Avinoam Meir
Biographic Data
| ID | 629309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avinoam Meir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avinoam |
| FAMILY NAME | Meir |
| SIGNATURE | MEIR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6450-7407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Ethnogeomorphology and landscape-as-place: Bridging physical, human, and GIS geographies in higher education
Whose city is it: The impact of an intentional community on the city-A case study from Israel
Urban geography suffers a considerable disciplinary deficiency in studying urban intentional communities (ICs). Particularly lacking, also in general social sciences, are studies on ICs' comprehensive impact on cities. The major reason for this might be a failure to realise that there are sub-city geographical entities which contribute to shaping cityscape, and that an intentional community is not only a social entity but also a geographical enti…
A Place Within a Place: Location Choice by Intentional Communities
The classic geographical question of choosing a location has received little attention in studies on urban intentional communities (ICs), despite ICs being, as we suggest, geographical entities. As a group of people organised under shared norms and goals, who reside together in a particular geographical space and are involved in frequent, intensive relationships, an IC requires a location (city or neighbourhood) that is commensurate with its goal…
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…
Scale, Landscape and Indigenous Bedouin Land Use: Spatial Order and Agricultural sedentarisation in the Negev Highland
By taking a small-scale perspective, Bedouin pastoral space in the Israeli Negev in the modern period has been misinterpreted as chaotic by various Israeli institutions. In critiquing this ontology we suggest that a knowledge gap with regard to an appropriate scale of understanding Bedouin settlement patterns and mechanisms of sedentarisation is at its root, and that a larger-scale analysis indicates that their space is in fact highly ordered. Fi…
Janus-faced mobility, sense of road-as-place and Indigenous Bedouin-Jewish settlers relationships
As any other locality a road is a place with sense of road as place among people experiencing it. Roads in peripheral areas are a scarce social resource over which people compete. When a periphery is an internal ethnic frontier, competition between the local/Indigenous people and the settlers over accessibility/connectivity afforded by a road reflects not only hegemonic cultural and identity differences but also contradicting spatiality temporali…
Taming the road, tamed by the road: Sense of road as place among Indigenous Bedouin in an ethnic frontier in Israel
We propose the concept ‘sense of road as place’ for an Indigenous group within an ethnic frontier, specifically in the case of the Israeli Bedouin. A road in this spatial context carries far greater meanings than elsewhere, particularly when also impacted by power relationships with the state. We reveal how Road 31 was/is subjectified by the Bedouin as a place prior to and after an upgrade. Initially they were able, through their Indigenous spati…
Ethnic Frontiers and Peripheries: Landscapes of Development and Inequality in Israel
Formalizing infrastructures, civic networks and production of space: Bedouin informal settlements in Be'er-Sheva metropolis
As Nomadism Ends: The Israeli Bedouin of the Negev
As pastoral nomads become settled, they face social, spatial, and ecological change in the shift from herding to farming, toward integration into the market economy. This book analyzes the socio-spatial changes that follow the end of nomadism, especially in the unique case of the Bedouin of the Negev. The culture of the Negev Bedouin stands in shar
Gray local governance and Israeli Indigenous Bedouin: Credibility, functionality and the politics of refusal
Spatial constraints, environmental hazards and Bedouin in Israel: Towards spatial conceptualization of a changing Indigenous society
Modeling the Contribution of Existing and Potential Measures to Urban Sustainability Using the Urban Biophysical Sustainability Index (Ubsi)
Production of space, intercultural encounters and politics: Dynamics of consummate space and spatial intensity among the Israeli Bedouin
The “spatial turn”, represented primarily by the Lefebvrean theory of production of space, fails to internalise insights from the “cultural turn” which delves into high cultural resolutions of minority ethnic or religious sub‐groups within Western culture. These insights suggest that space may be characterised by spatial pluralism that originates in ontological pluralism of place and space. This ontological pluralism originates in the contemporar…
Measuring the biophysical dimension of urban sustainability
A multi-spatial scale approach to urban sustainability – An illustration of the domestic and global hinterlands of the city of Beer-Sheva
From congruent to non-congruent spaces: Dynamics of Bedouin production of space in Israel
The Production of Space: A Neglected Perspective in Pastoral Research
This paper offers an overview of the dispersed elements of social spatiality present in the rich work about pastoralists and their space, and brings them together under the conceptual framework of Lefebvre's production of space. The three facets of pastorally produced space are outlined: 'perceived space', low-intensity spatial footprints linked by seasonal migratory trails; 'conceived space', social territoriality and agrarian socialism; and 'li…
Gendered space, power relationships and domestic planning and design among displaced Israeli Bedouin
Contemporary state discourse and historical pastoral spatiality: Contradictions in the land conflict between the Israeli Bedouin and the State
