@article{ref1,
title="Spatial Transformation and Indigenous Resistance: The Urbanization of the Palestinian Bedouin in Southern Israel",
journal="American behavioral scientist",
year="2008",
author="Abu-Saad, I.",
volume="51",
number="12",
pages="1713-1754",
abstract="Indigenous peoples share a history of exclusion from the dominant society decision-making processes that directly affect them, including their displacement and relocation, development initiatives, and the process of urbanization. This article begins with a review of indigenous experiences of and responses to urbanization in a number of nation-states throughout the world. It then examines the experience of the indigenous Palestinian Bedouin community in southern Israel, whose traditional lifestyle of land-based seminomadic pastoralism is being replaced by landless, labor force, government-planned urbanization. Issues of key importance to that process are explored, including the historical political context and state-indigenous relations, the conflict over land, and the settler-colonial vision inherent in the conceptualization and implementation of the urban models. Finally, Bedouin responses and resistance to the government's urbanization program are discussed.<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-7642",
doi="10.1177/0002764208318928",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764208318928"
}