Murdoch University
The Krishna Somers Foundation presents the year’s fifth event, a lecture by Professor Oren Yiftachel, currently a Visiting Professor at Curtin University. As usual excellent wine (and orange juice) will be available.
When: Monday April 23 4.30 PM
Where: Education and Humanities 3.041
Title: Immigration, space and identity politics in Israel/Palestine:
reflections on 'ethnocratic' multiculturalism
The lecture will trace the process of immigration and settlement in Israel/Palestine and the impact of ethnic politics on the reshaping of collective identities, as indigenous, globalized or diasporized communities. It will focus on the dynamics of the colonial 'ethnocratic' regime developed in Israel/Palestine which has strongly determined patterns of immigration development and ghettoization. The lecture will draw brief parallels to the Australian situation and comment on the future of multiculturalism as a policy direction in ethnically divided societies.
Prof. Oren Yiftachel of Ben-Gurion University, Israel, is a visiting professor at Curtin University. He has previously taught at the Technion, Israel, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, UC Berkeley and the University of Venice, and has been a research fellow at RMIT, Melbourne, the US Institute of Peace, Washington DC and the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.
Among his books are:
PLANNING AS CONTROL: POLICY AND RESISTANCE IN A DIVIDED
SOCIETY, Pergamon (1995).
ETHNIC FRONTIERS AND PERIPHERIES (with A. Meir) Westview (1998).
THE POWER OF PLANNING (ed) Kluwer Academic (2002).
ISRAELIS IN CONFLICT (co-editor) Sussex Academic Press (2004).
ETHNOCRACY: LAND, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE (Penn Press 2006).
