Articles in Refereed Journals
Barak N. (2017) “Hundertwasser – Inspiration for Environmental Ethics: Reformulating the Ecological-Self”, Environmental Values 26(3): 317-342.
https://doi.org/10.3197/096327117X14913285800689
Mualam N. PI and Barak N. PI (2019) “Evaluating Comparative Research: Mapping and Assessing Current Trends in Built Heritage Studies”, Sustainability 11(3), 677.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030677
Barak N. (2020) “Ecological City-Zenship.” Environmental Politics 29, no. 3: 479–99.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1660504
Barak N. “Civic Ecologism: Environmental Politics in Cities”, Ethics, Policy & Environment 23, no.1: 53-69, https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2020.1746005
Kaddar M. PI , Kirchberg V. PI , Barak N. PI , Seidl M., PI , de Shalit A. PI , Wedler P. (2020), “Artistic City-zenship: How artists practice and perceive political agency in their cities”, Journal of Urban Affairs, online ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2020.1792312
Barak N. PI , Sommer U. PI , Mualam N. PI , (2021), “Urban Attributes and the Spread of COVID-19: The Effects of Density, Compliance, and Socio-Political Factors in Israel”, Science of the Total Environment, 793: 148626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148626.
Barak N., Sommer U., Mualam N., (2022), Barak, Nir, and Nir Mualam. “How Do Cities Foster Autonomous Planning Practices despite Top-down Control?” Cities 123: 103576.
Kaddar M., Kirchberg V., Barak N., Seidl M., de Shalit A., Wedler P. (2022), “Artistic City-zenship: How artists practice and perceive political agency in their cities”, Journal of Urban Affairs 44, no.4-5, 471-489.
Hoop M., Kirchberg V., Kaddar M., Barak N., de Shalit A., (2022) “Urban Artistic Interventions: A Typology of Artistic Political Actions in the City”, City, Culture, and Society 29: 100449.
Kaddar M., Barak N., Hoop M., Kirchberg V., and de Shalit A., (2022) “The Artistic Spirit of Cities: How Cities Influence Artists’ Agency.” Cities 130:
Barak N., Shani L., (2022) “Climatization: Who are you climate and what have you done to my environment?”, Kriot Israeliot, 2: 1-13.
Barak N., Mualam N., (2023) “Urban Autonomy: Changes in city-state relationships in Israel” Studies on Regulation, 7: 25-84.
Chapters in refereed edited volumes
Barak N. (2015) “Hundertwasser’s Vienna: Architecture, Urban Identity and Environmental Sentiments”, pp. 249-268 in (eds.) Wakounig Marija, Kühnel Ferdinand, Central Europe (Re-)visited. A Multi-Perspective Approach to a Region, Vienna, LitVerlag.
Barak N. PI and de Shalit A. PI (2016) “Environmental Political Activism”, pp. 266-272 in ed.Byron Williston, Environmental Ethics for Canadians (2nd edition), Ontario: Oxford University Press.
Barak N. (2019) “What Cities can teach us about Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene”, pp. 94-107, in eds. Manuel Arias-Maldonado and Zev Trachtenberg, Rethinking the Environment for the Anthropocene: Political Theory and Socionatural Relations in the New Geological Epoch, New York: Routledge.
Barak N. PI and de Shalit A. PI (2021) “Urbanizing political concepts for analyzing politics in the city” in (eds.) Helmut Aust and Jane Nijman, Research Handbook on International Law and Cities, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing, 329-340.
Barak N., (2023) “Cities and Nature: Conceptualizations, Normativity, and Political Analysis”, 385-405 in (eds.) Kassiola Joel, Luke Timothy, The Palgrave Handbook on Environmental Politics, Activism, and Theory, Palgrave.
Essays and public writing
Barak N. (2015) “Placemaking as a tool for collective inquiry and structuring of urban political identities” in Making Places: Placemaking in Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew)
Barak N. (2016) “Cities as Human Niches: Against the Natural City”, in the academic blog Inhabiting the Anthropocene. https://inhabitingtheanthropocene.com/2016/10/05/cities-as-human-niches-against-the-natural-city/
Barak N. (2018) “The Limits of Techno-management in Transitioning to Green Cities.” In: “Green City: Explorations and Visions of Urban Sustainability,” (eds.,) Simone M. Müller and Annika Mattissek, RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society no. 1: 47–52.
Barak N. (2019) “Postscript: Vertical Allocation as a Manifestation of Urban Autonomy (?)” pp.252-254, in: Nir Mualam, Eyal Salinger, and Gal Noihaus-Feuerstein, Vertical Allocations: Allocations of Public Utilities in Multi-purpose Buildings - Legal, Economic and Planning
Aspects, Haifa: The Center for Urban & Regional Studies – Technion (In Hebrew).
Barak N. (2019) “City-zenship and national citizenship: complementary and competing but not emancipated from each other”. This contribution is part of an international debate launched by Rainer Bauböck and Liav Orgad at the European University Institute’s Global Citizenship Observatory analyzing the question: Should urban citizenship be emancipated from nationality?.
http://globalcit.eu/cities-vs-states-should-urban-citizenship-be-emancipated-from-nationality/3/
Also published on Verfassungsblog – On Matters Constitutional forum.
Barak N. (2020) “City-zenship and national citizenship: complementary and competing but not emancipated from each other”.
https://verfassungsblog.de/city-zenship-and national-citizenship-complementary-and-competing-but-not emancipated-from-each-other/
Barak N. (2022) “The ecological teaching of the activist and architect Hundertwasser remains urgent and pertinent today”, The Architectural Review [magazine],
