Naama Blatman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2238941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naama Blatman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naama |
| FAMILY NAME | Blatman |
| SIGNATURE | BLATMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4523-0099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Caring for broken systems: Rethinking crisis with Indigenous relationality
Boom, bust, churn: Prison closure and prison expansion in New South Wales, Australia
This paper argues that rather than signalling contraction, prison closures can operate to restructure prison systems for further growth. Focusing on New South Wales (NSW), Australia, we analyse the closure and downsizing of four prisons in 2011–2012 and their relationship to a $3.8 billion prison construction programme launched just a few years later. We draw on Gilmore’s concept of the carceral ‘spatial fix’ to show how closures reorganised the …
Rail relations: Aboriginal storywork and remaking Australia's settler-colonial infrastructure
Australian railway histories are dominated by narratives of engineering triumphs, colonial expansion into empty land, and bringing civilisation and development through railway infrastructure. These settler-colonial stories can be read back on themselves as histories and geographies of Aboriginal dispossession and colonial possession. Indeed, Aboriginal people, lands, waterways, and cultures have always been implicated in railway infrastructures, …
Indigenous Urbanisms
Indigenous urbanism is an analytic and vital experience that captures everyday life and extreme moments of conflict in settler colonies. While highly localized, Indigenous urbanism/s are comparable across time and space. Delivered from different parts of the world, the essays in this collection highlight that Indigenous urbanism is politically, socially and culturally significant not only for Indigenous peoples in cities, but also for urban settl…
The Presence of the Absence: Indigenous Palestinian Urbanism in Israel
This essay puts forward a theoretical framework for Palestinian Indigenous urbanism. It argues that the specific and diverse expressions of this urbanism are partly an outcome of the fact that Palestinian cities-as a modern urban form-predate the Zionist settler colonization of Palestine. We centre the longue durée of Palestinian urbanism as a constitutive mode for contemporary experiences of Palestinian citizens in Israel and link it to Israel's…
Settler urban geographies of decommissioned prisons: An invitation to a discussion
As urban colonial prisons are becoming obsolete, cities must reckon with their enduring presence in landscapes that are continuously developing. Examining how decommissioned prisons are placed within urban development agendas in settler colonial cities, I consider the heritagisation of urban prisons as extractive; it captures and manipulates time through the juxtaposition of defunct carceral sites with the so-called “post” carceral city. This mov…
Indigenous urban life beyond city bounds: A more-than-urban approach
As I write this review, First Nations peoples in Canada are mobilising to support the Wet’suwet’en struggle against the construction of TransCanada’s 400-mile Coastal GasLink pipeline in their terr
Reciprocal Repossession: Property as Land in Urban Australia
Repossession of land by Indigenous people is commonly understood as a legal act that unfolds within the confines of state apparatuses. But for many Indigenous urbanites, legal repossession is both impossible and irrelevant due to their histories of dispossession and dislocation. Moreover, while land repossession in Australia is predominantly non‐urban, I demonstrate that land is also reclaimed within cities. Urban repossession of land, considered…
Placing Property: Theorizing the Urban from Settler Colonial Cities
In the conspicuously geographical debate between 'North' and 'South' urbanism, settler colonial cities remain displaced. They are located in the 'North' but embody 'South-like' colonial dynamics and are hence neither colonial nor postcolonial. Heeding the call to theorize from 'any city', this article aims to contribute to a more systematic theorization of the urban from settler colonial cities. In it we focus on the work property does to materia…
From transients to residents: Urban Indigeneity in Israel and Australia
Commuting for rights: Circular mobilities and regional identities of Palestinians in a Jewish-Israeli town
Placing Property: Theorizing the Urban from Settler Colonial Cities
In the conspicuously geographical debate between 'North' and 'South' urbanism, settler colonial cities remain displaced. They are located in the 'North' but embody 'South-like' colonial dynamics and are hence neither colonial nor postcolonial. Heeding the call to theorize from 'any city', this article aims to contribute to a more systematic theorization of the urban from settler colonial cities. In it we focus on the work property does to materia…
Commuting for rights: Circular mobilities and regional identities of Palestinians in a Jewish-Israeli town
Reciprocal Repossession: Property as Land in Urban Australia
Repossession of land by Indigenous people is commonly understood as a legal act that unfolds within the confines of state apparatuses. But for many Indigenous urbanites, legal repossession is both impossible and irrelevant due to their histories of dispossession and dislocation. Moreover, while land repossession in Australia is predominantly non‐urban, I demonstrate that land is also reclaimed within cities. Urban repossession of land, considered…
From transients to residents: Urban Indigeneity in Israel and Australia
The Presence of the Absence: Indigenous Palestinian Urbanism in Israel
