Bedouin Publications & Research Activities

Steven C. Dinero, Ph.D.

From February 1 – July 31, 2007 I held a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship through Haifa University in Haifa, Israel.  I have now completed a monograph, Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin. The book will appear in November 2010, and is being published by Berghahn Publishers (Oxford and New York).  

In brief, the work concerns 15 years of longitudinal socioeconomic analysis of the planned bedouin community of Segev Shalom, a community of 6,000 post-nomadic Muslim Arabs in southern Israel.  I wrote my doctoral dissertation about this town in the early 1990s, and have been tracking the development of the community ever since.

The following is a list of my other research activities concerning the Negev bedouin.  Many of these articles are available on-line.  If you are interested in any of these topics and can not locate a full text copy you can email me, and I will try to send a hard copy out to you. I appreciate receiving copies of finished works which use my work as sources. 

• “Educational Provision and Spatial Dis-[O]rientation Among Pastoralist Communities in the Middle East and North Africa,” in Sultana, R. & A. Mazawi (Eds.). Routledge World Yearbook of Education in the Middle East and North Africa. Routledge: New York, 2009. Pp. 226-38.

• “Women’s Roles, Polygyny and Cultural Transformation in Negev Bedouin Townships: A Gendered Landscape of National Resistance to Post-Colonial Conquest and Control,” in Chatty, Dawn (ed.). Nomadic Societies in The Middle East and North Africa:  Entering the 21^st Century. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden & Boston, 2006. Pp. 883-915.

• “New Identity/Identities Formulation in a Post-Nomadic Community: The Case of the Bedouin of the Negev,” in National Identities, vol. 6(3): 261-75, 2004.

• “Special Education Use Among the Negev Bedouin Arabs of Israel:  A Case of Minority Under-Representation?” in Race Ethnicity and Education, vol. 5(4): 377-96.  December 2002.

• “Image is Everything:  The Development of the Negev Bedouin as a Tourist Attraction,” in Nomadic Peoples, vol. 6(1): 69-94, 2002.

• "Planning for an Ethnic Minority: The Bedouin Arabs of Israel," in Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society, Burayidi, Michael (ed.). Praeger: Westport, Connecticut & London. 2000. pps.169-91

• "Reconstructing Identity Through Planned Resettlement: The Case of the Negev Bedouin," in the Third World Planning Review, vol. 21(1):19-39, February 1999.

• "Planning in a Post-Nomadic Bedouin Town: An Update and Follow-up Assessment of Development and Change in Segev Shalom, Israel," in Scottish Geographical Magazine: The Journal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, vol. 114(2):66-75, August 1998.

• "Social Adaptation and Welfare Planning in the Post-Nomadic Environment: The Case of the Israeli Negev Bedouin," in the Journal of Community Practice, vol. 5(2):15-36, 1998.

• "Female Role Change and Male Response in the Post-Nomadic Environment: The Case of the Israeli Negev Bedouin," in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies, vol. 29(3):248-261, Autumn 1997.

• "Observation, Advocacy or Interference? Undertaking Research in a 'Fourth World' Community," in Humanity & Society. vol. 20(3):111-132, August 1996.

• "Resettlement and Modernization in Post-Nomadic Bedouin Society: The Case of Segev Shalom, Israel," The Journal of Planning Education and Research, vol. 15(2):105-116, 1996.

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