Latte Abdallah Stéphanie - Israelis and Palestinians in the shadows of the wall: spaces of separation and occupation

ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS IN THE SHADOWS OF THE WALL

Shedding light on the recent mutations of the Israeli separation policy, whose institutional and spatial configurations are increasingly complex, this book argues that this policy has actually reinforced the interconnectedness of Israelis and Palestinian lives and their spaces. Instead of focusing on the over-mediatized separation wall, this book deals with what it hides: its shadows. Based on fieldwork studies carried out by French, Italians, Israelis, Palestinian and Swiss researchers on the many sides of the IsraeliPalestinian divide, it highlights a new geography of occupation, specific forms of interconnectedness and power relations between Israeli and Palestinian spaces. It offers a better understanding of the transformation of peoples interactions, their experiences and the ongoing economy of exchanges created by the separation regime. This heterogeneous regime increasingly involves the participation of Palestinian and international actors. Grounded in refined decryptions of territorial realities and of experiences of social actors daily lives this book goes beyond usual political, media and security representations and discourses on conflict to understand its contemporary stakes on the ground.

Series Editor: Doris Wastl-Walter, University of Bern, Switzerland

In recent years, borders have taken on an immense significance. Throughout the world they have shifted, been constructed and dismantled, and become physical barriers between socio-political ideologies. They may separate societies with very different cultures, histories, national identities or economic power, or divide people of the same ethnic or cultural identity.

As manifestations of some of the worlds key political, economic, societal and cultural issues, borders and border regions have received much academic attention over the past decade. This valuable series publishes high quality research monographs and edited comparative volumes that deal with all aspects of border regions, both empirically and theoretically. It will appeal to scholars interested in border regions and geopolitical issues across the whole range of social sciences.

Spaces of Separation and Occupation

Edited by

STPHANIE LATTE ABDALLAH
French Institute of the Near East, CNRS, Palestinian Territories

CDRIC PARIZOT,
IREMAM, CNRS, Aix Marseille Universit, France

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Stphanie Latte Abdallah and Cdric Parizot 2015

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Israelis and Palestinians in the shadows of the wall : spaces of separation and occupation / [edited] by Stphanie Latte Abdallah and Cdric Parizot.

pages cm. (Border regions series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-4888-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4724-4889-7 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4724-4890-3 (epub) 1. Arab-Israeli conflict. 2. IsraelBoundaries. 3. PalestineBoundaries. I. Latte Abdallah, Stphanie, editor. II. Parizot, Cdric, editor. III. Title.

DS119.76.A444913 2015

956.94054dc23

2014031720

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Stphanie Latte Abdallah and Cdric Parizot

Shira Havkin

Stphanie Latte Abdallah

Emilio Dabed

Ariel Handel

Yaakov Garb

Basel Natsheh and Cdric Parizot

Nicolas Pelham

Lev Luis Grinberg

Dganit Manor

Elisabeth Marteu

Valrie Pouzol

Marc Hecker

Karine Lamarche

Esmail Nashif

Emilio Dabed is a lawyer and PhD in political sciences specialized in constitutional matters. His previous research focused on the constitutional process in Palestine. Currently, he is a director of the Human Rights Program at Al-Quds University/Bard College, Jerusalem. His latest research looks at the relations between, on the one hand, legal processes and discursive practices, and, on the other hand, political and social changes, subjectivity, and identity formation. It aims to shed light on the role that juridical phenomena plays in sociological and anthropological questions. He has published numerous articles on a variety of issues regarding politics, law, and constitutionalism in Palestine.

Yaakov Garb is a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University. He brings his three main teaching and research areas (environmental studies, social studies, and science and technology studies) to the study of border processes in the Israeli-Palestinian space. He has authored a series of empirical studies on the flows of freight and people across boundaries in this region, and is currently working on fundamental examinations of cross-boundary water and waste value chains. His other publications include studies on environmental discourse in the US, India, and Israel, on planning and transport, and on technological closure, translation, and change.

Lev Luis Grinberg is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University, Israel. He is the founding chairman of the department (20062009) and former director of the Humphrey Institute for Social Research (19982003). He is a political economist and political sociologist and has specialized in the history of the Zionist Labor Movement, Israels political economy, the sociology of the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict, and resistance movements. Among his books are: The Histadrut Above all (1993, Nevo), Introduction to Political Economy (1997, The Broadcast University), Politics and Violence in Israel/Palestine (2010, Routledge) and Mo(ve)ments of Resistance (2013, Academic Studies Press).

Ariel Handel is a postdoctoral fellow at the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ) and a research fellow at the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel. His research interests are mobilities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, mapping and spatial representations, and the political philosophy of geography. His publications include Protest: A Political Lexicon (ed., 2012, Hakibbutz Hameuhad Publishing), Geographies of Occupation (forthcoming), and several other journal papers and book chapters.

Shira Havkin is a PhD candidate in political sociology at the CERI/Sciences-Po Paris and an assistant professor at Paris Ouest Nanterre University. Her doctoral dissertation examines recent reforms in the management of Israeli border control apparatuses: the outsourcing of the military checkpoints in the Occupied Territories and the statization of the asylum procedure. Her research lies at the intersection of border and migration, state redeployment, and economic sociology. Within this general area, she studies the articulation of nationalism and neoliberalism in contemporary Israel.