Erez Tzfadia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erez Tzfadia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erez |
| FAMILY NAME | Tzfadia |
| SIGNATURE | TZFADIA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapir College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8325-6834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Displaceable! Precarious urban citizenship in Israel/Palestine
Under the shadow of unprecedented displacement and genocidal attack on Gaza, this article introduces the special issue dedicated to the ‘displaceability’ of urban citizenship. Centred on Israel/Palestine as a ‘laboratory’ of ‘southeastern’ urban governance under conditions of conflict, settler-colonialism, and neoliberal restructuring, the collection conceptualizes displaceability not simply as forced removal but as a chronic condition of contemp…
Displaced in place
Background Displaceability refers to the vulnerability to displacement, a condition often experienced by Indigenous communities in the context of state-led urban development. In Israel, the Palestinian-Bedouin community in the city of Rahat encounters such vulnerability as a result of settler-colonial dynamics and housing policies that, while aimed at easing housing shortages, often intensify this precarity. Purpose The study aims to explore how …
Frontieriphery
Grouping people into a geographical category of ‘peripherality’, based on positivist ontologies, conceals histories and policies of humiliation, marginalisation, and discrimination that forced communities away from access to material and cultural benefits. For this reason, we call for an anti-positivist ontological approach based on intersectional investigation, juxtaposing multi-variants of marginalised identities with multi-dimensional historie…
Temporal dynamics of contested local government among the Bedouin in Israel
Research on Indigenous local government has been overlooking the temporal perspective, particularly concerning the dynamics of controlling local government. We submit that long-term tension between up- and down-scaling predilections of the state versus an Indigenous group may produce such dynamics of control. This process is explored among the Israeli Indigenous Bedouin from their pre-state semi-nomadism to present day semi-urbanism. The dynamics…
Gray local governance and Israeli Indigenous Bedouin
Neo-settler colonialism and the re-formation of territory
In this article we critically analyse the production of Israeli territory vis a vis the ongoing transformation of land and planning policies from ones based on pure nationalism to those purporting neo-liberal logic. Unlike the existing literature − including the most recent critical body of knowledge on planning, resource management and public policy in Israel − we contend that this transformation must be understood within the framework of settle…
Rethinking Israeli Space
© 2011 Erez Tzfadia and Haim Yacobi. This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities. The authors’ postcolonial approach deals with the notion of periphery and peripherality, covering issues of spatial protest, urban policy and urban planning.Discussing periphery as a political, social and spatial phenomenon and both a product and a process manufactured by power mechanisms, the authors show how …
Rethinking Israeli Space
This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities. The authors’ postcolonial approach deals with the notion of periphery and peripherality, covering issues of spatial protest, urban policy and urban planning. Discussing periphery as a political, social and spatial phenomenon and both a product and a process manufactured by power mechanisms, the authors show how the state, the regime of citizenship…
Mixed Cities in Israel Localities of Contentions
Symbolic Meanings and the Feasibility of Policy Images
This article is aimed at crafting an interpretive policy analysis as a predictive tool by using the proposal to relocate Israeli military bases. Since the mid‐2000s, the Israeli government has promoted a new plan to transfer military bases from urban areas and central regions to the southern metropolitan area in the Negev desert. The economic and operational logic behind the program is unclear and prompts serious debate about nationality, ethnici…
Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and the Politics of the Israeli City
One of the central issues in the study of urban politics today is the fact that many cities have become multicultural arenas. The liberal viewpoint stresses the potential of the city—unlike other spaces—to offer many and equal opportunities for all residents regardless of religion, gender, or ethnic affiliation, but the critical body of knowledge highlights the ways in which the city, although apparently released from the shackles of nation- and …
Israel since 1980
Over the last quarter century, a radical demographic, economic and political transformation has been taking place from within Israel. Israelis are beginning to ask some fundamental questions about the country they live in and what it means to be an Israeli. This book, written by five Israeli academics, probes the changing nature of Israeli society over the last twenty-five years. It considers the deep rifts in that society caused by ethnic, cultu…
Abusing Multiculturalism
The logic behind land allocation for residential purposes has undergone a dramatic shift in many states with a colonial legacy in the recent decade, from an ethnonational logic that favors the ethnonational majority to a more liberal-democratic, market-based logic that disregards ethnicity. In Israel, following this shift, a new claim for biased allocation has been voiced by the ethnonational majority, politicians, and administrators, which is ba…
Identity, Migration, and the City
This article deals with the way in which Russian immigrants identify with the Israeli national project, highlighting the process through which this identification occurs and its effect on the urban context. Our main argument is that this identification has arisen through interrelated processes including the ideology of the Israeli state and the history of settlement, the Russian social constructs of ethnicity and power, and local policies through…
Public Housing as Control
