Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine<i>Nakba</i>and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics

Wolfe, Patrick

doi:10.1080/2201473x.2012.10648830

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“…Direct disciplinary mechanisms aim at displacing and replacing the native, thus indigenizing settlers and settler space (Wolfe, 2012). According to the narratives, this strategy imposes tangible exclusion and elimination through the sensations and emotions of apprehension and fear that silence women's wishes and desires.…”

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The biopolitics of declassing Palestinian professional women in a settler-colonial context

Abu‐Rabia‐Queder

2017

Current Sociology

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This article argues that the biopolitics of declassing Palestinian professional women in Israel, which constitutes part of the logic of eliminating the native, is mediated by colonial violence that secures labor market class sovereignty for settlers. In this context, the term declassing refers to rendering this class invisible by disregarding the women’s presence and/or value in the labor market. The study unpacks the logic of elimination through the racialized, everyday lived experience of middle-class professional women in Bedouin society who succeeded in entering the Jewish workplace. These women face sophisticated erasure tactics, paralleling various manifestations of the direct politics of fear that discipline the body, will and mind, as well as indirect opposition reflected in the settler-colonial reinforcement of patriarchal power against women. This article reveals concealed violent forms of power practiced by the colonialists to declass Palestinian women and preserve colonialist class superiority in the labor market.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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The biopolitics of declassing Palestinian professional women in a settler-colonial context

Abu‐Rabia‐Queder

2017

Current Sociology

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“…INPA’s territorial practices, then, de facto control and dispossess Palestinians, highlighting the continued juxtaposition of settler and native that is a central characteristic of colonial regimes. Yet, other practices are also at play here that are meant to eliminate the native through integration and normalization—specifically, by making the national parks into sites of modern and global tourism—practices that are more characteristic of settler colonial regimes (Busbridge, 2018; Veracini, 2006; Wolfe, 2006, 2012). Coercion, normalization, and cooperation—central facets of colonial and settler colonial regimes—are thus intertwined in these stories and manifest in spectacular battles over the landscape of East Jerusalem.…”

Section: Walaje: Refa’im Valley National Parkmentioning

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Nof kdumim: Remaking the ancient landscape in East Jerusalem’s national parks

Braverman

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This article explores two national parks in East Jerusalem and their legal administration as the focus of contradictory and complementary attempts at preservation, colonization, and normalization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with, and observations of, officials from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and others, I expose the Judaizing of the landscape in Jerusalem. Nature never stands for itself; it is always an echo of a human presence and, in this case, of a Jewish past and its modern reunion. The project of imagining the natural landscape as one that embodies an ancient past—what Israeli officials have referred to in our interviews as nof kdumim—and the contemporary Jewish people as those who hold the key to its revival as such, is a central aspect of Israel’s colonial dispossession agenda in East Jerusalem and a prerequisite to the land becoming Jewish in practice. Focusing on the perspectives of Israel’s nature officials, this article highlights not only the imaginary but also the legal technologies of erasing and remaking the national park landscape and the tensions between personal and collective, inclusion and exile, and memory and erasure that it inhabits. Arguably, while the identity of the Jewish settler as a nature lover who has returned to her lost Indigenous land is strengthened by the ancient biblical landscape of nof kdumim, the Palestinian is only granted authenticity and Indigeneity when she does not engage in what Israel perceives as “refugee camp” landscaping, and when she is willing to practice traditional forms of farming (or adam ba’har) so as to normalize this place as a universal tourist recreation site. Even then, however, the Palestinian’s labor goes to support orientalist environmental imaginaries. The natural landscape of East Jerusalem is thus recruited, only to discover that it has always been Jewish.

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“…As in other settler-colonial situations, diversity and differences among the settler population did not blur the settler-native distinction (Wolfe, 1994, p. 94). This highlights a distinct feature of settler-colonialism in Israel but does not negate it; on the contrary, observing that the Zionist logic of elimination is more exclusive than in Australia or the US, Wolfe argues that ‘Zionist policy in Palestine constituted an intensification of, rather than a departure from, settler-colonialism’ (Wolfe, 2012, p. 136).…”

Section: Israel and Settler-colonialismmentioning

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Colonial imprints: settler-colonialism as a fundamental feature of Israeli constitutional law

Masri

2017

International Journal of Law in Context

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link Abstract:Many constitutional questions in Israel are dealt with through the lens of the nation-state paradigm where the state is constitutionally associated with an ethnically and religiously defined majority group. Thus, many of the challenges that face Israeli society and the legal system are often presented as a result of an exceptionally antagonistic majority-minority relationship in a nation-state. This article offers a novel way of analysing the Israeli constitutional regime using the framework of settler-colonialism. It argues that adding the settler-colonial lens will help better understand many features of Israeli constitutional law. Drawing on theoretical frameworks developed by theorists of colonialism, the article explores a number of foundational aspects of Israeli constitutional law and demonstrates how they were shaped, and continue to be shaped, by settlercolonialism. The article argues that settler-colonialism is one of the central features that animate Israeli constitutional law.

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Purchase by Other Means: The PalestineNakbaand Zionism’s Conquest of Economics

Cited by 66 publications

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The biopolitics of declassing Palestinian professional women in a settler-colonial context

The biopolitics of declassing Palestinian professional women in a settler-colonial context

Nof kdumim: Remaking the ancient landscape in East Jerusalem’s national parks

Colonial imprints: settler-colonialism as a fundamental feature of Israeli constitutional law

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