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Dr. Hadas Zur

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hadas.zur@biu.ac.il
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Room:438 | Building:213
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Monday 12:00-13:00
    CV

    2008-2012 - B.A. School of Film and TelevisionWomen and Gender Studies, Journalism & Media Studies, Koteret School of Journalism, Tel Aviv University 

    2013-2015 - M.A Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University

    201602023 - Ph.D. Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University

    2023-2024 - Post-doctorate The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

    2024- Present - Assistant professor Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University

     

    Research

    The relationship between violence and digital technology

    Violence in the city in the digital age

    Policing the city in the digital age

    Spatial aspects of prostitution 

    Smart cities

    Care and the city

    Courses

    Violence in the Digital Age

    Urban Criminology: the relations between Crime, Violence and the City

    Geographies of Marginality in the urban arena

    Smart and safe? the managing of violence in the city in the digital age

    The crisis of crime in Arab cities

    Publications

    Peer reviewed papers 

    Zur, H. (2024) The concept of the ‘neighbourhood’ in crime and place theory and its influence on police strategy, Built Environment, Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2024, pp. 95-113(19),  https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.50.1.95

    Zur, H. (2024) Place-oriented digital agency: Residents’ use of digital means to enhance neighborhood change, Urban Studies, Special Issue on “Digitalization, Neighborhood Change, and Urban Social Processes,” Online first, https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231224629 

    Zur, H., & Hatuka, T. (2023) Local–Digital Activism: Place, Social media, Body and Violence in Changing Urban Politics, Social Media + Society, 9(2), 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231166443 

    Zur, H. (2022). Policing temporality: Police reflection on the role of police in gentrifying a high-crime neighborhood, Urban Affairs Review, 59(3), 866-891. https://doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1177/10780874221096748.

    Zur, H. (2021). The formation of invisible prostitution in Tel Aviv: Police, law and the ordering of space, Law, Society and Culture, (D), 133-164. [Hebrew]

    Hatuka T., & Zur H. (2020). From smart cities to smart social urbanism: The role of urban context and society in the digital age. Telematics and Informatics Special issue: Smart Urbanism, 55, 101430, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2020.101430. 

    Hatuka T., Zur, H., & Mendoza Garcia, A. (2019). The urban digital lifestyle: An analytical framework for placing digital practices in a spatial context and for developing applicable policy. Cities, 111, 102978 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102978

    Hatuka T., & Zur H. (2019). Who is the “smart” resident in the digital age? The varied profiles of users and non-users in the contemporary city. Urban Studies, 57(6), 1260-1283 https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019835690

    Hatuka, T., Rosen-Zvi, I., Birnhack, M., Toch, E., & Zur H. (2018). The political premises of contemporary urban concepts: The global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the creative city, and the smart city., Planning Theory & Practice, 19(2), 160-179, https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2018.1455216.

    Chapter in books

    Zur, H. (2017). Prostitution in Tel Baruch: An alternative moral space in the margins of the “clean” city.  In Tula Amir, Ed. Traffic Signs: Feminism and Space in Israel. Hargul, 153-165. [Hebrew]

    Zur, H. (2025). Hyper-democratic and intolerant: the public sphere in an area of ​​deep social diversity. In Tula Amir, Ed. Public Space and Democracy. Forthcoming. [Hebrew]

    Reports

    Hatuka T., & Zur H. (2018). Exclusion and inequality in the digital city. In Tali Hatuka, Ed. The Digital City: Planning, Technology, Privacy and Inequality, Tel Aviv University, 88-113. [Hebrew]

    Hatuka, T., Toch, E., Birnhack, M., & Zur H. (2020). The Digital City: Critical Dimensions in Implementing the Smart City, Planning, Technology, Privacy and Equality. Eds. Tali Hatuka, Tel Aviv University.

    Last Updated Date : 14/10/2024