The Palestinians and East Jerusalem

Over the last two decades, the Israeli government has implemented policies for the development of East Jerusalem. These comprise urban revitalization as well as professional training and the promotion of entrepreneurship for the Palestinians. But how do these policies co-exist under Israeli settler colonial power? This book focuses on the contradiction between the rise of neoliberal development in East Jerusalem and the simultaneous continuation of Israeli settler colonialism. It argues that the combination of settler colonialism and neoliberalism allows for the ''primitive accumulation of capital'' to also occur permanently through deceptive soft forms. More than this, based on theoretical research, interviews, and an analysis of race and class relations in East Jerusalem, the book shows that neoliberal development is used to facilitate the reproduction of racial hierarchies, settler privileges and the pacification of the Palestinian residents, where these outcomes are presented as the ''natural'' result of market relations. The author calls this environment ''neoliberal settler colonialism'' and explores Palestinians'' new acts of resistance that exist ambivalently within this structure. A significant theoretical contribution, the study highlights a new settler colonial and neoliberal sociability that co-opts the exploited and oppressed.>

Préface

Examines how Israeli settler colonialism and neoliberalism operate together to dispossess the Palestinians and transform East Jerusalem

Auteur
Bruno Huberman is Professor of International Relations at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Contenu

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Colonialisms, Capitalism and (Neo)liberalism
The Political Economy of Settler Colonialism: Settlers, Land and Labour
Racism and Capitalism: Soft Colonial Dispossession and Pacification
The two faces of Neoliberal Colonialism: Dispossession, Administration and the Entrepreneur Carrot
Settler Colonialism and Neoliberal Urbanism
Resistance against the ambivalences of Settler Colonial-Neoliberal Rule

Chapter 2 - Conflict, Race and Class in the Crisis of Neoliberal Apartheid in Jerusalem
Neoliberal Apartheid: Segregation, Dependence and Conflict
The Political Economy of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in Jerusalem in the 20th Century
Crisis and Neoliberal Urbanism in Post-Oslo Jerusalem
The Contradictions of the Neoliberal Apartheid in Jerusalem: Land, Labour and Class
Conclusion

Chapter 3 Neoliberal Israelization of East Jerusalem: Palestinian Inclusion, (De-)Development and Pacification
Neoliberal Development as the carrot for Pacifying the Palestinians in the OPT and in Israel
The Neoliberal Israelization in East Jerusalem in the 2010s
De-Development and Israelization: Building the Neoliberal Pacification
Urban Revitalization and Industrial Zones in EJ: Gentrification and Marginalization
Completing the Neoliberal Pacification: Culture, Education and Community Police
Conclusion

Chapter 4 Neoliberal Anticolonialism in the Palestinian Resistance: Tourism, High-Tech and Native Entrepreneur Activism
The Fragmentation of Neoliberal Anticolonialism and Economy of Resistance
Neoliberal Urbanism, Right to Housing and Palestinian City Planners
Entrepreneurship, Debt and Proletarization of Palestinian Women
Palestinian High-Tech Entrepreneurship in Jerusalem: Market Emancipation in the dispute for the Youth Hearts and Minds
Palestinian Elites in EJ, Neoliberal Development and Commodification of the Palestinian Identity
Conclusion

Conclusion