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Dr. Oren Shlomo, Lecturer

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The Open University of Israel Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication 1 University Road P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:972-9-7781716 Fax:09-7780660 Email:orensh@openu.ac.il

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Areas of Interest
  • Political Geography
  • Urban politics
  • Environmental politics

Dr. Oren Shlomo works in the fields of political geography, urban politics and urbanization, and environmental politics within the context of ethnic and national conflicts. His primary cases of research focus on urban politics and governance within the context of Israeli control in East Jerusalem, as well as land control and environmental governance along the ethnic and urban/rural divide in Israel/Palestine, particularly in the West Bank. He earned his Ph.D. from Ben-Gurion University and subsequently held a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University.

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2016
PhD; Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University 
2010
MA; Political Geography, Tel Aviv University
2005
BA; Continental Philosophy, Human Geography, Tel Aviv University 
2023/24
Head of the School of Local Government. The Open University of Israel
2021/2024
Head of the Public Policy Division. The Open University of Israel
2020
Faculty Member. Lecturer. Dept. of Sociology, Political Science and Communication. The Open University of Israel
2019/20
Post-doctoral research fellow. The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa
2017/18
Post-doctoral research fellow. School of Sustainability at Reichman university 
2016/17
Fulbright post-doctoral research fellow. The Department of Urban Planning and Design. Harvard Graduate School of Design. 
2013/20
Teaching Faculty, Dept. of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel
2019
The Open University of Israel, Teaching Award. 
2019
The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa. Postdoctoral scholarship award. 
2016
Fulbright post-doctoral scholarship award 
2016
Israel Political Science Association. Best PhD dissertation award
2009
Tel Aviv University. Award for academic achievements. 
2009
The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research. Tel Aviv University. Award for best MA research proposal 

The Research Authority of the Open University. Grant for Book Publication.

Israel science foundation (ISF) individual research grant: "Urbanization and the evolution of Mobility Infrastructure regime in the urban rural interface" (620,000 NIS)

The Open University Research Authority Grant (40,000 NIS)

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Fenster Tovi and Shlomo Oren (eds.). 2014. Cities of Tomorrow: Planning Justice and Sustainability Today? Tel Aviv, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 280 pages (in Hebrew).

Shlomo, Oren. 2014. Sovereignty, urbanism and planning: The case of East Jerusalem. In: Fenster Tovi and Shlomo Oren (eds.). Cities of Tomorrow: Planning Justice and Sustainability Today? Tel Aviv, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (in Hebrew)

Shlomo, Oren. (2023). From a Divided City to Subordinated Integration: Functional, Spatial and Political Shifts in Post-Oslo East Jerusalem. To be published in an edited book summarizing the activity of "Colonization and Resistance" research group in The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem (Hebrew)

Shlomo Oren and Michal Braier (2024). Threats and Ambivalence in Land Formalization: the Case of Settler-Colonial Land Regime in East Jerusalem/al-Quds. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. online first 

Marom, N and Shlomo, O. (2022). Green, Gray, Glocal: Governing Urban Resilience in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Region. Urban Geography, 1-24.

Shlomo Oren, Tsfadia Erez, Efrat Bar-Cohen. (2021). Planning in Civil Society: Twenty Years of Bimkom: On Planning, Community and Human Rights. Planning: Journal of the Israel Association of Planners 17(2) pp. 21-34 (Hebrew)

Shlomo Oren and Maron Nathan (2019). Infrastructural Instabilities of Urban River Restoration:  Towards a Metropolitan Political Ecology in the Tel Aviv Region. Projections: the MIT Journal of Planning 14. 

Shlomo Oren. (2017). The governmentalities of infrastructure and services amid urban conflict: East Jerusalem in the post Oslo era. Political Geography 61, 224-236.

Shlomo Oren. (2017). The governmentalization of East Jerusalem in post-Oslo era.  Theory and Criticism 48, 127-150 (Hebrew).

Shlomo Oren. (2017). Sub-formality in the formalization of public transport in East Jerusalem. Current Sociology 65(2), 260-275

Shlomo Oren. (2016). Between discrimination and stabilization: The exceptional governmentalities of East Jerusalem. City 20(3), 428-440.

Shlomo Oren. (2016). Sub-Formalization in East Jerusalem schooling. Geography Research Forum 36, 51-67.

Shlomo Oren. (2015). Governmentalization of East Jerusalem in the Post Oslo era. Israeli Affairs Journal issue #58 (in Arabic)

Shlomo Oren and Fenster Tovi (2011). In the Shadow of the Wall and Separation: Everyday Life in East Jerusalem. Palestine Israel Journal 17(12), 54-63.