Urban sociology, urban transformation, privileged mobilities and the tourism-migration axis, lifestyle migration, urban heritage and memory, and urban activism.
Dr. Zaban Hila
Senior Lecturer,
Behavioral Sciences Department, Communication, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tourism and Hotel Management Department
.B.A Tourism and Hotel Management, B.A. in Behavioral Sciences, B.A. in Communication, M.A. Tourism and Hotel Management
Areas of Expertise
Selected Courses
Tourism geographies
Tourism, society and environment
Heritage tourism
Leisure studies
Qualitative research methods
Tourists, hosts and community relations
Social and environmental conflict resolution in tourism
Selected Publications
Zaban, H. (2024). Uncertain living: Pestering displaceability in a neighbourhood regeneration process. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 23996544241269075.
Shmuel, I., Cohen, N., Bielewska, A., & Zaban, H. (2024). Property investment and the making of the ambivalent elective Polish diaspora in Israel. Global Networks, 24(1), e12453.
Zaban, H. (2023). Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration. Urban Geography, 44(7), 1497-1519.
Zaban, H. (2022). Urban ethnic enclaves and migration industries: The urban choices of mobile people. Urban Studies, 59(11), 2255-2275.
Hayes, M. and Zaban, H. (2020). Introduction: Transnational Gentrification—The Crossroads of Transnational Mobility and Urban Research. Urban Studies, 57(15), 3009–3024.
Zaban H. (2020). The Real Estate Foothold in the Holy Land: Transnational Gentrification in Jerusalem. Urban Studies, 57(15), 3116–3134.
Zaban, H. (2017). Preserving “the Enemy’s” Architecture: Preservation and Gentrification in a Formerly Palestinian Jerusalem Neighbourhood. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(10), 961-976.
Zaban, H. (2017). City of Go(l)d: Spatial and Cultural Effects of High-Status Jewish Immigration from Western Countries on the Baka Neighbourhood of Jerusalem, Urban Studies, 54(7), 1539-1558.
Zaban, H. (2017). Structure, Agency and TimeSpace in Immigrants’ Enclaves: High-Status Immigration in Jerusalem, Israel. In A. Christou, E. Mavroudi and B. Page (eds.), Timespace and Migration. Cheltenham, London: Edward Elgar Publishing
Zaban, H. (2016). In the Name of Pluralism: Fighting the (Perceived) Ultra-Orthodox Penetration in the Neighbourhood of Baka, Jerusalem. Israel Studies, 21(3), 153-178.
Zaban, H. (2016). “Once There Were Moroccans Here—Today Americans”: Gentrification and the Real Estate Market in the Baka Neighbourhood of Jerusalem. City, 20(3), 412-427.
Zaban, H. (2015). The Effects of Lifestyle Migration of Jews from Western Countries on Jerusalem, Israel. Two Homelands, 42, 55-66.
Zaban, H. (2015). Living in a Bubble: Enclaves of Transnational Jewish Immigrants from Western Countries in Jerusalem. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16(4), 1003-1021.
Zaban, H. (2013). Becoming a Local within a Bubble: Enclaves of Transnational Jewish Immigrants of Western Countries in Jerusalem. In: R. B. Blake and N.J. Walthrust Jones (eds.), Identities and Borders: Interculturalism and the Construction of Identity. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 55-66
Zaban, H. (2013). Whose Neighbourhood Is It? On Belonging and Neighbourhood Citizenship in the Baka Neighbourhood of Jerusalem. In: A. Edelstein and M. Dugan (eds.), Migration Matters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 119-138