State Practices and Zionist Images : : Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel / / David A. Wesley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Wesley, David A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Marx, Emanuel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between Arab local authorities, their Jewish neighbors, and the agencies of the national government in regard to developing local and regional industrial areas. The author avoids reduction to simple models of binary domination, revealing instead a complex, multi-dimensional field of relations and ever-shifting lines of political maneuver and confrontation. He examines the prevailing concept of ethnic traditionalism and argues that the image of Arab traditionalism erects imaginary boundaries around the Arab localities, making government incursion disappear from view, while underpinning and rationalizing the exclusion of the Arab towns from development planning. Moreover, he shows how images of environmental protection mesh with and support such exclusion. The study includes a chronology of events, tables, maps, and photographs. This revised paperback edition with a new epilogue brings accounts of Arab land loss and struggles for economic development up to date. The author also deals with the challenges of life and research in Israel and examines the possibilities of sharing the land as the homeland of both Jews and Palestinians.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Ethnography of Macro-order Power Relations -- 1 The Lay of the Land (I): The Territorial Demon -- 2 The Lay of the Land (II): Urban Drive and the Arab Towns -- 3 The Zipporit Industrial Area -- 4 Land, Territory, and Jurisdiction: The Experience of Land Loss -- 5 The Image of Arab Traditionalism -- 6 The Appropriation of Arab Development Needs and Potential -- 7 Attempts to Break Through the Boundaries -- Conclusion -- Epilogue to the New Edition -- Chronology of Events -- Notes -- Glossary: Locality and Related Terms -- References -- Legislation Cited -- Subject Index -- Selected Author Index