Olivier Legrand

Brace C., Baily A. R. and Harvey D. C., 2006, Religion, place and space: a framework for investigating historical geographies of religious identities and communities, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.30 No1, pp28-43 Abstract: Despite a weel-established interest in the relationship between space and identity, geographers still know little about how communal identities in specific places are built around a sense of religious belonging. This paper explores both the theorical and practical terrain around which such investigation can proceed. The paper makes space for exploration of a specific set of religious groups anf practices, which reflected the activities of Methodists in Cornwall during the period 1830-1930. The paper is concerned to move analysis beyond the 'officially sacred' and to explore the everyday, informal, and often banal, practices of Methodists, thereby providing a blueprint for how work in the geography of religion may move forward. Kong (2001a:212) note that 'in […]

Yiftachel O. (2006), Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine, Pennsylvania Press, p.368   The analysis presented in this book is guided by a critical, materialist perspective, which emphasized the interdependence of geographical, economic, cultural, and political processes. The emphasis is on political geography and political economy as key pillars of shaping ethnic relations and politics. The approach draws inspiration from neo-Gramscian perspective (see Laclau and Mouffe 1985; Hall 1992; Lustick 1993), from related critical approaches (see Lefebvre 1991; Said 1992; I.M. Young 2002), and from critical analysts in the social science mainly in geography, political science, and urban studies (see Friedmann 2002; Harvey 2001; Marcuse and Van Kempen 2000; Samaddar 2000; Sibley 1995). p.6       « I define ethnocracy as a particular regime type, frequently found on the world political map but rarely studied by social scientists and geographers. This regime facilitates […]

Yiftachel O. (2006), Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine, Pennsylvania Press, p.368 This chapter focuses on Jerusalem/ al-Quds because this city is one of the main (if not the most critical) bones of contention between Zionist and Palestinians. The city also demonstrates starkly the political and physical consequences of the Israeli ethnocratic regime, providing ample examples of thing to come if the process of creeping apartheid outlined in previous chapters were to continue.     p.259-260   Within the above context, the city has been frequently described as the biggest obstacle for peace. It is commonly argued that Jews and Palestinians have been thoroughly missed in the urban geography created by Israeli occupation, which prevents the possibility of repartition. At the same time, equal coexistence is ruled out by Israel's ethnocratic policies, which continue to seek (illusionary) Jewish control over united Jerusalem. This necessitates ever increasing […]