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Taming the road, tamed by the road: sense of road as place among Indigenous Bedouin in an ethnic frontier in Israel

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  • Avinoam Meir
  • Arnon Ben Israel
  • Batya Roded
  • Ibrahim Abu-Ajaj

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We propose the concept ‘sense of road as place’ for an Indigenous group within an ethnic frontier, specifically in the case of the Israeli Bedouin. A road in this spatial context carries far greater meanings than elsewhere, particularly when also impacted by power relationships with the state. We reveal how Road 31 was/is subjectified by the Bedouin as a place prior to and after an upgrade. Initially they were able, through their Indigenous spatiality, to tame the road into their informal mobility and make it a place, but following the upgrade their informal mobility has been tamed into formal state-regulated mobility, making the road a non-place.

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  • Avinoam Meir & Arnon Ben Israel & Batya Roded & Ibrahim Abu-Ajaj, 2019. "Taming the road, tamed by the road: sense of road as place among Indigenous Bedouin in an ethnic frontier in Israel," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 250-266, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:14:y:2019:i:2:p:250-266
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1567987
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    1. José Barrena & Alberto Harambour & Machiel Lamers & Simon R Bush, 2022. "Contested mobilities in the maritory: Implications of boundary formation in a nomadic space," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 40(1), pages 221-240, February.

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