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Normalizing
Occupation
The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements
Edited by Ariel Handel, Marco Allegra & Erez Maggor
"Several disciplinary and theoretical frameworks are employed and applied simultaneously, creating a kaleidoscope of complementing perspectives: political economy, urban, suburban and geographical planning, demography, political
theory, political theology, human geography, and anthropology. The settlements are studied in their full diversity and heterogeneity, shattering a common prejudice to look mainly at the religious-nationalist, ideologically driven among them. The authors show
in detail how the colonization project involves communities and agents coming from all sectors of Israeli society." - Ariella Azoulay, co-author of The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine
Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, provides an alternative
framework for understanding the process of "normalization" in the life of Jewish residents. Considering a wider range of historical and structural factors in which the colonization of the West Bank developed it allows placing its origins and everyday reality
into a wider perspective. The works collected consider the transformation of the landscape, the patterns of relationships shared by the region's residents, Palestinian and Jewish alike, and the lasting effects of Israel’s settlement policy. Stressed in particular
are such factors as urban planning, rising inequality and the retreat of the welfare state, and the changing political economy of industry and employment. In doing so, the authors collected here provide new insight into the integration and segregation processes
that are an integral part of the broader historical trends shaping Israel/Palestine.
Marco Allegra is research fellow at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociais of the University of Lisbon. His publications include Palestinesi. Storia e identita di un popolo and
the edited collection Conflict in the City: Contested Urban Spaces and Local Democracy.
Ariel Handel is the director of the Lexicon for Political Theory and co-director of the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University. He is the editor-in-chief of The Political
Lexicon of the Social Protest.
Erez Maggor is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at New York University and an Israel Institute Doctoral Fellow.
Indiana University Press | | September 2017 | 244pp | 4 b&w illus., 2 maps | 9780253024886 | Paperback | £29.99*
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