Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Jerusalem Quarterly (Institute of Jerusalem Studies)
Angaben zur Quelle:
89 (2022) 10-31
Keywords:
Land tenure
;
Land settlement Government policy
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Economic aspects
;
Neoliberalism
;
Arab-Israeli conflict
;
Walajah (West Bank)
;
Wadi Fukin (West Bank)
Abstract:
This article examines the strategies of land use and property that Palestinians have implemented to oppose and complicate processes of land dispossession under changing political-economic circumstances. Specifically, it focuses on the period from the beginning of the 1980s until the Oslo accords, and on the post-Oslo era. Through an in-depth analysis of site-specific practices of land use and property in the villages of al-Walaja and Wadi Fukin, it argues that in the rural areas of the West Bank, from the pre- to the post-Oslo period, the core of the property strategy through which Palestinians have advanced claims over the land has evolved from a set of collective relationships into an individual, market-based relationship. Based on extensive ethnographical fieldwork carried out in 2018 and 2019, this article brings together insights from the fields of agrarian political economy, settler colonial studies, and indigenous studies to question the assumption that individual ownership of land is an effective protection against land dispossession, especially in settler-colonial contexts.
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