Planning traditions, globalisation and the discourse around knowledge: History, criticism and change

For the 150,000 Muslim Bedouin living in the Negev Desert, South Israel, the different approaches to planning traditions, current globalisation trends and the discourse around knowledge have their expressions in the people’s ongoing conflicts with the establishment in Israel. These conflicts focus on two main issues: the landownership dispute and the different perceptions on lifestyle and settlement schemes that the Bedouin and the state bureaucrats have.