Mapping Israel Mapping Palestine

Author : Jess Bier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262036153

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Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine by Jess Bier Pdf

Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things. Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But in Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, Jess Bier challenges the view that digital maps are universal and value-free. She examines the ways that maps are made in Palestine and Israel to show how social and political landscapes shape the practice of science and technology. How can two scientific cartographers look at the same geographic feature and see fundamentally different things? In part, Bier argues, because knowledge about the Israeli military occupation is shaped by the occupation itself. Ongoing injustices—including checkpoints, roadblocks, and summary arrests—mean that Palestinian and Israeli cartographers have different experiences of the landscape. Palestinian forms of empirical knowledge, including maps, continue to be discounted. Bier examines three representative cases of population, governance, and urban maps. She analyzes Israeli population maps from 1967 to 1995, when Palestinian areas were left blank; Palestinian state maps of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which were influenced by Israeli raids on Palestinian offices and the legacy of British colonial maps; and urban maps after the Second Intifada, which show how segregated observers produce dramatically different maps of the same area. The geographic production of knowledge, including what and who are considered scientifically legitimate, can change across space and time. Bier argues that greater attention to these changes, and to related issues of power, will open up more heterogeneous ways of engaging with the world.

Author : Christine Leuenberger,Izhak Schnell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190076238

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The Politics of Maps by Christine Leuenberger,Izhak Schnell Pdf

"This book traces how the geographical sciences have become entwined with politics, territorial claim making, and nation-building in Israel/Palestine. In particular, the focus is on the history of geographical sciences before and after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and how surveying, mapping, and naming the new territory become a crucial part of its making. With the 1993 Oslo Interim Agreement, Palestinians also surveyed and mapped the territory allocated to a future State of Palestine, with the expectation that they will, within five years, gain full sovereignty. In both cases, maps served to evoke a sense of national identity, facilitated a state's ability to govern, and helped delineate territory. Besides maps geopolitical functions for nation-state building, they also become weapons in map wars. Before and after the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, maps of the region became one of the many battlefields in which political conflicts over land claims and the ethno-national identity of this contested land were being waged. Aided by an increasingly user-defined mapping environment, Israeli and Palestinian governmental and non-governmental organizations increasingly relied on the rhetoric of maps in order to put forth their geopolitical visions. Such struggles over land and its rightful owners in Israel/Palestine exemplify processes underway in other states across the globe, whether in South Africa or Ukraine, which are engaged in disputes over territorial boundaries, national identities, and the territorial integrity of nation-states. Maps, no less, have become crucial tools in these struggles"--

Author : Malkit Shoshan
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 9789064506888

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Atlas of the Conflict by Malkit Shoshan Pdf

This atlas of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict maps the processes and mechanisms behind the modification of the country during the last 100 years both on a policy level and in its physical implementation on the ground. Alongside providing an indispensable reference book on the specificities of the conflict, the atlas also provides lessons on a broader front, particularly in connection with disputes over former colonial territories and natural resources. Illustrated throughout with full-colour illustrations, maps and diagrams.

Author : Bruno Schelhaas,Jutta Faehndrich,Haim Goren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857729835

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Mapping the Holy Land by Bruno Schelhaas,Jutta Faehndrich,Haim Goren Pdf

Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the formative period of its development. Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology – the authors explore the complex cultural, cartographic and technical processes that shaped and determined the resulting maps of the region. Making full use of newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, Mapping the Holy Land is essential reading for cartographers, historical geographers, historians of mapmaking, and for all those with an interest in the Holy Land and the history of Palestine.

Author : Bruno Schelhaas,Jutta Faehndrich,Haim Goren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857727855

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Mapping the Holy Land by Bruno Schelhaas,Jutta Faehndrich,Haim Goren Pdf

Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology - the authors explore the complex cultural, cartographic and technical processes that shaped and determined the resulting maps of the region. Making full use of newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, Mapping the Holy Land is essential reading for cartographers, historical geographers, historians of mapmaking, and for all those with an interest in the Holy Land and the history of Palestine.

Author : Salman Abu Sitta,Salman H. Abu-Sitta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789774167300

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Mapping My Return by Salman Abu Sitta,Salman H. Abu-Sitta Pdf

Refugees, Palestinian Arab; biography.

Author : Tanya Reinhart
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789602517

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The Road Map to Nowhere by Tanya Reinhart Pdf

The Road Map to Nowhere is a devastating and timely book, essential to understanding the current state of the Israel/Palestine crisis and the propaganda that infects its coverage. Based on analysis of information in the mainstream Israeli media, it argues that the current road map has brought no real progress and that, under cover of diplomatic successes, Israel is using the road map to strengthen its grip on the remaining occupied territories. Exploring the Gaza pullout of 2005, the West Bank wall and the collapse of Israeli democracy, Reinhart examines the gap between myth the Israeli leadership's public affairs achievement that has led the West to believe that a road map is in fact being implementedand bitter reality. Not only has nothing fundamentally changed, she argues, but the Palestinians continue to lose more of their land and are pushed into smaller and smaller enclaves, surrounded by the new wall constructed by Sharon.

