Alexander kedar, shlomo sand, oren yiftachel, asaad ghanem, haim yakobi, nur masalha and hannah naveh. The arab citizens of israel, or israeli arabs, represent 20% of the countrys population and they define themselves as palestinian. Building a homet university of california, berkeley. In an influential essay first published in 1972, the exiled communist and african national congress activist and academic harold wolpe emphasized the role of migrancy, the pass laws, and the system of influx control in the apartheid states quest to maintain the provision of cheap labor to the industrialized centers of the white urban economy, despite increasing levels of rural.
Yiftachel, oren yakobi, haim ward, peter matthew viaf bromley, ray. Some 1200 kilometers of security fenceseparation wall have already been built, consisting of. Land and identity politics in israelpalestine by oren. Jan 01, 2008 for interpretations of ethnic democracy in israel, see sammy smooha, minority status in an ethnic democracy. Membership in the ethnostate and therefore citizenship is primarily based upon tribal affiliation. Convert xml to pdf online without any fee or registration, get your pdf file in seconds. Land, and the politics of identity israelpalestine, or sammy smooha 2001 the model of ethnic democracy. During israels fiftieth year of independence 199798, the countrys high court of. Barriers, walls, and urban ethnocracy in jerusalem springerlink. The expanding ethnocracy judaization of the public sphere the expanding ethnocracy judaization of the public sphere ghanem, asad 20110601 00. It is neither democratic nor authoritarian, with rights and capabilities depending primarily on ethnic origin and geographic location.
Constitutional patriotism, citizenship, and belonging. Land and identity politics in israelpalestine penn, 2006, coedited indigenous injustice harvard, 20, and was past chair of btselem the israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territories. Pied3405 reading lists library university of leeds. This article charts the itineraries set in motion by a word and an idea, apartheid, whose material purchase shaped the history of south africa throughout the second half of the twentieth century. The oneword title of oren yiftachel s book has a disturbing ring to it. The empirical analyses have been performed using a special file of the 1995 israeli census which matched records of respondents to their parents in the 1983 census, thereby allowing identification of the ethnicity of the third generation for a representative sample of men and women, 2534 years of age in 1995, as well as the identification of. Use the link below to share a fulltext version of this article with your friends and colleagues. First, its proper classification under the categories of democracynondemocracy, a question that is closely connected to our understanding of the nature and basic features of democracy. Mizrahi jews in israels development towns, international journal of urban and. As yiftachel observes, an ethnocracy is after all an inherently contradictory and unstable regime, with opposite forces of expansionism and resistance in constant conflict 1999, 36768, italics added. Access article in pdf questioning ethnic democracy. An ethnocracy or ethnostate is literally rule by ethnic group.
Most supporters of israel are likely to take umbrage at the. Oren yiftachel developed a model using this perspective and called it the ethnocratic model. Footnote 2 the israeli political geographer oren yiftachel. Ethnocracy the fusion of the three forcessettler society, ethnonationalism, and the ethnic logic of capitalcreates a regimetype i have called ethnocracy. Kodi archive and support file vintage software community software apk msdos cdrom software cdrom software library. Palestinians in israel are excluded from development through a process of exclusion of arab communities and the development of jewish settlements, based on the confiscation of arab land and housing demolition.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Abstract this paper aims to be one of the first thorough descriptions of the developing asylum system in the state of israel. Oren yiftachel is professor of political geography, urban planning, and public policy at bengurion university, beersheba, and the author of a number of books, including ethnocracy. However, another angle emerged when lustick, in his groundbreaking work, proposed a different concept as a theoretical frameworkthe control frameworkand he and other scholars applied it extensively to the arab. Palestinian media in a jewish ethnocracy abstract this article examines the impact of new political communication strategies upon state policy towards palestinian arab media in israel. Land and identity politics in israelpalestine by oren yiftachel.
The politics of judaizing israelpalestine oren yiftachel1. Otherness as the underlying principle in israels asylum regime. Land and identity politics in israelpalestine university of pennsylvania press, 2006. For oren yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. Otherness as the underlying principle in israels asylum. This bestselling guide provides a complete, practical, uptodate introduction to network and computer security. Jun 01, 2011 the question of the nature of the israeli regime is related to two different but connected inquiries. A timely study by two wellknown scholars offers a theoretically informed account of the political sociology of israel. The argument presented in this paper is that, despite. For interpretations of ethnic democracy in israel, see sammy smooha, minority status in an ethnic democracy. New perspectives on society and space in israel march 1999 english summaries issn 07936782 dan blumberg, anat sasson, environmental aspects of the wind regime of machteshim and ramat hovav feb. Each issue includes essays and reports on matters of broad interest reflecting diverse points of view. Software sites tucows software library shareware cdroms software capsules compilation cdrom images zx spectrum doom level cd. For oren yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested.
