Yacobi, H;
Tzfadia, E;
(2019)
Neo-settler colonialism and the re-formation of territory: Privatization and nationalization in Israel.
Mediterranean Politics
, 24
(1)
pp. 1-19.
10.1080/13629395.2017.1371900.
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Abstract
In this article we critically analyse the production of Israeli territory vis a vis the ongoing transformation of land and planning policies from ones based on pure nationalism to those purporting neo-liberal logic. Unlike the existing literature − including the most recent critical body of knowledge on planning, resource management and public policy in Israel − we contend that this transformation must be understood within the framework of settler colonialism. Our main argument is that the growing dominance of neo-liberal policies, expressed in the form of new public management, privatization of space, planning and territorial management, is bound up with Israel’s settler-colonial politics. Based on our detailed study of the dynamics of the privatization of space in Israel, we conceptualize the interplay between centralistic-national territorial management and new public management, free market-driven, privatization-prone, liberal planning and land policies as neo-settler colonialism. This concept focuses on the symbiotic relationships between these two vectors, with the latter providing a new mechanism of colonial control.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Neo-settler colonialism and the re-formation of territory: Privatization and nationalization in Israel |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13629395.2017.1371900 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2017.1371900 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Israel, settler-colonialism, new public management, decentralization privatization, neo-liberalism, territory, land, planning |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574587 |
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