Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Power, Resistance and the Struggle for Space

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The contest to maintain and reclaim space is firmly tied to the identity and culture of a displaced population. Palestinian Citizens of Israel is a study of Palestinian communities living inside the Jewish state and their attempts to disrupt and reshape the physical and abstract boundaries that contain them. Through extensive fieldwork and numerous interviews, Sharri Plonski conducts a comparative analysis of resistance movements anchored in three key sites of the Palestinian experience: the defence of housing rights in Jaffa; the protest against settlement in the Galilee region; and the campaign for Bedouin land rights in the Naqab desert. Her research investigates the dialectical relationship between power and resistance as it relates to socio-spatial segregation and the struggle for national recognition. Plonski’s examination of Palestinian activism and transgression offers valuable insight into the structures and reaches of power from within the Israeli state. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of both Middle East Studies and Palestinian-Israeli politics. Cover Author Bio Editorial: Soas Palestine Studies Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Foreword to the SOAS Palestine Studies Book Series Preface Acknowledgements A Note on Language Introduction. Ordinary and Extraordinary: Unruly Politics and the Struggle for Palestinian Space in Israel Unruly Politics: Producing Palestinian Space in Israel Theorising Relations of Power and Resistance Activating Borders Spaces of Ordinary and Extraordinary Resistance: The Cases Mapping Struggle and Space: Methods of Inquiry Structure of the Book 1. Ambiguities and Antinomies: A Brief History of Palestinian-Citizen Space and Resistance Borders: The Paradoxes of Shared Space Outlining the Limits: Enclosing, Entangling and Encountering Palestinian space Trajectories of Palestinian-Citizen Unruly Politics Inside and Outside: The Political Streams Ambiguities of Palestinian-Citizen Autonomy: The Umbrella of National Leadership Carving out a Palestinian Vision – The NGOisation of Palestinian-Citizen Politics 2. Jaffa: Popular Struggle in the Mixed City The Story of Struggle and Space in Jaffa The Dialectics of Power and Struggle in Jaffa: Palestinians in the Mixed City Evolving Encounters: The Changing Struggle for Jaffa The First Struggles: The Tension Between Exclusion and Engagement The Fine Line between Hegemonic and Non-Hegemonic Tools The Popular Committee Institutionalising the Movement: From Popular to Professional, Political to Pragmatic The Impact of the Mixed City: Carving out a Palestinian Struggle The Palestinian-Only Struggle The Joint Struggle Inverting the Mixed City: Concluding Thoughts Epilogue 3. The Galilee: Struggle within the All-Arab Enclave The Legend of Yom al-Ard (Land Day) The Lead-Up to Land Day Yisrael Koenig and the New Judaisation Trajectory Mapping the Galilee: ‘Painting By Numbers’ Producing Border Zones The Matrix of Power and Struggle in the Galilee Struggle in the Galilee: Reimagining the Hegemonic (B)Order Struggle for Living Space: Challenging the Internal Borders The Struggle for Autonomy: Living within the Boundaries Reimagining the Border: Concluding Thoughts Epilogue 4. The Naqab: Bedouin Struggles in Grey Space The Symbol of the Struggle: The Story of al-Araqib The Unrecognised Context Wars of Attrition: Creating the New Border Dynamics of Power and Resistance in the Naqab Dead Spaces Grey Spaces The Bedouin Struggle: Engaging the Lines The Regional Council for the Unrecognised Bedouin-Arab Villages of the Naqab And Then, Along Came Al-Araqib The Limits of Recognition: Concluding Thoughts Epilogue 5. New Borders and Fault Lines: Material Footprints of the Struggle for Space Carving out the Space Border Lines Ordinary and Extraordinary Resistances: The View from the Border Disarticulations and Re-articulations: Reshaping the Borders 6. Culminations and Conclusions: Theorising Palestinian-Citizen Resistance in Israeli-Jewish Space Disrupting Borders Epilogue One Last Story Appendix I The Legal-Land Regime: Selected Legal Statutes Appendix II The Spatial Order: Selected Plans and Policies Appendix III List of Interviews Notes Bibliography Index