Emplaced resistance in Palestine and Israel
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict gravitates constantly around the question of territorial control, notably because of the settler-colonial principle present at the core of the Zionist project. Acknowledging that space is a central tool of domination used by the Israeli authorities, this volume shows how it can also represent both a resource for and an outcome of protest, with an emphasis placed on the way it is used and produced through practices of resistance by subaltern groups.
The research relies on a comparative approach, drawing on data collected in the course of fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2016 in Palestine and Israel. It focuses on three sites of contention, which include the H2 area in Hebron (the occupied Old City, under Israeli authority south of the West Bank), the core neighbourhoods of Silwan (Wadi Hilwe and Al-Bustan, East Jerusalem) and the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, in the Negev desert (south of Israel). Through these three case studies, the book tackles different strategies that engage with the materiality of space, place, sense of place, territory, landscape, network and scale, showing the mobilization of a real spatial repertoire of contention. The different regimes of control enforced in the three sites give rise to strategies of resistance that are first and foremost emplaced, i.e. rooted in the local.
Providing an original comparison between flashpoints of the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli politics of dispossession and expulsion, the book is a key resource for scholars and readers interested in political geography, political science, sociology and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Marion Lecoquierre is a French geographer, holding a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki and specializes in the local practices and representations connected to the territorial struggle in Palestine and Israel.
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The Arab-Israeli conflict continues to be the centre of academic and popular attention. This series brings together the best of the cutting-edge work now being undertaken by predominantly new and young scholars. Although largely falling within the field of political science, the series also includes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary contributions.
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Palestinian Popular Struggle
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Majid Ibrahim Al-Haj
Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance
Perceptions, Attitudes and Strategies
Liyana Kayali
The Palestinian Prisoners Movement
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Emplaced Resistance in Palestine and Israel
The Cases of Hebron, Silwan and al-Araqib
Marion Lecoquierre
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Emplaced resistance in Palestine and Israel The Cases of Hebron, Silwan and Al-Araqib
Marion Lecoquierre
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Names: Lecoquierre, Marion, author.
Title: Emplaced resistance in Palestine and Israel : the cases of Hebron, Silwan and al-Araqib / Marion Lecoquierre.
Other titles: Routledge studies on the Arab-Israeli conflict ; 30.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge studies on the Arab-Israeli conflict ; 30 | This volume is based on a PhD thesis entitled Holding on to place, Spatialities of resistance in Al-Araqib, Silwan and Hebron, defended at the European University Institute (Florence) in February 2016 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021023745 (print) | LCCN 2021023746 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138555716 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032130620 (paperback) | ISBN 9781315149684 (ebook) | ISBN 9781351369787 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781351369770 (epub) | ISBN 9781351369763 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Arab-Israeli conflict--1993- | Palestinian Arabs--West Bank--Hebron. | Palestinian Arabs--Jerusalem. | Bedouins--Israel--Araqib. | Land settlement--West Bank--Hebron. | Land settlement--Jerusalem. | Land settlement--Israel--Araqib. | Political geography.
Classification: LCC DS119.76 .L42 2021 (print) | LCC DS119.76 (ebook) | DDC 956.05/3--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021023745
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ISBN: 978-1-138-55571-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-13062-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-14968-4 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781315149684
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Contents
- Introduction
- Three sites of contention - Al-Araqib, Silwan, Hebron
- Inhabiting - The value of presence and the right to place
- Planning - Conceiving and building space: A power game
- Protesting - Disrupting hegemony in the public space and sphere
- Sanctifying - Producing a sacred geography
- Globalizing - International networks of solidarity and advocacy.
- Conclusion: emplaced territorialization
Figures
- 1.1 Localization of the three sites of contention.
- 1.2 Map of the unrecognized villages and Bedouin towns in the Negev desert.
- 1.3 The southern part of Al-Araqib.
- 1.4 The encampment of the residents after the destruction of 2014.
- 1.5 The cemetery of Al-Araqib seen from the south.
- 1.6 The land around the cemetery was ploughed in July 2014.
- 1.7 Map of Wadi Hilwe and Al-Bustan.
- 1.8 Regimes of closure and control within H2.
- 1.9 Blocked roads in H2.
- 2.1 Graffiti in Wadi Hilwe Street Here is Silwan.
- 2.2 Two young men write Hebron and Palestine on a wall during the Open Shuhada Street demonstration.