", Special theme issue of
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Yiftachel has published over 120 articles and chapters. Among his books, edited collections, and monographs:
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Amara, A., Yiftachel, O. & Abu-Saad, I. (eds), (2013).
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Kemp, A., Yiftachel, O., Newman, D., Ram, U., eds. (2004).
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