Episode 8: Urban apartheid in Jerusalem

In this episode, I talk to Mori Ram, Lecturer in Politics of the Global South at Newcastle University about urban apartheid in Jerusalem. Our discussion draws for the most part on the chapter written by our guest, Mori Ram, and Professor Haim Yacobi and titled “Neo-Apartheid Jerusalem: Palestine/Israel and the Question of Urban Apartheid”.

Mori’s recommended resources:

• Clarno, A. (2019). Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994. University of Chicago Press.

• Jabareen, Y. (2017). The right to space production and the right to necessity: Insurgent versus legal rights of Palestinians in Jerusalem. Planning Theory, 16(1), 6-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095215591675

• Shtern, M., & Rokem, J. (2023). Towards urban geopolitics of encounter: Spatial mixing in contested jerusalem. Geopolitics, 28(5), 1710-1734. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1926992

• Yacobi, H., & Milner, E. (2022). Planning, Land Ownership, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine. Journal of Palestine studies, 51(2), 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2022.2040321

Mori’s highlighted work:

• Ram, M., & Yacobi, H. (2023). Zionism in a white coat: Israel’s geopolitics of medical aid development assistance of health to Africa. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 50(4), 825–844. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2022.2038085

• Yacobi, H., & Ram, M. (2023). Neo-Apartheid Jerusalem. In M. Griffiths & M. Joronen (Eds.), Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence (pp. 149-175). University of Nebraska Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.8180963

Thank you to Elmeri Tommiska for the music and to Jyri Väisänen for the post-production assistance.