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080917
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This article critically examines the role of architecture in the construction of national identity. Through critical analysis of architectural representations, I study the interrelations between the production of the architectural object and the practice of construction of Israeli national identity. The existing body of knowledge that supports this article claims that the creation of national identity is a socially constructed process which involves a variety of practices including education, music, and army service, as well as designing the built environment. It is important to note that the realization of such practices does not occur as a natural process, but rather as a result of power relations embodied within the national sphere
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080916
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2008.
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Palestine, Eretz-Israel, Israel, Terra Santa, The Holy Land, Philistines-all those names have been given to a stretch of land situated on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. This was, and still is, one of the most important pieces of land, which the world has been dealing with during the last two thousand years. The Arab-Israeli conflict, which has run for the last hundred years, is but the last in a series of long struggles, which dictate the history of that area. One of the main issues is the delimitation of Palestine, a process that began about 100 years ago but is far from complete. Understanding this process is the aim of this essay, which will present an historical review and an analytical view concerning the actors involved in the process and an overview dealing with the three eras of boundary making of Israel
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080914
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2008.
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The community of academic geographers in Israel is tiny compared to countries with which Israeli geographers have close contacts, with around half this small contingent-around 60 people in all over the past six decades-working in human geography. Nevertheless, they have authored well over 2,000 articles and books, not including technical reports and book reviews. Israeli human geography has constantly stressed a need to conduct applied research, a result of adopting a paradigm that views geography as a "practical" discipline and geographers as servants of the state. Though this has provided many Israeli human geographers with kudos, promoting geography with a problem-solving subject matter rather than as an academic branch of learning has not necessarily worked to the benefit of the discipline. In order to feed a voracious appetite for exposure to "real issues" of "importance" and "socially valuable" and "politically relevant" research, non-geographers are appropriating the discipline with the distinct possibility that departments of geography as we know them may self-destruct sooner rather than later
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080913
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080919
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080918
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080915
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