The Micro-Geography of a Home as a Contact Zone: Urban Planning in Fragmented Settler Colonialism

Tovi Fenster

doi:10.1080/14649357.2018.1500627

The Micro-Geography of a Home as a Contact Zone: Urban Planning in Fragmented Settler Colonialism

Tovi Fenster^*

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School of the Environment and Earth Sciences

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This paper provides an analysis of the micro-geography of the village of Lifta, Jerusalem, and the history of one particular home there, applying the archaeology of the address methodology. A new terminology of fragmented settler colonialism is used, in combination with the contact zone concept, to help better understand planning situations ‘after colonial times’. Introducing macro and micro scales of contact zones, the formal texts of the Lifta Regeneration Plan 6036 and the ensuing legal appeals submitted to the Israeli court are analyzed. By also studying the informal contact zone at the micro (address) level, the paradoxical relations between the Mizrahi and the Palestinians are exposed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	496-513
Number of pages	18
Journal	Planning Theory and Practice
Volume	19
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2018.1500627
State	Published - 8 Aug 2018

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Israel Science Foundation	ISF 855/14, 855/14

Keywords

(post) colonial planning
Jerusalem
Mizrahi Jews
Palestinians
contact zone
fragmented settler colonialism

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