Marco Allegra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Allegra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Allegra |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEGRA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7090-9549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Studentwashing: A New Territorial Strategy in Israel/Palestine
The suffix "washing" refers to the practice of portraying controversial actions in a positive light by leveraging progressive principles, often used by economic corporations, organizations, political parties, or governments. This paper introduces and develops the term "studentwashing" to define the deliberate effort to present Israeli territorial development as an attractive, youthful, and unique experience. This portrayal aims to engage larger s…
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area
Cova da Moura was established in the municipality of Amadora in the mid-1970s as a bairro clandestino (‘informal’ or ‘illegal neighbourhood’). Since then, it has grown into a community of thousands of residents; having escaped the large rehousing operations of the 1990s, Cova da Moura is today one of the few surviving bairros clandestinos in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, as well as a ‘distressed urban area’. In the four decades of its life, Co…
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring
The (hidden) role of the EU in housing policy: The Portuguese case in multi-scalar perspective
Doling (2006, A European Housing Policy? European Journal of Housing Policy, 6(3), 335–349. doi:10.1080/14616710600973169) characterized the intervention of the EU in the field of housing as a ‘stealth policy’, arguing that while the EU has no formal competence in this policy area, it has de facto conditioned national housing policies. This suggests that housing policy is a particularly interesting case for the study of formal and informal modes …
“It’s a great place for kids!”: The settlement of Ma’ale Adumim as a suburban safe space
The status of Jerusalem is almost universally regarded as the single most divisive issue in Israeli-Palestinian relations; and Israel’s settlement policy – and its territorial and demographic implications – is widely considered as the most significant “fact on the ground” established by Israel since 1967. We address these issues by observing how Israel’s settlement policy in the area of metropolitan Jerusalem transformed the material, symbolic an…
Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements
Colonizzazione per consenso: Ma'ale Adumim e la politica israeliana degli insediamenti
The exam of the events that brought about the creation of the first nucleus of the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim (1975) challenge some of the widespread stereotypes on Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank, as well as the conventional wisdom emerging from most scholarly contributions on the theme. The history of Ma’ale Adumim demonstrates how the proliferation of the settlements was the product of active cooperation between sectors of the Isr…
Planning in Turbulent Times: Exploring Planners' Agency in Jerusalem
This article explores the role of planning in the deeply divided and politically polarized context of Jerusalem. The overall argument developed throughout the article is that the relation between planning and politics is a non-hierarchical set of interactions, negotiated within specific historical, geographical, legal and cultural contexts-in other words, orders don't come down from the politicians to be slavishly followed by planners. In this re…
Wine-washing: Colonization, normalization, and the geopolitics of terroir in the West Bank's settlements
Terroir describes a set of special characteristics of a given place-geography, geology, climate, and human agricultural traditions-that incarnates in the unique taste of its products, usually wine. In contrast to modern perceptions of territory as an abstract legal-political entity, terroir invokes images of organic relations between people and a specific land with a unique 'character'. The paper will analyze the evolving discourse in the West Ba…
Dissecting Tahrir: Transduction, autogestion and liberal democracy
Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the ‘Arab Spring’
Throughout history, cities have been the theatre of social and spatial struggles. The issue of urban protests, however, has not yet been investigated in detail in the light of the growing concern of the need to rethink urban studies, from theoretical and epistemic assumptions, to methodological issues. It is argued that the mobilisation of urban dissent in the so-called Arab Spring offers a good opportunity to develop a critical approach based on…
The Politics of Suburbia: Israel's Settlement Policy and the Production of Space in the Metropolitan Area of Jerusalem
Israel's settlement policy in the West Bank represents a crucial issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Through the examination of a single case study-the planning history of the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adummim, located in the eastern periphery of the city-the paper addresses the complex nexus between planning and state-building practices; building on Henri Lefebvre's theory of space, he offers an account of the role of Israel's settlemen…
The Political Geographies of Urban Polarization: A Critical Review of Research on Divided Cities
This article aims at providing a review of various streams of literature dealing with the spatial fragmentation of cities. In the last two decades many different contributions emphasized the growing fragmentation of the urban environment; the idea of “divided city” covers a multiplicity of approaches, methodologies and field of research. Still, the “divided city” literature tends to elevate a small number of cities to paradigmatic examples and to…
Two States or Not Two States? Leadership and Peace Making in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
