Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy De-development and Beyond [Paperback]

The volume brings together cutting-edge political economy analyses of the Palestinian people: those living in the occupied territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those living within Israel, and refugees in Arab states. It is a must-read for those who wish to understand the historical origins and contemporary realities that face Palestinians.Foreword; Sara Roy Introduction: Decolonising the Study of the Political Economy of the Palestinian People; Mandy Turner and Omar Shweiki PART I: DE-DEVELOPMENT EXPLORED 1. The Economic Strategies of Occupation: Confining Development and Buying-off Peace; Sahar Taghdisi-Rad 2. The Political Economy of Western Aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Since 1993; Mandy Turner 3. Hydro-apartheid and Water Access in Israel-Palestine: Challenging the Myths of Cooperation and Scarcity; Clemens Messerschmid 4. (En)gendering De-development in East Jerusalem: Thinking Through the 'Everyday'; Nadera Shalhoub-Kerkovian and Rachel Busbridge PART II: DE-DEVELOPMENT APPLIED 5. Palestinian Refugees: from 'Spoilers' to Agents of Development; Ingrid Jaradat Gassner 6. Impeded Development: the Political Economy of the Palestinian Arabs Inside Israel; Mtanes Shehadeh and Raja Khalidi 7. State-directed 'Development' as a Tool for Dispossessing the Indigenous Palestinian Bedouin-Arabs in the Naqab; Ismael Abu-Saad 8. Planning the Divide: Israel's 2020 Master Plan and its Impact on East Jerusalem; Rami Nasrallah PART III: DE-DEVELOPMENT RESISTED 9. Neoliberalism and the Contradictions of the Palestinian Authority's State-building Programme; Raja Khalidi and Sobhi Samour 10. The Role of the Tunnel Economy in Redeveloping Gaza; Nicolas Pelham 11. Before and Beyond Neoliberalism: the Political Economy of National Liberation, the PLO and 'amal ijtima'i; Omar Shweiki 12. Learning the Lessons of Oslo: Statebuilding and Freedoms in Palestine; Mushtaq H. Khan

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