Israeli State discourse of Bedouin land, as State-land, manifested in court litigations, planning practices and development policies, is anchored in the mawat category of the 1858 Othman Land Law. It is refuted when confronted with Bedouin spatiality in the nineteenth century in terms of farming, settlements and land ownership. This alternative discourse may serve the Bedouin as a tool for struggle in the land conflict. It carries a potential for…
Ethnic Business Entrepreneurship among Urbanising Bedouin in the Negev, Israel
The Bedouin of the Negev in Israel have been forced by the State to give up their agro-pastoral mode of subsistence, but were not offered any meaningful economic alternatives. Business has become one significant option. It is regarded here as 'ethnic entrepreneurship', as many traditional cultural and social traits are employed by them to survive within an entrepreneurial business environment that is highly constrained both externally and interna…
Ethnic Business Entrepreneurship among Urbanising Bedouin in the Negev, Israel
The Bedouin of the Negev in Israel have been forced by the State to give up their agro-pastoral mode of subsistence, but were not offered any meaningful economic alternatives. Business has become one significant option. It is regarded here as 'ethnic entrepreneurship', as many traditional cultural and social traits are employed by them to survive within an entrepreneurial business environment that is highly constrained both externally and interna…
Bedouin, the Israeli state and insurgent planning: Globalization, localization or glocalization
Religiosity, nationalism and fertility in Israel
International borders and range ecology: The case of Bedouin transborder grazing
Bedouin, the Israeli state and insurgent planning: Globalization, localization or glocalization
Ethnic Frontiers and Peripheries: Landscapes of Development and Inequality in Israel
Contemporary state discourse and historical pastoral spatiality: Contradictions in the land conflict between the Israeli Bedouin and the State
Israeli State discourse of Bedouin land, as State-land, manifested in court litigations, planning practices and development policies, is anchored in the mawat category of the 1858 Othman Land Law. It is refuted when confronted with Bedouin spatiality in the nineteenth century in terms of farming, settlements and land ownership. This alternative discourse may serve the Bedouin as a tool for struggle in the land conflict. It carries a potential for…
Religiosity, nationalism and fertility in Israel
Demographic Transition Theory: A Neglected Aspect of the Nomadism-Sedentarism Continuum
This paper proposes an adaptation of demographic transition theory to the nomadism-sedentarism continuum. It is argued that a change along this continuum implies a change in the mode of production, which in turn entails changes in fertility and mortality. The following hypotheses are set forth: 1) at the pastoral phase of a nomadic society, fertility is relatively low and mortality is relatively high, yielding a low rate of natural increase; 2) a…
Pastoral Nomads and the Dialectics of Development and Modernization: Delivering Public Educational Services to the Israeli Negev Bedouin
Pastoral nomads in Africa and the Middle East have recently come under intensifying contacts with governments through processes of sedentarization and social modernization. The dialectics of these processes have the capacity to make nomads dependent upon public goods, thus equipping governments with manipulative tools to bring nomads under political control. A major tool in this regard has been the delivery of public educational services. This pa…
Production of space, intercultural encounters and politics: Dynamics of consummate space and spatial intensity among the Israeli Bedouin
The “spatial turn”, represented primarily by the Lefebvrean theory of production of space, fails to internalise insights from the “cultural turn” which delves into high cultural resolutions of minority ethnic or religious sub‐groups within Western culture. These insights suggest that space may be characterised by spatial pluralism that originates in ontological pluralism of place and space. This ontological pluralism originates in the contemporar…
Gray local governance and Israeli Indigenous Bedouin: Credibility, functionality and the politics of refusal
From congruent to non-congruent spaces: Dynamics of Bedouin production of space in Israel
Formalizing infrastructures, civic networks and production of space: Bedouin informal settlements in Be'er-Sheva metropolis
The Production of Space: A Neglected Perspective in Pastoral Research
This paper offers an overview of the dispersed elements of social spatiality present in the rich work about pastoralists and their space, and brings them together under the conceptual framework of Lefebvre's production of space. The three facets of pastorally produced space are outlined: 'perceived space', low-intensity spatial footprints linked by seasonal migratory trails; 'conceived space', social territoriality and agrarian socialism; and 'li…
Scale, Landscape and Indigenous Bedouin Land Use: Spatial Order and Agricultural sedentarisation in the Negev Highland
By taking a small-scale perspective, Bedouin pastoral space in the Israeli Negev in the modern period has been misinterpreted as chaotic by various Israeli institutions. In critiquing this ontology we suggest that a knowledge gap with regard to an appropriate scale of understanding Bedouin settlement patterns and mechanisms of sedentarisation is at its root, and that a larger-scale analysis indicates that their space is in fact highly ordered. Fi…
Gendered space, power relationships and domestic planning and design among displaced Israeli Bedouin