This paper examines the relationship between inter-ethnic power relations and public housing policy for immigrants in Israel since 1948. Based on a comparative analysis of Israeli policy of housing Mizrahi immigrants in the 1950s and Russian immigrants in the 1990s, the paper argues that despite the perceived decline in the state's capacity, the implication of public housing policy has remained unchanged since the 1950s. By moving Jewish immigran…
Local autonomy and immigration
The paper examines the discretionary powers of Israeli local mayors in small peripheral towns under conditions of changing patterns of decentralisation and attempts to ascertain the contribution of national ideology, social structure and financial constraints in understanding the limits to these powers. Research on immigration policy-making generally focuses on the role of the state and of its institutions. Recently, as part of an underlying tren…
The ethno-class trajectory of new neighborhoods in Israel
Between urban and national
The Shifting Sands of Urban Politics, Planning And Identities
Neo-settler colonialism and the re-formation of territory
In this article we critically analyse the production of Israeli territory vis a vis the ongoing transformation of land and planning policies from ones based on pure nationalism to those purporting neo-liberal logic. Unlike the existing literature − including the most recent critical body of knowledge on planning, resource management and public policy in Israel − we contend that this transformation must be understood within the framework of settle…
Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and the Politics of the Israeli City
One of the central issues in the study of urban politics today is the fact that many cities have become multicultural arenas. The liberal viewpoint stresses the potential of the city—unlike other spaces—to offer many and equal opportunities for all residents regardless of religion, gender, or ethnic affiliation, but the critical body of knowledge highlights the ways in which the city, although apparently released from the shackles of nation- and …
Abusing Multiculturalism
The logic behind land allocation for residential purposes has undergone a dramatic shift in many states with a colonial legacy in the recent decade, from an ethnonational logic that favors the ethnonational majority to a more liberal-democratic, market-based logic that disregards ethnicity. In Israel, following this shift, a new claim for biased allocation has been voiced by the ethnonational majority, politicians, and administrators, which is ba…
Between urban and national
Gray local governance and Israeli Indigenous Bedouin
Public Housing as Control
This paper examines the relationship between inter-ethnic power relations and public housing policy for immigrants in Israel since 1948. Based on a comparative analysis of Israeli policy of housing Mizrahi immigrants in the 1950s and Russian immigrants in the 1990s, the paper argues that despite the perceived decline in the state's capacity, the implication of public housing policy has remained unchanged since the 1950s. By moving Jewish immigran…
Identity, Migration, and the City
This article deals with the way in which Russian immigrants identify with the Israeli national project, highlighting the process through which this identification occurs and its effect on the urban context. Our main argument is that this identification has arisen through interrelated processes including the ideology of the Israeli state and the history of settlement, the Russian social constructs of ethnicity and power, and local policies through…
The ethno-class trajectory of new neighborhoods in Israel
Mixed Cities in Israel Localities of Contentions
Symbolic Meanings and the Feasibility of Policy Images
This article is aimed at crafting an interpretive policy analysis as a predictive tool by using the proposal to relocate Israeli military bases. Since the mid‐2000s, the Israeli government has promoted a new plan to transfer military bases from urban areas and central regions to the southern metropolitan area in the Negev desert. The economic and operational logic behind the program is unclear and prompts serious debate about nationality, ethnici…
Frontieriphery
Grouping people into a geographical category of ‘peripherality’, based on positivist ontologies, conceals histories and policies of humiliation, marginalisation, and discrimination that forced communities away from access to material and cultural benefits. For this reason, we call for an anti-positivist ontological approach based on intersectional investigation, juxtaposing multi-variants of marginalised identities with multi-dimensional historie…
Temporal dynamics of contested local government among the Bedouin in Israel
Research on Indigenous local government has been overlooking the temporal perspective, particularly concerning the dynamics of controlling local government. We submit that long-term tension between up- and down-scaling predilections of the state versus an Indigenous group may produce such dynamics of control. This process is explored among the Israeli Indigenous Bedouin from their pre-state semi-nomadism to present day semi-urbanism. The dynamics…
Local autonomy and immigration
The paper examines the discretionary powers of Israeli local mayors in small peripheral towns under conditions of changing patterns of decentralisation and attempts to ascertain the contribution of national ideology, social structure and financial constraints in understanding the limits to these powers. Research on immigration policy-making generally focuses on the role of the state and of its institutions. Recently, as part of an underlying tren…
The Shifting Sands of Urban Politics, Planning And Identities
Between urban and national
Local autonomy and immigration
The paper examines the discretionary powers of Israeli local mayors in small peripheral towns under conditions of changing patterns of decentralisation and attempts to ascertain the contribution of national ideology, social structure and financial constraints in understanding the limits to these powers. Research on immigration policy-making generally focuses on the role of the state and of its institutions. Recently, as part of an underlying tren…
The ethno-class trajectory of new neighborhoods in Israel
Public Housing as Control
