Dr. Haim Yacobi
Tel: 08-6477765
Fax: 08-6477242
Email: yacobih@bgu.ac.il
Office: 72 / room 642
Office hours: By appointment
Bio
Dr. Haim Yacobi is an architect and planner, a lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University. His academic work focuses on the geopolitics of cities. The main issues that stand in the core of his writings that has been published in different academic journals deal with the production of urban space, social justice, the politics of identity, migration, globalization and urban planning.
Books
Haim Yacobi, The Jewish-Arab City: Spatio-Politics in a Mixed Community, Routledge, London, 2009.
Haim Yacobi and Shelley Cohen, (eds.), Separation – the Politics of Israeli Space, Xargol & Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2007. (In Hebrew).
Haim Yacobi and Tovi Fenster (eds.), The Israeli City or Cities in Israel? Hakibutz Hameuchad and Van Leer Institute Jerusalem, 2006. (In Hebrew).
Haim Yacobi (ed.), Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture and the Zionist Discourse, Ashgate, London, 2004.
Articles
Haim Yacobi and Erez Tzfadia, "Multiculturalism, Nationalism and the Politics of the Israeli City," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2009 (forthcoming).
Haim Yacobi, "Architecture, Orientalism and Identity: a Critical Analysis of the Israeli Built Environment," Israel Studies, Vol. 13, no. 1, 2008: 94-118.
Haim Yacobi and Erez Tzfadia, "Identity, Migration and the City: Russian Immigrants in Contested Urban Space in Israel," Urban Geography, Vol. 28, no. 5, 2007: 436-455.
Haim Yacobi, "The NGOization of Space: Dilemmas of Social Change, Planning Policy and the Israeli Public Sphere," Environment and Planning, 2007: 745- 758.
Haim Yacobi and Erez Tzfadia, "Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Urban Politics: The Case of Ashdod," Israeli Sociology, 2007: 127-148. (In Hebrew).
Haim Yacobi with W. Pullan,P. Misselwitz, and R. Nasrallah, "Jerusalem's Road 1: An Inner City Frontier?" City, Vol. 11, no. 2, 2007: 176-198.
Haim Yacobi, "The Third Place: Architecture, Nationalism and the Postcolonial Gaze," Teorya u-Bikoret, Vol. 30,2007: 63-88. (In Hebrew).
Haim Yacobi and Relly Shechter, "Rethinking Cities in the Middle East: Political Economy, Planning and the Lived Space," The Journal of Architecture, 2006: 499-515.
Haim Yacobi and Tovi Fenster, "Whose City Is It? On Urban Planning and Local Knowledge in Globalizing Tel Aviv-Jaffa," Planning Theory and Practice, Vol. 6, no. 2, 2005: 191-211.
Haim Yacobi and Erez Tzfadia, “On the Construction of Territorial Identity: Nationalism and Space among Migrants in Lod,” Teorya u-Bikoret, Vol. 24, 2004: 45-71. (In Hebrew).