Palestinians and East Jerusalem
Under Neoliberal Settler Colonialism

By (author) Bruno Huberman

ISBN13: 9780755649051

Imprint: I.B. Tauris

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 26/06/2025

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Description
Over the last two decades, the Israeli government has implemented policies for the development of East Jerusalem. These comprise urban revitalization as well as professional training and the promotion of entrepreneurship for the Palestinians. But how do these policies co-exist under Israeli settler colonial power? This book focuses on the contradiction between the rise of neoliberal development in East Jerusalem and the simultaneous continuation of Israeli settler colonialism. It argues that the combination of settler colonialism and neoliberalism allows for the ‘primitive accumulation of capital’ to also occur permanently through deceptive soft forms. More than this, based on theoretical research, interviews, and an analysis of race and class relations in East Jerusalem, the book shows that neoliberal development is used to facilitate the reproduction of racial hierarchies, settler privileges and the pacification of the Palestinian residents, where these outcomes are presented as the ‘natural’ result of market relations. The author calls this environment ‘neoliberal settler colonialism’ and explores Palestinians' new acts of resistance that exist ambivalently within this structure. A significant theoretical contribution, the study highlights a new settler colonial and neoliberal sociability that co-opts the exploited and oppressed.
Introduction Chapter 1 - Colonialisms, Capitalism and (Neo)liberalism The Political Economy of Settler Colonialism: Settlers, Land and Labour Racism and Capitalism: Soft Colonial Dispossession and Pacification The two faces of Neoliberal Colonialism: Dispossession, Administration and the “Entrepreneur Carrot” Settler Colonialism and Neoliberal Urbanism Resistance against the ambivalences of Settler Colonial-Neoliberal Rule Chapter 2 - Conflict, Race and Class in the Crisis of Neoliberal Apartheid in Jerusalem Neoliberal Apartheid: Segregation, Dependence and Conflict The Political Economy of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in Jerusalem in the 20th Century Crisis and Neoliberal Urbanism in Post-Oslo Jerusalem The Contradictions of the Neoliberal Apartheid in Jerusalem: Land, Labour and Class Conclusion Chapter 3 Neoliberal Israelization of East Jerusalem: Palestinian Inclusion, (De-)Development and Pacification Neoliberal Development as the “carrot” for Pacifying the Palestinians in the OPT and in Israel The Neoliberal Israelization in East Jerusalem in the 2010s De-Development and Israelization: Building the Neoliberal Pacification Urban Revitalization and Industrial Zones in EJ: Gentrification and Marginalization Completing the Neoliberal Pacification: Culture, Education and Community Police Conclusion Chapter 4 Neoliberal Anticolonialism in the Palestinian Resistance: Tourism, High-Tech and Native Entrepreneur Activism The Fragmentation of Neoliberal Anticolonialism and Economy of Resistance Neoliberal Urbanism, Right to Housing and Palestinian City Planners Entrepreneurship, Debt and Proletarization of Palestinian Women Palestinian High-Tech Entrepreneurship in Jerusalem: Market Emancipation in the dispute for the Youth Hearts and Minds Palestinian Elites in EJ, Neoliberal Development and Commodification of the Palestinian Identity Conclusion Conclusion
  • Colonialism & imperialism
  • National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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