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Haddad, Toufic

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“…Aid conditionality had resulted in the commitment of funds becoming contingent on security-focused and counter-terrorism work. 77 This arrangement also consolidated the authority of the aforementioned 'client class'. 78 However, there was sometimes a tendency to discuss these different factors in isolation from each other, which meant that interviewees sometimes listed different failures, thus giving the impression they were somehow independent of each other.…”

Section: Political Failuresmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…However, they were not fully clear on how this could be achieved and this appeared to implicitly acknowledge the extent of its co-option. 74 Concerns were also raised about the role of political parties in public life and the extent to which their activities are in the public interest.…”

Section: Leadership and Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The PLO marginalisation, as a number of my interviewees recognised, has further exacerbated this 'democratic deficit', as has dependence on external (overwhelmingly western) donor funding, which has weakened accountability to grassroots bases. 55…”

Section: The 'Peace Process' and The Colonial Continuummentioning

confidence: 99%

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Palestinian leadership and the contemporary significance of the First Intifada

Naser-Najjab¹

2020

Race & Class

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On the eve of the highly controversial 2020 plan for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank, the author examines the nature of the Palestinian condition and the many challenges Palestinians confront, including the absence of an effective leadership. In registering this, the article proposes a reassessment of the First Intifada that places it in a contemporary perspective and seeks to ‘excavate’ modes of resistance. It engages with the problematic of leadership and highlights how existing challenges might be addressed. Taking into account the Oslo Accords and subsequent attempts towards neoliberal state-building, it draws on theories of settler colonialism and stresses the neo-colonial continuum in Palestine. Finally, the author interviews key activists from the First Intifada to (respectively) provide insight into the nature of the contemporary situation and suggest an alternative model of leadership and struggle.

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Section: Political Failuresmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Leadership and Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Palestinian leadership and the contemporary significance of the First Intifada

Naser-Najjab¹

2020

Race & Class

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“…Should one regard the dis/articulation of this hub from global (in this case, Israeli) markets as a deprivation or a welcome step toward self-reliance and a reduction in pollution? For decades, the PA, donor community, engaged governments, and many Israeli actors operated under a neoliberal model in which increased economic linkage of Israeli and Palestinian businesses was seen as a stabilizing force for peace- and state-building (Haddad, 2016). However, there is a growing sense among Palestinians and observers of the Palestinian predicament that the fundamentally uneven terms of any economic engagement with Israel undermine Palestinian strategic interests, which would be better served by steadfast and deliberate withdrawal rather than a deepening of cross-boundary engagement (see, e.g.…”

Section: Can Reformist E-waste Policies Be Reformed?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We argue for the possibility of extending this framework from the Production Networks, to which they have usually been applied, to Destruction Networks (Herod et al., 2013), such as those dealing with e-waste. Seen through these lenses, the consequences of Israel's EPR legislation appear not as an inevitable cleaning up or even uplift of hazardous informal practices, but, as the most recent milestone of (dis)articulation of this rural community with and from Israeli markets since 1967, compounded by a lack of representation of the development visions of peripheral communities within the neoliberal development and state-building trajectories envisioned by the post-Oslo Palestinian National Authority 4 (Haddad, 2016).…”

Section: Introduction and Contextmentioning

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Extended responsibility or continued dis/articulation? Critical perspectives on electronic waste policies from the Israeli-Palestinian case

Davis

Garb

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Extended producer responsibility policies and interventions propose a template for electronic waste management with considerable and growing discursive and policy traction worldwide. Originating in the global North, they increasingly implicate countries and sites in the global South, in particular, people working in informal electronic waste hubs that process Northern electronic waste. This paper examines the implications of extended producer responsibility in one such place through the lenses of critical waste studies and the dis/articulations approach to global commodity chains, which can usefully be extended to analyze the afterlife of commodities. From Israel and the Palestinian Authority's perspectives, recently activated extended producer responsibility legislation is a common-sense way to rationalize the management of electronic waste. But from the cluster of Palestinian villages that has processed the bulk of Israel's electronic waste for more than a decade, extended producer responsibility constitutes the most recent in a series of external driving forces that have disarticulated and rearticulated their landscapes and livelihoods from external economies over the last half century. The restricted scope of reformist extended producer responsibility policies notion of “responsibility” combined with the asymmetrical terms of dis/articulation between North and South is likely to result in outcomes that not only downgrade the informal sector's position in the value chain, but also undermine their ability to upgrade the electronic waste sector in a way that could avoid further pollution. We consider the options at this junction using the heuristic of suggesting what a more temporally, geographically, and sectorally conceived “extension of responsibility” might mean for extended producer responsibility.

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The Rule of Power in Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Neoliberal Governance, and Resistance

Seidel

Tartir

2018

Palestine and Rule of Power

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Palestine Ltd.

Cited by 145 publications

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Palestinian leadership and the contemporary significance of the First Intifada

Palestinian leadership and the contemporary significance of the First Intifada

Extended responsibility or continued dis/articulation? Critical perspectives on electronic waste policies from the Israeli-Palestinian case

The Rule of Power in Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Neoliberal Governance, and Resistance

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