ABSTRACT
This book narrates the social history of Israel's political spaces and understands the underlying forces that shaped them are an ambitious project. Despite the numerous spatial mechanisms and practices employed by both state and local agents, maintaining pure homogeneous spaces is a Sisyphian task. The very notion of homogeneous communities which supposedly occupy pure spaces is itself obscure and in a constant state of flux. The book explores Michel Foucault's advice and describes a history of spaces, which is at the same time also the history of powers. By always foregrounding the spatial distribution of hierarchical power relations, we can better understand the processes whereby a space achieves a distinctive identity. The chapter argues that it is impossible to understand the production of Israel's fragmented map and the unequal division of political space without taking into account the constitutive role played by Zionist ideology in their production.