The debate around the viability of the so-called ‘Two-State Solution’ and the perspective of an alternative ‘One-State Solution’ began to attract renewed the attention after the collapse of the Oslo process. We suggest that instead of debating the viability of rival constitutional schemes, a more fruitful approach to the issue of peace making in Israel/Palestine should focus on the structural elements of the picture more than on future possible o…
Citizenship in Palestine: A Fractured Geography
This article deals with the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through an approach based on citizenship. The article considers the whole historical Palestine (Israel and the so-called Occupied Territories) as a unique unit of analysis, and suggests that the dynamics of citizenship in this area should be analysed through the exam of two fundamental dimensions, relating to membership and territory. In general, the example of the Israeli–Palestinian confl…
The Politics of Suburbia: Israel's Settlement Policy and the Production of Space in the Metropolitan Area of Jerusalem
Israel's settlement policy in the West Bank represents a crucial issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Through the examination of a single case study-the planning history of the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adummim, located in the eastern periphery of the city-the paper addresses the complex nexus between planning and state-building practices; building on Henri Lefebvre's theory of space, he offers an account of the role of Israel's settlemen…
Wine-washing: Colonization, normalization, and the geopolitics of terroir in the West Bank's settlements
Terroir describes a set of special characteristics of a given place-geography, geology, climate, and human agricultural traditions-that incarnates in the unique taste of its products, usually wine. In contrast to modern perceptions of territory as an abstract legal-political entity, terroir invokes images of organic relations between people and a specific land with a unique 'character'. The paper will analyze the evolving discourse in the West Ba…
Planning in Turbulent Times: Exploring Planners' Agency in Jerusalem
This article explores the role of planning in the deeply divided and politically polarized context of Jerusalem. The overall argument developed throughout the article is that the relation between planning and politics is a non-hierarchical set of interactions, negotiated within specific historical, geographical, legal and cultural contexts-in other words, orders don't come down from the politicians to be slavishly followed by planners. In this re…
Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the ‘Arab Spring’
Throughout history, cities have been the theatre of social and spatial struggles. The issue of urban protests, however, has not yet been investigated in detail in the light of the growing concern of the need to rethink urban studies, from theoretical and epistemic assumptions, to methodological issues. It is argued that the mobilisation of urban dissent in the so-called Arab Spring offers a good opportunity to develop a critical approach based on…
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring
Citizenship in Palestine: A Fractured Geography
This article deals with the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through an approach based on citizenship. The article considers the whole historical Palestine (Israel and the so-called Occupied Territories) as a unique unit of analysis, and suggests that the dynamics of citizenship in this area should be analysed through the exam of two fundamental dimensions, relating to membership and territory. In general, the example of the Israeli–Palestinian confl…
Colonizzazione per consenso: Ma'ale Adumim e la politica israeliana degli insediamenti
The exam of the events that brought about the creation of the first nucleus of the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim (1975) challenge some of the widespread stereotypes on Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank, as well as the conventional wisdom emerging from most scholarly contributions on the theme. The history of Ma’ale Adumim demonstrates how the proliferation of the settlements was the product of active cooperation between sectors of the Isr…
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area
Cova da Moura was established in the municipality of Amadora in the mid-1970s as a bairro clandestino (‘informal’ or ‘illegal neighbourhood’). Since then, it has grown into a community of thousands of residents; having escaped the large rehousing operations of the 1990s, Cova da Moura is today one of the few surviving bairros clandestinos in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, as well as a ‘distressed urban area’. In the four decades of its life, Co…
Two States or Not Two States? Leadership and Peace Making in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
The debate around the viability of the so-called ‘Two-State Solution’ and the perspective of an alternative ‘One-State Solution’ began to attract renewed the attention after the collapse of the Oslo process. We suggest that instead of debating the viability of rival constitutional schemes, a more fruitful approach to the issue of peace making in Israel/Palestine should focus on the structural elements of the picture more than on future possible o…
Citizenship in Palestine: A Fractured Geography
This article deals with the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through an approach based on citizenship. The article considers the whole historical Palestine (Israel and the so-called Occupied Territories) as a unique unit of analysis, and suggests that the dynamics of citizenship in this area should be analysed through the exam of two fundamental dimensions, relating to membership and territory. In general, the example of the Israeli–Palestinian confl…
Two States or Not Two States? Leadership and Peace Making in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
