Social and spatial conflicts: the settlement process in Israel during the 1950s and the 1960s

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The geometric tradition in geography has been recently criticized for its preoccupation with spatial systems as they appear at the empirical level. In contrast, it has been argued that the elements of observable reality should be understood through the mediation of underlying socio-political structure. In accordance with this approach, the formation of space in Israel is reexamined by locating spatial structure within social formation. Israeli society has been characterized by social conflict resulting from the uneven distribution of social, political and organizational power among social groups, and from the incompatible interests of each group. In its attempt to reproduce the social system, the social-democratic state has internalized part of the conflict but could not eliminate it. Geographically, the social conflict has evolved into a spatial one, assuming at all scales — national, regional or intra-urban — a core-periphery pattern.

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