The global wave of popular protests since 2011 has highlighted the importance of place to
contentious politics. Focusing on Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, this article analyzes …

Right now, it is hard to see a structural change in how western societies deal with housing.
But then again, structural changes are often hard to see without hindsight. It is easy to be …

This paper critically questions the state's hostile takeover of planning regulation followed by
experimentation initiated by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been …

This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of
contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with …

In this study, we examine recent actions taken by the Israeli state to naturalize technocratic
understandings of land-use plans through the mass media, and assess the implications of …

Combining anthropological analysis with the discipline of urban studies and the theory of
melancholy, this article offers the concept of 'melancholic citizenship'to describe the emotion …

This paper examines the effect of social protests on planning and housing policies by
looking at the case of Israel's 2011 J14 social protests and subsequent governmental policy …

Based on an ethnographic research conducted over three years (2010–2012), this paper
suggests new analytical concepts reflecting two types of temporal activism aimed at …

The latest encampments in public spaces, such as Occupy Wall Street, Taksim Square and
Syntagma Square, have highlighted the significance of public space in shaping social …

Within the field of social movement studies, scholars have devoted increasing attention to
how protesters reclaim and organize public spaces. Case studies reveal that protesters often …