Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2017
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
48 (2017) 127-150
Keywords:
Arab-Israeli conflict Peace 1993-
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Law and legislation
;
Urban transportation policy
;
Palestinian Arabs Government policy
;
Jerusalem (Israel) Politics and government
;
Jerusalem Old City (Israel) History
Abstract:
This article focuses on the increasing intervention and involvement of Israeli state apparatuses in Palestinian urban services and systems in East Jerusalem since the beginning of the millennium. I term this development the “governmentalization processes,” which indicates a change in the urban relations in East Jerusalem. From 1967, when East Jerusalem came under Israeli rule, these relations were characterized by a great extent of managerial and functional autonomy of Palestinian urban institutions and services. My research emphasizes the development of a new kind of political and urban relations, borne not only by the sovereign means of enforcement but also by the “soft” power of governmentality, manifested in the conduct of urban functions and services. Governmentalization processes in East Jerusalem increase Israeli control over large portions of urban function by creating dependence on state mechanisms. Concurrently, these processes promote adaptation of the population and Palestinian stakeholders to Israeli governmental mechanisms by implementing Israeli administrative and managerial norms.The article presents two layers of analysis: (1) a historical and geopolitical perspective that situates this emerging governmental relation in comparison to previous configurations of governmental relations in East Jerusalem; (2) an analysis of a reorganization plan conducted in the Palestinian public transportation system between 1998 and 2004. This transportation system – like many other public services in East Jerusalem – has operated since 1967 with a great measure of detachment from the Israeli state mechanism, in a manner comparable to that of phenomena termed “urban informality” in urban studies literature. The article offers a critical analysis of the methods, means, and outcomes of the state agents’ efforts to formalize the Palestinian transportation system. I term those arrangements “subformal,” because they manifest a form of formalization whose methods and outcomes thoroughly deviate from Israeli administrative standards, facilitating the “inferiorization” of Palestinian urban function and services.The article concludes with a proposal that East Jerusalem be understood as a form of “trapped urbanism,” characterized by the elimination of its functional affinities and urban flows from the West Bank as a result of the separation wall and the consequent urban-functional and economic deterioration. These processes have prompted both the governmentalization of East Jerusalem and its colonization and marginalization.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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