ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the micro-scale analysis of frontier encounters. D. Grossman, examining various frontier settlement processes, suggested that frontier regions can seldom be settled without confrontation, or at least negotiation, with the local population. The frontier encounter between Jewish settlers and Bedouin in the Negev was unique in its political and organizational dimensions. The chapter explores that the change in the nature of the encounter was responsible for changes in space production to the disadvantage of the local original population. M. W. Mikessel, relying upon comparative studies in the old as well as the new world, drew a distinction between processes of inclusion and exclusion, both social and spatial, of the local population by the settling population. While in some regions, the local population became included, through assimilation, by the settling population, in others, the local population was excluded socially and spatially.
