Yosef Jabareen is a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion– Israel Institute of Technology. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Middle East Institute and the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University for the Spring 2024 semester. He Graduated from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, was a senior lecturer at the Urban Department at MIT, and was a visiting scholar at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (MIT). At present, Jabareen is the Reviewer and Editor of Planning Theory.
Jabareen’s research focuses on the politics of state-society relations, and more specifically, he investigates the relations between state and social, ethnic, and racial groups through the unique lenses of state territoriality and demographic policy. In Israel/Palestine, he investigates the relations between Israel and the Jewish and Palestinian groups in the country, including Jerusalem and the West Bank. His work examines the types of bi-national geographies and segregated spaces the state has produced and their impact on future geo-political possibilities. Furthermore, Jabareen has been tracing the political collective action of the Palestinian minority in Israel (which constitutes 21% of the state population) and the Palestinians in East Jerusalem in resisting the state planning and space production policy.
He published numerous books and refereed articles regarding the politics of space production in Israel/Palestine, such as Orientalism and Architecture in Israel/Palestine (in Hebrew); Culturally Oriented Planning in the Negev/Naqab; Planning the Arab Cities in Israel; Planning and Civil Society among Indigenous People, National Hegemonic Territorial Planning in Israel (Arabic), and Israeli Planning in Jerusalem: Strategies of Domination and Control. In The Risk City (Springer), he recently expanded his research to study state-society relations in large cities worldwide. His forthcoming The Resilient City (Springer Nature, 2024) excavates the urban orders of New York City through the lens of space production and social justice.
Contact Information
yj2818@columbia.edu
