Alaa Tartir

Timothy Seidel

Tariq Dana

This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism. Based on original empirical fieldwork, the contributors to this book adopt interdisciplinary and decolonial approaches in their examination of the intricate functions and structures of domination that permeate Palestinian life by illuminating the power dynamics at play and revealing the mechanisms that sustain the settler-colonial regime. This book identifies sites of colonial control and domination exerted on Palestine by Israel, and demonstrates how these sites of control are also sites of Palestinian resistance. The first section explores the political sites of control by focusing on governmentality, institutions, and technologies and mechanisms of control including how Israel manages access to health, life and death. The second section examines the economic mechanisms of exploitation, dispossession, and de-development including banking, taxation and the relationships between finance capital, aid and military occupation. The third section turns attention to environmental sites of control, focusing on land, indigeneity, space and racial capitalism. Finally, section four scrutinizes the intellectual sites of control, highlighting how norms, narratives, and knowledge production perpetuate domination.

Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism

Resisting Domination in Palestine

The Palestinian Authority (PA) occupies a singularly ambiguous position within Israel/Palestine. Created after the Oslo Accords in 1994, it has been defined ever since by an enduring question: who is it meant to serve?In Policing Palestine, Alaa Tartir looks at developments since 2007 in search of an answer. Drawing on several years of original empirical research, and foregrounding the voices of Palestinians themselves to create a powerful narrative framework, he concludes that Palestinians face multiple levels of oppression, including from their own national governing body.Deconstructing the PA state-building project from below, Tartir lays bare the consequences of an aid-dictated and donor-driven state-building process: the criminalisation of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli colonial occupation; the professionalisation of authoritarianism in the aftermath of the security sector reform venture; and the securitisation of peace as a manifestation of the stability-first mantra of the international aid framework.

Securitising Peace and Criminalising Resistance in the West Bank

Policing Palestine

Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives

Political Economy of Palestine

This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance. The project considers expressions of the rule of power in two particular ways: settler colonialism and neoliberalism. As power is always accompanied by resistance, the authors engage with and explores forms of everyday resistance to the logics and regimes of neoliberal governance and settler colonialism. They investigate wide-ranging issues and dynamics related to international governance, liberal peacebuilding, statebuilding, and development, the claim to politics, and the notion and practice of resistance. This work will be of interest for academics focusing on modern Middle Eastern politics, international relations, as well as for courses on contemporary conflicts, peacebuilding, and development.

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