This essay puts forward a theoretical framework for Palestinian Indigenous urbanism. It argues that the specific and diverse expressions of this urbanism are partly an outcome of the fact that Palestinian cities-as a modern urban form-predate the Zionist settler colonization of Palestine. We centre the longue durée of Palestinian urbanism as a constitutive mode for contemporary experiences of Palestinian citizens in Israel and link it to Israel's…
Rail relations: Aboriginal storywork and remaking Australia's settler-colonial infrastructure
Australian railway histories are dominated by narratives of engineering triumphs, colonial expansion into empty land, and bringing civilisation and development through railway infrastructure. These settler-colonial stories can be read back on themselves as histories and geographies of Aboriginal dispossession and colonial possession. Indeed, Aboriginal people, lands, waterways, and cultures have always been implicated in railway infrastructures, …
Indigenous Urbanisms
Indigenous urbanism is an analytic and vital experience that captures everyday life and extreme moments of conflict in settler colonies. While highly localized, Indigenous urbanism/s are comparable across time and space. Delivered from different parts of the world, the essays in this collection highlight that Indigenous urbanism is politically, socially and culturally significant not only for Indigenous peoples in cities, but also for urban settl…
Indigenous urban life beyond city bounds: A more-than-urban approach
As I write this review, First Nations peoples in Canada are mobilising to support the Wet’suwet’en struggle against the construction of TransCanada’s 400-mile Coastal GasLink pipeline in their terr
Commuting for rights: Circular mobilities and regional identities of Palestinians in a Jewish-Israeli town
From transients to residents: Urban Indigeneity in Israel and Australia
Reciprocal Repossession: Property as Land in Urban Australia
Repossession of land by Indigenous people is commonly understood as a legal act that unfolds within the confines of state apparatuses. But for many Indigenous urbanites, legal repossession is both impossible and irrelevant due to their histories of dispossession and dislocation. Moreover, while land repossession in Australia is predominantly non‐urban, I demonstrate that land is also reclaimed within cities. Urban repossession of land, considered…
Placing Property: Theorizing the Urban from Settler Colonial Cities
In the conspicuously geographical debate between 'North' and 'South' urbanism, settler colonial cities remain displaced. They are located in the 'North' but embody 'South-like' colonial dynamics and are hence neither colonial nor postcolonial. Heeding the call to theorize from 'any city', this article aims to contribute to a more systematic theorization of the urban from settler colonial cities. In it we focus on the work property does to materia…
Indigenous urban life beyond city bounds: A more-than-urban approach
As I write this review, First Nations peoples in Canada are mobilising to support the Wet’suwet’en struggle against the construction of TransCanada’s 400-mile Coastal GasLink pipeline in their terr
Settler urban geographies of decommissioned prisons: An invitation to a discussion
As urban colonial prisons are becoming obsolete, cities must reckon with their enduring presence in landscapes that are continuously developing. Examining how decommissioned prisons are placed within urban development agendas in settler colonial cities, I consider the heritagisation of urban prisons as extractive; it captures and manipulates time through the juxtaposition of defunct carceral sites with the so-called “post” carceral city. This mov…
Indigenous Urbanisms
Indigenous urbanism is an analytic and vital experience that captures everyday life and extreme moments of conflict in settler colonies. While highly localized, Indigenous urbanism/s are comparable across time and space. Delivered from different parts of the world, the essays in this collection highlight that Indigenous urbanism is politically, socially and culturally significant not only for Indigenous peoples in cities, but also for urban settl…
The Presence of the Absence: Indigenous Palestinian Urbanism in Israel
This essay puts forward a theoretical framework for Palestinian Indigenous urbanism. It argues that the specific and diverse expressions of this urbanism are partly an outcome of the fact that Palestinian cities-as a modern urban form-predate the Zionist settler colonization of Palestine. We centre the longue durée of Palestinian urbanism as a constitutive mode for contemporary experiences of Palestinian citizens in Israel and link it to Israel's…
Rail relations: Aboriginal storywork and remaking Australia's settler-colonial infrastructure
Australian railway histories are dominated by narratives of engineering triumphs, colonial expansion into empty land, and bringing civilisation and development through railway infrastructure. These settler-colonial stories can be read back on themselves as histories and geographies of Aboriginal dispossession and colonial possession. Indeed, Aboriginal people, lands, waterways, and cultures have always been implicated in railway infrastructures, …
Caring for broken systems: Rethinking crisis with Indigenous relationality
Boom, bust, churn: Prison closure and prison expansion in New South Wales, Australia
This paper argues that rather than signalling contraction, prison closures can operate to restructure prison systems for further growth. Focusing on New South Wales (NSW), Australia, we analyse the closure and downsizing of four prisons in 2011–2012 and their relationship to a $3.8 billion prison construction programme launched just a few years later. We draw on Gilmore’s concept of the carceral ‘spatial fix’ to show how closures reorganised the …
Geography (8 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Law (4 works)