Author : Jess Bier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262339964

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Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine by Jess Bier Pdf

Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things. Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But in Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, Jess Bier challenges the view that digital maps are universal and value-free. She examines the ways that maps are made in Palestine and Israel to show how social and political landscapes shape the practice of science and technology. How can two scientific cartographers look at the same geographic feature and see fundamentally different things? In part, Bier argues, because knowledge about the Israeli military occupation is shaped by the occupation itself. Ongoing injustices—including checkpoints, roadblocks, and summary arrests—mean that Palestinian and Israeli cartographers have different experiences of the landscape. Palestinian forms of empirical knowledge, including maps, continue to be discounted. Bier examines three representative cases of population, governance, and urban maps. She analyzes Israeli population maps from 1967 to 1995, when Palestinian areas were left blank; Palestinian state maps of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which were influenced by Israeli raids on Palestinian offices and the legacy of British colonial maps; and urban maps after the Second Intifada, which show how segregated observers produce dramatically different maps of the same area. The geographic production of knowledge, including what and who are considered scientifically legitimate, can change across space and time. Bier argues that greater attention to these changes, and to related issues of power, will open up more heterogeneous ways of engaging with the world.

Author : PASSIA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : UOM:39015060851311

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The Palestine Question in Maps, 1878-2002 by PASSIA Pdf

Author : Haim Srebro,Ron Adler,Dov Gavish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cartography
ISBN : NYPL:33433080162484

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60 Years of Surveying and Mapping Israel, 1948-2008 by Haim Srebro,Ron Adler,Dov Gavish Pdf

Author : Dennis Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0374708088

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The Missing Peace by Dennis Ross Pdf

"The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players."--Bill Clinton The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account of the Middle East peace process ever written. Dennis Ross, the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is that rare figure who is respected by all parties: Democrats and Republicans, Palestinians and Israelis, presidents and people on the street in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Washington, D.C. Ross recounts the peace process in detail from 1988 to the breakdown of talks in early 2001 that prompted the so-called second Intifada-and takes account of recent developments in a new afterword written for this edition. It's all here: Camp David, Oslo, Geneva, Egypt, and other summits; the assassination of Yitzak Rabin; the rise and fall of Benjamin Netanyahu; the very different characters and strategies of Rabin, Yasir Arafat, and Bill Clinton; and the first steps of the Palestinian Authority. For the first time, the backroom negotiations, the dramatic and often secretive nature of the process, and the reasons for its faltering are on display for all to see. The Missing Peace explains, as no other book has, why Middle East peace remains so elusive.

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000120487222

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict by Martin Gilbert Pdf

The history of Arab-Jewish conflict from the turn of the century to the present day.

Author : Frederic C. Hof
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : UOM:39015075668437

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Mapping Peace Between Syria and Israel by Frederic C. Hof Pdf

A peaceful solution between Syria and Israel may facilitate peace between a Palestinian state and Israel.

Author : Dr. Mark O'Doherty
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781312022447

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Map for Realization of Peace between Palestine and Israel - An evidence based qualitative research study, including articles by various authors on the Arab/Israeli conflict by Dr. Mark O'Doherty Pdf

This book contains an evidence based qualitative research study, as well as articles by various authors on the Arab/Israeli conflict. As a result of this research, criteria for a 'Map for Peace' from the perspective of Israeli and Palestinian people was derived. One of the findings of the study is, that there is uncertainty _ and even some confusion _ regarding what social-interaction-roles Israelis and Palestinians would like to have when communicating with each other. These and other factors make it difficult for Israeli and Palestinian people to find common ground, and to break the cycle of violence. According to this evidence based study, Peace Building in the form of psycho-social counseling, problem-solving workshops, community work and pedagogic counseling for young persons and adults is necessary, to manifest the elusive win-win situation in this region.

Author : Valentina Carraro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811633140

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Jerusalem Online by Valentina Carraro Pdf

The book addresses the rapid shifts which have taken place within cartography, and argues that no amount of technological sophistication will lead to neutral representations, and that as such critical cartography provides a solid foundation for questioning the power of maps. It considers the fragmentation, dynamism and opacity that characterise online maps, and argues for the need of new ways of thinking and researching maps. The book offers an approach grounded in ‘ontological’ social theory and feminist technoscience, and illustrates it through the analysis of three Jerusalem-related mapping controversies. Using online media, historical maps and ethnographic work, each case study explores a different map provider and a recent mapping development: Google Maps and the distributed authorship of web-maps; Waze and algorithmic navigation; OpenStreetMap and crowdsourcing. The book is a key read to faculty and advanced students in Urban Studies and Critical Cartography. It will particularly appeal to those working in the digital geographies