Emptied Lands

Alexandre Kedar teaches at University of Haifa School of Law and is a co-editor of The Expanding Spaces of Law (Stanford, 2014). He is a co-founder of The Israeli Association for Distributive Justice.Ahmad Amara is a Polansky Academy Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, a human rights lawyer, and co-editor of Indigenous (In)Justice (Harvard, 2013). In 2005, he co-founded a human rights organization, Karama (Arabic for "Dignity"), in Nazareth.Oren Yiftachel teaches political geography and urban planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He authored Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine (Penn, 2006), co-edited Indigenous (In)Justice (Harvard, 2013), and was Chair of B'tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.

Introduction: Terra Nullius in Zion?

1. The Legal Geography of Indigenous Bedouin Dispossession

2. The Land Regime of the Late Ottoman Period

3. The Land Regime of the Mandate Period

4. Formulating the Dead Negev Doctrine During the Israeli Period

5. Historical Geography of the Negev: Bedouin Agriculture

6. Bedouin Territory and Settlement

7. The Bedouin as an Indigenous Community

8. International Law, Indigenous Land Rights, and Israel

9. State and Bedouin Policies and Plans

Conclusion: