![]() In the background, we identify the political, territorial, economic and demographic changes that Arab society has undergone in Israel, and in the Negev-Bedouin society in particular. ![]() We locate the recent reduction in fertility at the point where women’s status meets patriarchal and ethnic political power. We consider fertility and childbearing as seen through the eyes and activities of a group of women on the ethnic and social margins of a patriarchal society in Israel. Multiple Bargaining Patriarchy: Perception of Fertility among Educated Arab Women in Israel Such knowledge may facilitate better understanding of local experiences and needs, particularly within a marginal frontier town, and suggest opportunities for economic growth hidden to “above” spectators. This discourse enriches the new mobility paradigm by offering a subjective local knowledge that accumulates through prolonged and intimate acquaintance with road space within a dynamic process. We demonstrate how Arad’s residents, living within a space that is layered economically, culturally and ethnically, generate a road discourse containing a fabric of mixed emotions, inter-ethnic tensions locally and core-periphery tensions nationally. We reveal that Arad’s marginal location and regional bi-ethnic reality generate a complex and conflicted discourse. Based on interviews, survey and archival materials this paper examines how Road 31 in the peripheral eastern Negev is expressed in the local discourse of the town of Arad before and after its upgrade. ![]() However, according to the new mobility paradigm a road is also a place having emotional, experiential, symbolic and political dynamics and thus a geographical entity rich with meanings to its users and nearby residents. Roads are mostly dealt with in their transportation context of linear connectivity between places. Road as a Mobile Place: Road 31 and Arad Between Connection and Disconnectionīatya Roded, Avinoam Meir and Arnon Ben Israel ![]() The study is based on a variety of archival sources, both institutional and private, ranging from statistics of border crossing to family photos taken abroad. The article joins new studies on everyday life in Palestine and challenges dominant approaches in the sociology of tourism which consider tourism of that time as a western activity. The travels of the Jews to their relatives in Europe, on the other hand, highlighted the European identity, though they also caused some tension with a few Zionist organizations. The article emphasizes the contribution of human mobility to the assemblage of both ethnospatial boundaries and geopolitical identities: recreation and trading travels of Arabs and Jews in the region illustrated Palestine as part of a regional mobility unit of the “Middle East”, and took part in the establishment of a temporal and delimited mutual Arab-Jewish livelihood. This article traces the journeys and trips of residents of Mandatory Palestine and seeks to reveal the lifestyles in a region where borders mattered little. Between Palestine, Lebanon and Europe: Journeys and Trips in Terms of a No Borders Colonial Middle East
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