Oded Haas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oded Haas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oded |
| FAMILY NAME | Haas |
| SIGNATURE | HAAS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9088-0731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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 …
De-colonising the right to housing, one new city at a time
The right to housing is generally understood as a local struggle against the global commodification of housing. While useful for recognising overarching urbanisation processes, such understanding risks washing over the distinctive politics that produce the housing crisis and its ostensible solutions in different contexts around the globe. Situated in a settler-colonial context, this paper bridges recent comparative urban studies with Indigenous n…
Interrupting planetary urbanization
This paper argues that the 'city' as a political entity is significant in struggles over the 'urban', by identifying two moments of 'differential urbanization' in the Middle East. Our study in Iran and Palestine/Israel shows that the vision of the 'city' as a legitimizing space for political citizenship is at the heart of conflicting imaginaries: in Iran, 'cities of revolution' built through housing the poor around Tehran, and redistributive poli…
Interrupting planetary urbanization
This paper argues that the 'city' as a political entity is significant in struggles over the 'urban', by identifying two moments of 'differential urbanization' in the Middle East. Our study in Iran and Palestine/Israel shows that the vision of the 'city' as a legitimizing space for political citizenship is at the heart of conflicting imaginaries: in Iran, 'cities of revolution' built through housing the poor around Tehran, and redistributive poli…
De-colonising the right to housing, one new city at a time
The right to housing is generally understood as a local struggle against the global commodification of housing. While useful for recognising overarching urbanisation processes, such understanding risks washing over the distinctive politics that produce the housing crisis and its ostensible solutions in different contexts around the globe. Situated in a settler-colonial context, this paper bridges recent comparative urban studies with Indigenous n…
Interrupting planetary urbanization
This paper argues that the 'city' as a political entity is significant in struggles over the 'urban', by identifying two moments of 'differential urbanization' in the Middle East. Our study in Iran and Palestine/Israel shows that the vision of the 'city' as a legitimizing space for political citizenship is at the heart of conflicting imaginaries: in Iran, 'cities of revolution' built through housing the poor around Tehran, and redistributive poli…
De-colonising the right to housing, one new city at a time
The right to housing is generally understood as a local struggle against the global commodification of housing. While useful for recognising overarching urbanisation processes, such understanding risks washing over the distinctive politics that produce the housing crisis and its ostensible solutions in different contexts around the globe. Situated in a settler-colonial context, this paper bridges recent comparative urban studies with Indigenous n…
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 …
Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Urbanization (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)