Mapping the Occupation: Performativity and the Precarious Israeli Identity

Huss, Michal

doi:10.1080/14650045.2017.1393800

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“…They are often not archived and are not passed on to army intelligence. 126 According to one former Israeli soldier, the 'mappings were designed to make the Palestinians feel that we were there all the time … I had the pictures [I had taken] for around a month … [N]o commander asked about them, no intelligence officer took them … At one point I deleted the pictures, I realized it was all a joke.' 127 What is the point then of such operations?…”

Section: Key Results Of the Oslo Regime: Jurisdiction And Governance mentioning

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States of failure? Ungovernance and the project of state-building in Palestine under the Oslo regime*

Burgis-Kasthala

2020

Transnational Legal Theory

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How can we understand the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis in the wake of the Oslo regime and to what extent has it facilitated the realisation of Palestinian statehood? Rather than read the Oslo regime as a prelude towards peace and resolution, instead, it has been productive of failure. In understanding how this came to pass and how this state of failure persists, the article argues that ungovernance is an instructive approach, which highlights how Israeli control is achieved through a series of disruptions: severing people from the land, severing rule from responsibility and severing statehood from self-government. After discussing the shape of the Oslo regime, this article explores how ungovernance is practiced across the Palestinian territories through the misgovernance of micro practices that produce a population in disorientation and despair.

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Section: Key Results Of the Oslo Regime: Jurisdiction And Governance mentioning

confidence: 99%

States of failure? Ungovernance and the project of state-building in Palestine under the Oslo regime*

Burgis-Kasthala

2020

Transnational Legal Theory

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“…Furthermore, as Said's (1978) concept of “orientalism” probes, colonialism is a system of power–knowledge, through which the “Orient” emerges as a site and object of Western imagination—involving an infatuation with the East as exotic but also underdeveloped to justify imperial domination. Accordingly, Zionism imagined itself as Western vis vis‐à‐vis the reduction of Palestinians as “primitive”; simultaneously trying to emulate and appropriate the Palestinian indigeneity to assert its claim for nativity (Guez 2015; Huss 2019). Following the 1948 war, Israel deployed “classic” settler‐colonial apparatuses to nationalise the dispossessed Palestinian land and property and populate Jews in “frontier” regions (and replicated this process after 1967 in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) (Benvenisti 2002; Yacobi and Tzfadia 2019; Yiftachel 2009).…”

Section: Between Neo‐settler‐colonial Violence Urban Displacement And...mentioning

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Paths of Erasure and Trails of Resistance in a Neo‐Settler‐Colonial City

Huss

2023

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Urban displacement is receiving growing visibility within urban studies. However, most literature centres on the logic of late capitalism and tends to neglect colonial history and local resistance to displacement. This paper takes an alternative path: it relates (a) the history of colonialism and ethnic cleansing of the city of Jaffa with (b) the present‐day gentrification and displacement caused by neoliberal urbanism. To unpack this entanglement, the article focuses on political city walking tours led by Internally Displaced Palestinians in Jaffa, alongside a broader repertoire of urban subaltern tactics to reclaim it—ranging from community meetings to more overtly politicised acts of protest and initiatives to disrupt gentrification. The article therefore advances debates on urban displacement and urban citizenship mobilisation through the lens of post‐colonial theories, and by adopting a participatory interdisciplinary approach—from a novel perspective that centres local knowledge, lived experiences, and grassroots activism.

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“…Falah 2004;Griffiths 2017;Hammami 2016); and the manifold 'slow-motion' bureaucratic means by which the Israeli Civil Administration maintains Palestinians' precarity (Berda 2017;Joronen 2017). In the context of families and the occupation of Palestine, scholars have further documented how Israeli officials construct the Palestinian family as nuclear so as to make surveillance more effective (Zureik 2001, 219), and the ways that family members of each household are frequently photographed and mapped by the Israeli Army (Huss 2017). Additional work has identified the family as the locus of the more extreme forms of colonial violence, from house demolition and deportation to collective punishment, checkpoint restrictions and denial of reunification (Griffiths and Repo 2018;Shalhoub-Kevorkian 2012).…”

Section: Slow-motion Government Bureaucracy and Precaritymentioning

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Marriage under occupation: Israel’s spousal visa restrictions in the West Bank

Griffiths

Joronen

2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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In the West Bank, hundreds of non-Palestinian women who are married to Palestinian men have recently been issued shortened visas with tightened restrictions. This means they are often prevented from working, their mobilities are severely reduced and they are placed in extremely precarious bureaucratic and procedural positions. The research in this article draws from fieldwork interviews with women affected by such restrictions to show how politically induced precarities produce gendered effects towards specific ends of the occupation of Palestine. We thus frame a discussion of the women's experiences of visa regulations through precarity before giving an account of the profound effects on women's roles in family and political life. We then broaden the focus to consider Israel's occupation of Palestine and the demographic implications of the gendered effects of visa precarity. In doing so we make the argument that Israel's spousal visa regulations contribute to the (re)production of uneven gender relations and the demographic objective of emptying out the West Bank.

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Mapping the Occupation: Performativity and the Precarious Israeli Identity

Cited by 8 publications

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States of failure? Ungovernance and the project of state-building in Palestine under the Oslo regime*

States of failure? Ungovernance and the project of state-building in Palestine under the Oslo regime*

Paths of Erasure and Trails of Resistance in a Neo‐Settler‐Colonial City

Marriage under occupation: Israel’s spousal visa restrictions in the West Bank

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