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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, urban-rural politics, and environmental politics within the context of ethnic and national conflicts. His primary area of research focuses on land, urban, and environmental politics in Israel/Palestine, with a particular emphasis on Israeli control over Arab Jerusalem and its implications for urban and environmental governance, as well as land and environmental governance along the ethnic and urban/rural divide in Israel/Palestine. He earned his Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University and subsequently held a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He also served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at Haifa University and at the School of Sustainability at Reichman University in Israel

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2016
Ben-Gurion University, Department of Politics and Government
2010

2005
Tel Aviv University: Human Geography, Philosophy
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 the Inter Disciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya.
2016/17
Fulbright post-doctoral research fellow. The Department of Urban Planning and Design. Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).
2013-
Teaching Faculty (teaching coordinator and lecturer). Dept. of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel.

2022 Israel science foundation (ISF) individual research grant for a research project titeled: "Urbanization and the evolution of Mobility Infrastructure regime in the urban rural interface" (620,000 NIS)  

2018 The Open University Research Authority Grant (40,000 NIS) 

2019
 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Teaching Award. The Open University of Israel
 
2019
Postdoctoral Scholarship Award. The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa 
2016
Fulbright post-doctoral scholarship award for academic year 2016/2017.
2016
Israel Political Science Association. Award for best PhD dissertation for the year 2015.
2011-14
Doctoral Scholarship. Faculty of Humanities and Social Science. BGU 
2009
The Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University. Award for academic achievements.
2009
The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research. Tel Aviv University. Award for best MA research proposal.
2009
Israeli Planners Association: Urban planning award (first prize for student project) for the report: Towards Urban Regeneration: Neot Shoshanim Neighborhood, Holon.

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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)

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.

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  • Dept. of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel. Lecturer:
    Public policy in the age of globalization;
    Spatial policy, territory and planning
  • Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
    Course practicum coordinator and instructor: “Human rights and planning policy in the periphery”.
  • Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University.
    Course practicum coordinator and instructor: Porter environmental practicum program for MA students.
  • Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
    Adjunct lecturer: Geopolitics: theory, methodology and criticism.
  • Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University.
    Teaching assistant: Introduction to social and cultural geography.