Taming the road, tamed by the road

Sense of road as place among Indigenous Bedouin in an ethnic frontier in Israel

Bibliographic Data

ID21189640
AuthorsAvinoam Meir (0000-0001-6450-7407, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author), Arnon Ben Israel (Kaye Academic College of Education), Batya Roded (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Ibrahim Abu-Ajaj (Kaye Academic College of Education)
Year2019
Volume14
Issue2
Pages250-266
Publication date2019-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobilities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17450101.2019.1567987
OpenAlexW2912592099
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited39

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 spatiality, to tame the road into their informal mobility and make it a place, but following the upgrade their informal mobility has been tamed into formal state-regulated mobility, making the road a non-place

Archaeology · Economic geography · Ethnic group · Frontier · Geography · Indigenous · Sociology · Upgrade · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology

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