The Powerful Role of Spatial Planning in Conflictual Zones: From Violent to Hopeful Urbanisms
Yosef Jabareen, Visiting Professor, Columbia University
Spatiality is a powerful intervention and manipulation of spaces and places. It is a praxis that embeds practices populated with political and social intentions. Thus, it has the power to produce new realities along a broad spectrum of binaries, such as trust/risk, hope/despair, and inclusion/exclusion.
Spatiality can imagine alternative spaces of trust, recognition, dignity, and tolerance. However, in some cases of deep conflict, such as in Israel/Palestine, when spatiality through the “professional” mask serves as an extension of military intervention, pretending to plan a “new world,” it becomes cruel, supremacist, unethical, and full of darkness.
Cosponsored by CSAMES (Center for South Asian and Middle East Studies) and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and Center for Global Studies.