A spatial-humanistic perspective of innovation diffusion processes
Spatial constraints, environmental hazards and Bedouin in Israel: Towards spatial conceptualization of a changing Indigenous society
International borders and range ecology: The case of Bedouin transborder grazing
Atlas of the Negev
Nomads, Development and Health: Delivering Public Health Services to the Bedouin in Israel
Provision of public health services to pastoral nomadic societies has been a difficult task for governments. Is- sues of availability, accessibility, and compatibility of these ser- vices to nomads have in recent years become important in de- bates on development of these societies. Such issues become reinforced when nomads sedentarize and undergo processes of social modernization. Sedentarization of the Israeli Bedouin, al- though exposing them …
Ethnic Business Entrepreneurship among Urbanising Bedouin in the Negev, Israel
The Bedouin of the Negev in Israel have been forced by the State to give up their agro-pastoral mode of subsistence, but were not offered any meaningful economic alternatives. Business has become one significant option. It is regarded here as 'ethnic entrepreneurship', as many traditional cultural and social traits are employed by them to survive within an entrepreneurial business environment that is highly constrained both externally and interna…
Innovation diffusion and regional economic development: The spatial diffusion of automobiles in Ohio
Meir A. (1981) Innovation diffusion and regional economic development: the spatial diffusion of automobiles in Ohio, Reg. Studies 15, 111–122. Regional development is considered both as a prerequisite for, and an outcome of, a growth-inducing innovation diffusion process. Regional prerequisites are divided into internal ones, signifying degree of economic development, and external ones, signifying degree of exposure to information about the innov…
Ethnogeomorphology and landscape-as-place: Bridging physical, human, and GIS geographies in higher education
Whose city is it: The impact of an intentional community on the city-A case study from Israel
Urban geography suffers a considerable disciplinary deficiency in studying urban intentional communities (ICs). Particularly lacking, also in general social sciences, are studies on ICs' comprehensive impact on cities. The major reason for this might be a failure to realise that there are sub-city geographical entities which contribute to shaping cityscape, and that an intentional community is not only a social entity but also a geographical enti…
A Place Within a Place: Location Choice by Intentional Communities
The classic geographical question of choosing a location has received little attention in studies on urban intentional communities (ICs), despite ICs being, as we suggest, geographical entities. As a group of people organised under shared norms and goals, who reside together in a particular geographical space and are involved in frequent, intensive relationships, an IC requires a location (city or neighbourhood) that is commensurate with its goal…
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…
As Nomadism Ends: The Israeli Bedouin of the Negev
As pastoral nomads become settled, they face social, spatial, and ecological change in the shift from herding to farming, toward integration into the market economy. This book analyzes the socio-spatial changes that follow the end of nomadism, especially in the unique case of the Bedouin of the Negev. The culture of the Negev Bedouin stands in shar
Innovation diffusion and regional economic development: The spatial diffusion of automobiles in Ohio
Meir A. (1981) Innovation diffusion and regional economic development: the spatial diffusion of automobiles in Ohio, Reg. Studies 15, 111–122. Regional development is considered both as a prerequisite for, and an outcome of, a growth-inducing innovation diffusion process. Regional prerequisites are divided into internal ones, signifying degree of economic development, and external ones, signifying degree of exposure to information about the innov…
A spatial-humanistic perspective of innovation diffusion processes
A Commercial‐blight Perspective on Metropolitan Commercial Structure
More and more attention is being paid to issues associated with urban decline. Many types of decline affecting different locations and functional usages in the city have been identified, including ‘deterioration’ (Simmons, 1966), ‘decay’ (Medhurst and Parry Lewis, 1969), ‘stagnation’ (Alexander, 1974), ‘dereliction’ (Bugler, 1972), ‘obsolescence’ (Davies and Whinston, 1966), and ‘blight’ (Berry, 1963;McKean, 1977). This list, although not exhaust…
Demographic transition among the Negev Beduin in Israel and its planning implications
Demographic Transition Theory: A Neglected Aspect of the Nomadism-Sedentarism Continuum
This paper proposes an adaptation of demographic transition theory to the nomadism-sedentarism continuum. It is argued that a change along this continuum implies a change in the mode of production, which in turn entails changes in fertility and mortality. The following hypotheses are set forth: 1) at the pastoral phase of a nomadic society, fertility is relatively low and mortality is relatively high, yielding a low rate of natural increase; 2) a…
Pastoral Nomads and the Dialectics of Development and Modernization: Delivering Public Educational Services to the Israeli Negev Bedouin
Pastoral nomads in Africa and the Middle East have recently come under intensifying contacts with governments through processes of sedentarization and social modernization. The dialectics of these processes have the capacity to make nomads dependent upon public goods, thus equipping governments with manipulative tools to bring nomads under political control. A major tool in this regard has been the delivery of public educational services. This pa…