Mizrahi jews in israels development towns, international journal of urban and regional research, 24 2, 2000. Project muse ethnocracy land and identity politics in. Israel and the depopulated palestinian villages of 1948 kindle edition by kadman, noga, yiftachel, oren. While the majority of studies on palestinian arab media in israel have tended to focus upon patterns of media. The analysis is set within its historical context as the authors trace israels development from zionist settlement in the 1880s, through the establishment of the state in 1948, to the present day. In this essay we present a critique of the ethnic democracy model, formulated by political sociologist sammy smooha to account for israels political structure. Oren yiftachel for oren yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. The liberal viewpoint stresses the potential of the cityunlike other spacesto offer many and equal opportunities for all residents regardless of religion, gender, or ethnic affiliation, but the critical body of knowledge highlights the ways in which the city. Palestinian arab protest in israel today observatoire of. Oren yiftachel is one of the currently active critical geographers in israel who. Israel studies presents multidisciplinary scholarship on israeli history, politics, society, and culture. Yiftachel, oren, israeli society and jewishpalestinian reconciliation. Ethnocracy land and identity politics in israelpalestine oren yiftachel.
These are just a few examples of what professor oren yiftachel has described as an ethnocracy. The sites at which these forces come into contact and the significance of their interaction for the resilience or mutability of. Ethnocracy and its territorial contradictions, the middle east journal, 514 1997. This question has received considerable scholarly attention in the past two decades. New york university from the selectedworks of tally kritzmanamir march 9, 2009 otherness as the underlying principle in israels asylum regime. Primarily it was developed as national ethnocracy for regimes in contemporary national states which claim to be democratic, and it was mainy pioneered by the israeli geographer oren yiftachel to analyse ethnicallybiased policies and the asymmetrical power relations of israeli jews and palestinians.
Abstract this article analyses gaps in the university graduation rates of thirdgeneration ashkenazim and mizrahim the two major ethnic groups among israeli jews, in comparison to the same gaps among members of the second generation. Land and identity politics in israelpalestine philadelphia. Contribute to kermitt2pdfalto development by creating an account on github. Oren yiftachel, ethnocracy land and identity politics in israelpalestine. Wistrich, israel and the holocaust trauma, jewish history 11, no. Land and identity politics in israelpalestine penn press, 2006. Ethnocracy oren yiftachel university of pennsylvania. Roy, ananya alsayyad, nezar gilbert, alan, 19442010 viaf hasan, arif bayat, asef perlman, janice soliman, ahmed m. Land and identity politics in israelpalestine philadelphia, pa.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading erased from space and consciousness. Each issue features indepth analytical articles on middle east politics, culture and society, and u. To cast apartheid as an idea is to adopt saul dubows calculated gesture of defamiliarization. Temporal boundaries extend to the prestate period, although emphasis is on the state of israel. During the last two decades, smoohas voluminous work on ethnic politics in israel has gained a central position among social scientists in israel and beyond. Yoav peled, ethnic democracy and the legal construction of citizenship, 86 amer. The politics of judaizing israelpalestine yiftachel, oren 19990901 00. Ethnocracy land and identity politics in israelpalestine by oren yiftachel. Despite declaring the regime as democratic, ethnicity and not territorial citizenship is the main determinant of the allocation of rights, powers, and resource. The politics of judaizing israelpalestine yiftachel. The politics of judaizing israelpalestine find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours.
Ethnocracy land and identity politics in israelpalestine. He holds the lynn and lloyd hurst family chair in urban studies. The rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the jewish man, vol. Pdf file available peled yoav 1992 ethnic democracy and the legal construction of citizenship. The empirical analyses have been performed using a special file of the 1995 israeli census which matched records of. The next section then shortly outlines the recent emergence of an acade mic legal geography discipline. Restless itineraries social text duke university press. The politics of judaizing israelpalestine ethnocracy. Pdf on oct 1, 2008, anssi paasi and others published book. Israel has been labeled an ethnocracy by scholars such as. Jul 25, 2006 for oren yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. Palestinian arab protest in israel today observatoire. In order to do so, first introduce in a nutshell the concept of ethno cratic settler societies developed by political geographer oren yiftachel.
Theorizing and tracing the legal dimensions of a control. Ethnicization and the production of space in an israeli mixed city. The clearest examples come from countries with large oppressed groups defined by ethnicity. Oren yiftachel, social control, urban planning and ethnoclass relations. Oren yiftachel teaches political geography and urban planning at bengurion university of the negev. Request pdf on dec 16, 2002, oren yiftachel and others published ethnocracy. The expanding ethnocracy judaization of the public. A response to sammy smooha asad ghanem, nadim rouhana and oren yiftachel. One of the central issues in the study of urban politics today is the fact that many cities have become multicultural arenas. Isabelle humphries examines the city of jaffa and the bedouin villages of the negev to highlight this essentially xenophobic process.
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