This paper examines the relationship between inter-ethnic power relations and public housing policy for immigrants in Israel since 1948. Based on a comparative analysis of Israeli policy of housing Mizrahi immigrants in the 1950s and Russian immigrants in the 1990s, the paper argues that despite the perceived decline in the state's capacity, the implication of public housing policy has remained unchanged since the 1950s. By moving Jewish immigran…
Identity, Migration, and the City
This article deals with the way in which Russian immigrants identify with the Israeli national project, highlighting the process through which this identification occurs and its effect on the urban context. Our main argument is that this identification has arisen through interrelated processes including the ideology of the Israeli state and the history of settlement, the Russian social constructs of ethnicity and power, and local policies through…
Israel since 1980
Over the last quarter century, a radical demographic, economic and political transformation has been taking place from within Israel. Israelis are beginning to ask some fundamental questions about the country they live in and what it means to be an Israeli. This book, written by five Israeli academics, probes the changing nature of Israeli society over the last twenty-five years. It considers the deep rifts in that society caused by ethnic, cultu…
Abusing Multiculturalism
The logic behind land allocation for residential purposes has undergone a dramatic shift in many states with a colonial legacy in the recent decade, from an ethnonational logic that favors the ethnonational majority to a more liberal-democratic, market-based logic that disregards ethnicity. In Israel, following this shift, a new claim for biased allocation has been voiced by the ethnonational majority, politicians, and administrators, which is ba…
Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and the Politics of the Israeli City
One of the central issues in the study of urban politics today is the fact that many cities have become multicultural arenas. The liberal viewpoint stresses the potential of the city—unlike other spaces—to offer many and equal opportunities for all residents regardless of religion, gender, or ethnic affiliation, but the critical body of knowledge highlights the ways in which the city, although apparently released from the shackles of nation- and …
Symbolic Meanings and the Feasibility of Policy Images
This article is aimed at crafting an interpretive policy analysis as a predictive tool by using the proposal to relocate Israeli military bases. Since the mid‐2000s, the Israeli government has promoted a new plan to transfer military bases from urban areas and central regions to the southern metropolitan area in the Negev desert. The economic and operational logic behind the program is unclear and prompts serious debate about nationality, ethnici…
Rethinking Israeli Space
© 2011 Erez Tzfadia and Haim Yacobi. This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities. The authors’ postcolonial approach deals with the notion of periphery and peripherality, covering issues of spatial protest, urban policy and urban planning.Discussing periphery as a political, social and spatial phenomenon and both a product and a process manufactured by power mechanisms, the authors show how …
Rethinking Israeli Space
This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities. The authors’ postcolonial approach deals with the notion of periphery and peripherality, covering issues of spatial protest, urban policy and urban planning. Discussing periphery as a political, social and spatial phenomenon and both a product and a process manufactured by power mechanisms, the authors show how the state, the regime of citizenship…
Mixed Cities in Israel Localities of Contentions
Neo-settler colonialism and the re-formation of territory
In this article we critically analyse the production of Israeli territory vis a vis the ongoing transformation of land and planning policies from ones based on pure nationalism to those purporting neo-liberal logic. Unlike the existing literature − including the most recent critical body of knowledge on planning, resource management and public policy in Israel − we contend that this transformation must be understood within the framework of settle…
Gray local governance and Israeli Indigenous Bedouin
Temporal dynamics of contested local government among the Bedouin in Israel
Research on Indigenous local government has been overlooking the temporal perspective, particularly concerning the dynamics of controlling local government. We submit that long-term tension between up- and down-scaling predilections of the state versus an Indigenous group may produce such dynamics of control. This process is explored among the Israeli Indigenous Bedouin from their pre-state semi-nomadism to present day semi-urbanism. The dynamics…
Frontieriphery
Grouping people into a geographical category of ‘peripherality’, based on positivist ontologies, conceals histories and policies of humiliation, marginalisation, and discrimination that forced communities away from access to material and cultural benefits. For this reason, we call for an anti-positivist ontological approach based on intersectional investigation, juxtaposing multi-variants of marginalised identities with multi-dimensional historie…
Displaceable! Precarious urban citizenship in Israel/Palestine
Under the shadow of unprecedented displacement and genocidal attack on Gaza, this article introduces the special issue dedicated to the ‘displaceability’ of urban citizenship. Centred on Israel/Palestine as a ‘laboratory’ of ‘southeastern’ urban governance under conditions of conflict, settler-colonialism, and neoliberal restructuring, the collection conceptualizes displaceability not simply as forced removal but as a chronic condition of contemp…
Displaced in place
Background Displaceability refers to the vulnerability to displacement, a condition often experienced by Indigenous communities in the context of state-led urban development. In Israel, the Palestinian-Bedouin community in the city of Rahat encounters such vulnerability as a result of settler-colonial dynamics and housing policies that, while aimed at easing housing shortages, often intensify this precarity. Purpose The study aims to explore how …
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Ethnic group (7 works)