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Replacing Space with Time: 'Gray Spaces' in Israel/Palestine

  • 509 Knox Hall, Columbia University 606 West 122nd Street New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)

 Oren Yiftachel, Professor of Geography, Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. 

Moderated by Professor Yinon Cohen.

The lecture traces the legal geography of land policies in Israel/Palestine. It highlights the creation of 'gray spaces' as a key instrument of the ethnocratic state, and examines its ethnic, economic and political consequences.