The debate around the viability of the so-called ‘Two-State Solution’ and the perspective of an alternative ‘One-State Solution’ began to attract renewed the attention after the collapse of the Oslo process. We suggest that instead of debating the viability of rival constitutional schemes, a more fruitful approach to the issue of peace making in Israel/Palestine should focus on the structural elements of the picture more than on future possible o…
The Political Geographies of Urban Polarization: A Critical Review of Research on Divided Cities
This article aims at providing a review of various streams of literature dealing with the spatial fragmentation of cities. In the last two decades many different contributions emphasized the growing fragmentation of the urban environment; the idea of “divided city” covers a multiplicity of approaches, methodologies and field of research. Still, the “divided city” literature tends to elevate a small number of cities to paradigmatic examples and to…
Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the ‘Arab Spring’
Throughout history, cities have been the theatre of social and spatial struggles. The issue of urban protests, however, has not yet been investigated in detail in the light of the growing concern of the need to rethink urban studies, from theoretical and epistemic assumptions, to methodological issues. It is argued that the mobilisation of urban dissent in the so-called Arab Spring offers a good opportunity to develop a critical approach based on…
The Politics of Suburbia: Israel's Settlement Policy and the Production of Space in the Metropolitan Area of Jerusalem
Israel's settlement policy in the West Bank represents a crucial issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Through the examination of a single case study-the planning history of the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adummim, located in the eastern periphery of the city-the paper addresses the complex nexus between planning and state-building practices; building on Henri Lefebvre's theory of space, he offers an account of the role of Israel's settlemen…
Dissecting Tahrir: Transduction, autogestion and liberal democracy
Wine-washing: Colonization, normalization, and the geopolitics of terroir in the West Bank's settlements
Terroir describes a set of special characteristics of a given place-geography, geology, climate, and human agricultural traditions-that incarnates in the unique taste of its products, usually wine. In contrast to modern perceptions of territory as an abstract legal-political entity, terroir invokes images of organic relations between people and a specific land with a unique 'character'. The paper will analyze the evolving discourse in the West Ba…
Planning in Turbulent Times: Exploring Planners' Agency in Jerusalem
This article explores the role of planning in the deeply divided and politically polarized context of Jerusalem. The overall argument developed throughout the article is that the relation between planning and politics is a non-hierarchical set of interactions, negotiated within specific historical, geographical, legal and cultural contexts-in other words, orders don't come down from the politicians to be slavishly followed by planners. In this re…
Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements
Colonizzazione per consenso: Ma'ale Adumim e la politica israeliana degli insediamenti
The exam of the events that brought about the creation of the first nucleus of the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim (1975) challenge some of the widespread stereotypes on Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank, as well as the conventional wisdom emerging from most scholarly contributions on the theme. The history of Ma’ale Adumim demonstrates how the proliferation of the settlements was the product of active cooperation between sectors of the Isr…
“It’s a great place for kids!”: The settlement of Ma’ale Adumim as a suburban safe space
The status of Jerusalem is almost universally regarded as the single most divisive issue in Israeli-Palestinian relations; and Israel’s settlement policy – and its territorial and demographic implications – is widely considered as the most significant “fact on the ground” established by Israel since 1967. We address these issues by observing how Israel’s settlement policy in the area of metropolitan Jerusalem transformed the material, symbolic an…
The (hidden) role of the EU in housing policy: The Portuguese case in multi-scalar perspective
Doling (2006, A European Housing Policy? European Journal of Housing Policy, 6(3), 335–349. doi:10.1080/14616710600973169) characterized the intervention of the EU in the field of housing as a ‘stealth policy’, arguing that while the EU has no formal competence in this policy area, it has de facto conditioned national housing policies. This suggests that housing policy is a particularly interesting case for the study of formal and informal modes …
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area
Cova da Moura was established in the municipality of Amadora in the mid-1970s as a bairro clandestino (‘informal’ or ‘illegal neighbourhood’). Since then, it has grown into a community of thousands of residents; having escaped the large rehousing operations of the 1990s, Cova da Moura is today one of the few surviving bairros clandestinos in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, as well as a ‘distressed urban area’. In the four decades of its life, Co…
Studentwashing: A New Territorial Strategy in Israel/Palestine
The suffix "washing" refers to the practice of portraying controversial actions in a positive light by leveraging progressive principles, often used by economic corporations, organizations, political parties, or governments. This paper introduces and develops the term "studentwashing" to define the deliberate effort to present Israeli territorial development as an attractive, youthful, and unique experience. This portrayal aims to engage larger s…
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (7 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Economics (5 works)