Comparative vital statistics along the pastoral nomadism-sedentarism continuum
Nomads, Development and Health: Delivering Public Health Services to the Bedouin in Israel
Provision of public health services to pastoral nomadic societies has been a difficult task for governments. Is- sues of availability, accessibility, and compatibility of these ser- vices to nomads have in recent years become important in de- bates on development of these societies. Such issues become reinforced when nomads sedentarize and undergo processes of social modernization. Sedentarization of the Israeli Bedouin, al- though exposing them …
Atlas of the Negev
Provision of Public Services to the Post-Nomadic Bedouin Society in Israel
Bedouin nomads in southern Israel have been sedentarising and semi-urbanising in recent decades. During this process, they have become part of a public service provision system. This is a unique process as usually nomads rely on internal resources for attaining the goals of these services, whereas here they are obliged to use external resources. Such a process, therefore, is bound to be a conflictual one with many barriers. An analysis of provisi…
A disparity-based diffusion approach to analysis of mortality decline
The process of mortality decline can be described as a spatial process of "grand innovation" diffusion, whereby the "grand innovation" spreads over space. The central notion is that, during that diffusion process, the spatial system moves from high to low mortality rates, and that this process can be described through the concept of spatial disparities in crude mortality rates. The process operates in both the temporal and spatial dimensions. The…
Socio‐economic Development and the Dynamics of Child Mortality Among Sedentarizing Bedouin in Israel
The authors analyze trends in child mortality among the Bedouin in Israel, who are in the process of changing from a nomadic to a sedentary way of life. "At early stages of sedentarization and development, child mortality rates decline, as expected, then rise, only to decline again. The positive relationship that is theoretically assumed to exist in general between declining child mortality and socio-economic development over time and space may t…
Religiosity, nationalism and fertility in Israel
International borders and range ecology: The case of Bedouin transborder grazing
Bedouin, the Israeli state and insurgent planning: Globalization, localization or glocalization
Ethnic Business Entrepreneurship among Urbanising Bedouin in the Negev, Israel
The Bedouin of the Negev in Israel have been forced by the State to give up their agro-pastoral mode of subsistence, but were not offered any meaningful economic alternatives. Business has become one significant option. It is regarded here as 'ethnic entrepreneurship', as many traditional cultural and social traits are employed by them to survive within an entrepreneurial business environment that is highly constrained both externally and interna…
Ethnic Business Entrepreneurship among Urbanising Bedouin in the Negev, Israel
The Bedouin of the Negev in Israel have been forced by the State to give up their agro-pastoral mode of subsistence, but were not offered any meaningful economic alternatives. Business has become one significant option. It is regarded here as 'ethnic entrepreneurship', as many traditional cultural and social traits are employed by them to survive within an entrepreneurial business environment that is highly constrained both externally and interna…
Contemporary state discourse and historical pastoral spatiality: Contradictions in the land conflict between the Israeli Bedouin and the State
Israeli State discourse of Bedouin land, as State-land, manifested in court litigations, planning practices and development policies, is anchored in the mawat category of the 1858 Othman Land Law. It is refuted when confronted with Bedouin spatiality in the nineteenth century in terms of farming, settlements and land ownership. This alternative discourse may serve the Bedouin as a tool for struggle in the land conflict. It carries a potential for…
Gendered space, power relationships and domestic planning and design among displaced Israeli Bedouin
The Production of Space: A Neglected Perspective in Pastoral Research
This paper offers an overview of the dispersed elements of social spatiality present in the rich work about pastoralists and their space, and brings them together under the conceptual framework of Lefebvre's production of space. The three facets of pastorally produced space are outlined: 'perceived space', low-intensity spatial footprints linked by seasonal migratory trails; 'conceived space', social territoriality and agrarian socialism; and 'li…
A multi-spatial scale approach to urban sustainability – An illustration of the domestic and global hinterlands of the city of Beer-Sheva
From congruent to non-congruent spaces: Dynamics of Bedouin production of space in Israel
Measuring the biophysical dimension of urban sustainability
Modeling the Contribution of Existing and Potential Measures to Urban Sustainability Using the Urban Biophysical Sustainability Index (Ubsi)
Production of space, intercultural encounters and politics: Dynamics of consummate space and spatial intensity among the Israeli Bedouin
The “spatial turn”, represented primarily by the Lefebvrean theory of production of space, fails to internalise insights from the “cultural turn” which delves into high cultural resolutions of minority ethnic or religious sub‐groups within Western culture. These insights suggest that space may be characterised by spatial pluralism that originates in ontological pluralism of place and space. This ontological pluralism originates in the contemporar…
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