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Historical and sociological approaches to understanding Palestinian cities have developed in the shadows of a geopolitical conflict; this conflict has in turn conditioned a specific discursive order. Israeli rule, dictating its own modes of knowledge and power, dominates such analyses through the militarization of space—like the recent construction of the so-called “security fence”—and its effacement of the Palestinian landscape. Analytical understandings of Palestinian cities are thus born into a performing political geography that is blind to the intrinsic characteristics of the land, its temporalities, its social rhythms, and its urban history.
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Bulle, S. (2006). Between War and Peace. In: Misselwitz, P., Rieniets, T., Efrat, Z., Khamaisi, R., Nasrallah, R. (eds) City of Collision. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7868-9_30
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