Contemporary state discourse and historical pastoral spatiality: Contradictions in the land conflict between the Israeli Bedouin and the State

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 823-843

  Meir, Avinoam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bedouin; Bedouin spatiality; Land ownership conflict; Mawat land; Othman Empire; State discourse

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; LAND USE CONFLICT; LANDOWNERSHIP; PASTORALISM; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 70449381324     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870801918755     Document Type: Article

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