Oren Yiftachel is a political, social and legal geographer and an urban planner.
His research has focused on:
- Critical geographies
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples
- Social justice and space
- Land regimes
- Planning theory
- The Zionist-Palestinian conflict
- The Negev

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

• Yiftachel, O. (1995) 'Planning as Control: Policy and Resistance in Deeply Divided Societies', Progress in Planning Series, Vol. 44, Pergamon-Elsvier, Oxford, UK, 89 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables, ISBN: 0305-9006-95.

• Yiftachel, O. (2006) Ethnocracy: Land, and the Politics of Identity Israel/Palestine PennPress - the University of Pennsylvania Press, 306 pp. 26 figures, 4 tables; translated to five languages.

• Amara, A., Yiftachel, O. and abu-Saad, I. (eds), 2013. Indigenous (In)Justice? Human Rights among Bedouins in Southern Israel/Palestine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press.

• Kedar, S., Amara, A.' Yiftachel, O. (2018), Emptied Lands: Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev, Stanford: Stanford University Press. In translation to Hebrew and Arabic, expected 2019-20.
• Yiftachel, O.. and Porter, O. (eds) 2019, Settler Colonialism, Indigeneity and the City, special issue of Settler Colonial Studies Vol. 10, No. 2 (introduction and seven papers)

• יפתחאל, א. 1997. שומרים על הכרם – מג'ד אלכרום כמשל, ירושלים - הוצאת ון-ליר

• יפתחאל, א. ומנדלבאום, ר. 2015. העיר דורשת צדק חברתי, גיליון מיוחד של כתב העת 'תכנון'..

• יפתחאל, א. 2020. עוצמה ואדמה – ישראל פלסטין בין אתנוקרטיה ואפרטהייד, תל-אביב - הוצאת רסלינג

ARTICLES

• Yiftachel, O. (1998) 'Planning and Social Control: Exploring the Dark Side', Journal of Planning Literature Vol. 12 No. 4: 395-406. In Hebrew – 'Cracks in Utopia – the 'Dar Side of Planning' Block: City, Theory, Media, Architecture, vol. 3: 78-91 (Hebrew).
• Yiftachel, O. (1999) 'Between Nation and State: 'Fractured Regionalism' among Palestinian-Arabs in Israel', Political Geography Vol. 18 No. 3: 285-307ֶ
• Yacobi, H. and Yiftachel, O. (2003) ‘Urban Ethnocracy: Ethnicization and the Production of Space in an Israeli ‘Mixed’ City’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 21: 3: 322-343.
• Yiftachel, O. 2009 'Theoretical Notes on 'Gray Cities': the Coming of Urban Apartheid?', Planning Theory, 8: 1: 88-100.
• Yiftachel, O. 2015, 'From Gray Space to Metrozenship: Reflections on Urban Citizenship', IJURR (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research), Vol 39: 4: 726-737.
• Yiftachel, O. (2016) 'Aleph: Jerusalem as Critical Learning', City, Vol. 20. 483-494..
• Yiftachel, O. (2020) 'From Displacement to Displaceability', City (special relaunch issue), 24:1: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739933