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Topics in Geography. Conferencia "Jerusalem's geopolitical question: an urban and social geography"

El próximo martes día 27 de enero, el profesor Dr. Noam Shoval impartirá la conferencia "JERUSALEM'S GEOPOLITICAL QUESTION: AN URBAN AND SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY", dentro de la asignatura Topics in Geography. Os hago llegar un breve resumen facilitado por el propio Dr. Shoval:

"Jerusalem is the heart of a religious, ethnic, national, and political conflict and is often defined as a polarized and contested city. In addition to the segregation between Jews and Arabs, the Jewish population residing in Jerusalem is also divided along religious lines. As a result, much of the academic literature describes Jerusalem as polarized and divided. However, these analyses are based solely on data regarding housing patterns.  This presentation challenges this paradigm of Jerusalem, measuring segregation not only by where residents spend their nights but by their daytime activity as well. The study’s main source is a high-resolution database (in time [seconds] and space [meters]) that includes 16,000 residents of Jerusalem that were all tracked with GPS devices for a 24-hour period and then interviewed. This presentation generates greater understanding of Jerusalem’s current urban and social geography. It offers a more complex view of the city, which may contradict prevailing notions of static segregation."


El acto tendrá lugar en el Seminario de Geografía de 11 a 13h y está abierto a todo el que esté interesado.