TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Spatial Transformation and Indigenous Resistance: The Urbanization of the Palestinian Bedouin in Southern Israel
JO  - American behavioral scientist
A1  - Abu-Saad, I.
SP  - 1713
EP  - 1754
VL  - 51
IS  - 12
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0002-7642
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764208318928
ID  - ref1
ER  -