Department of Politics and Government

Dr. Chen Misgav Chen is a town planner and geographer. His work focuses on social and cultural geographies, working with communities, qualitative methodologies, spatial activism and social movements, feminist and queer geographies and identity politics. Chen graduated his MSc in the Town and Regional planning program at the Technion where he wrote his thesis on the perceptions and needs of LGBT people in the urban space of Tel-Aviv. He wrote his PhD in the department of Geography and Human environment and the PECLAB (Planning with Communities for the Environment) at Tel-Aviv University, Israel and his PhD research titled "Spatial Activism: Perspectives of Body, Identity and Memory" was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Tovi Fenster. Chen published some journal papers and book chapters in Hebrew, Italian and English and co-edited special issue of Hagar - Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities on gender and geography. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the department of Politics and Government in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Research Fellow in Minerva center for the Humanities in Tel-Aviv University. Selected Publications "Dirty dancing: The (non)fluid geographies of a queer night club in Tel Aviv", Social & Cultural Geography (2014), 15(7): 730-746 "Memory and place in Participatory Planning”, Journal of Planning Theory and Practice (2014) Vol. 15, Issue 3: 349-369. "The Protest within the Protest? Political Spaces of Feminism and Ethnicities in the 2011 Israeli Protest Movement", Women's Studies International Forum (2015), 52: 20-29. Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Mori Ram Moriel's research interests lie at the intersection between militaristic geographies of death, urban geopolitics of faith and medical spatialities of health. Past and current research has focused on normalization process of contested territories by comparing the Golan Heights and Northern Cyprus; Formation and development of Israeli medical spaces in Africa;Contested urban environments and religious communal identity in Israel's mixed citiesand representation of undead spaces in popular geopolitical discourses. Moriel holds a PhD in politics and governance and from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Currently heis a post doc in the department of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion-Israel's Technological Institute. curriculum vitae Selected publications: Gordon N and Ram M (2016) Ethnic cleansing and the formation of settler colonial geographies. Political Geography 53. 20-29. Ram M (2015) Colonial Conquests Encampments and the Politics of Normalization. Political Geography 47. 21-32. Ram M (2014) Normalizing colonial conquest through spatial mimicry. Antipode 46(3). 736-753.
Dr. Neta Feniger

Postdoctoral scholars