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NOR M ALIZING
OCCUPATION
The Politics of Everyday Life in the
West Bank Settlements
Edited by Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel,
and Erez Maggor
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Names: Handel, Ariel, editor | Allegra, Marco, editor. |
Maggor, Erez, editor
Title: Normalizing occupation : the politics of everyday life in the
West Bank settlements / edited by Ariel Handel, Marco Allegra,
and Erez Maggor.
Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016025307 (print) | LCCN 2016040106 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780253024732 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253024886
(pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253025050 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Land settlement— West Bank. | Jews— West Bank. |
Jews— West Bank— Social conditions. | Palestinian Arabs— West
Bank— Social conditions.
Classification: LCC DS110.W47 N67 2017 (print) | LCC DS110.W47
(ebook) | DDC 956.95/3044— dc23
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Contents
Acknowl edgments vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction: The Politics of Everyday Life in the
West Bank Settlements / Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel,
and Erez Maggor 1
Part I— Across the Green Line: Suburbanization, Privatization,
and the Settlements
1 The Settlements and the Relationship between Privatization
and the Occupation / Danny Gutwein 21
2 Settlement as Suburbanization: The Banality of Colonization /
David Newman 34
3 “Outside Jerusalem— Yet so Near”: Ma’ale Adumim, Jerusalem,
and the Suburbanization of Israel’s Settlement Policy /
Marco Allegra 48
4 Educating Architecture / Miki Kratsman and Ruthie Ginsburg 64
Part II— Between Cities and Outposts: The Heterogeneity
of the Settlements and the Settlers
5 Embedded Politics in a West Bank Settlement / Hadas Weiss 75
6 Informal Outposts in the West Bank: Normality in Gray Space /
Erez Tzfadia 92
7 Between Ghetto- Politics and Geopolitics: Ultraorthodox
Settlements in the West Bank / Lee Cahaner 112
8 Beyond Gush Emunim: On Con temporary Forms of Messianism
among Religiously Motivated Settlers in the West Bank /
Assaf Harel 128
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Part III— Forced Coexistence: Palestinians and Jewish Settlers
9 From Kubaniya to Outpost: A Genealogy of the Palestinian
Conceptualization of Jewish Settlement in a Shifting National
Context / Honaida Ghanim 151
10 Integrated or Segregated? Israeli- Palestinian Employment
Relations in the Settlements / Amir Paz- Fuchs and Yaël Ronen 172
11 Jerusalem’s Colonial Space as Paradox: Palestinians Living
in the Settlements / Wendy Pullan and Haim Yacobi 193
Appendix: The Settlements 211
List of Contributors 217
Index 221
Acknowl edgments
T
he initial impetus for this proj ect was the workshop Settlements in the West
Bank (1967–2014): New Perspectives, which was held at the Minerva Humanities
Center in Tel Aviv University on June 2014. Our gratitude goes out to the M inerva
Humanities Center as well as to the French Research Institute in Jerusalem
and the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem for their generous support of the work-
shop. We extend our sincere appreciation to the workshop’s participants and audi-
ence, and especially to the sessions’ discussants: Ian Lustick, Hadas Weiss, Sandi
Kedar, Dani Filc, and Ronen Shamir, who provided impor tant feedback and
comments. Rebecca Tolen of Indian University Press displayed g reat confidence
in the proj ect even when it was only in its initial stages, and we are indebted to
her for helping us getting it off the ground. Also at Indiana University Press, we
would like to thank Dee Mortensen, Paige Rasmussen and Jennika Baines for
their generous assistance throughout the editing pro cess. We thank Mary C.
Ribesky for overseeing the copyediting stage, Alexander Trotter for his help with
creating the index, and Alessandro Colombo, who was kind enough to help us in
producing the maps. The timely financial support we received from the Depart-
ment of Sociology at New York University is also greatly appreciated. Most of all,
we are greatly indebted to the book’s contributors, without which this collection
would not have been pos si ble.
Fi nally, we would like to commemorate the memory of our former col-
league, Michael Feige, who was one of the four victims of the terror attack that
took place in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2016. Michael, an admired teacher and a re-
nowned scholar of Israeli society, was trained at the Hebrew University of Jerusa-
lem and taught at Ben- Gurion University, where he most recently served as the
head of the Israel Studies program. A scholar of the national- religious settler
movement and author of several key studies on Gush Emunim, Michael was
among the most vibrant participants of the workshop held at the Minerva Hu-
manities Center in 2014; his death came as a shock and represents a great loss for
us all.
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Abbreviations
CBS— Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics
FSU— Former Soviet Union
HCJ— Israeli High Court of Justice
HRW—H uman Rights Watch
IDF— Israeli Defense Forces
ILO— International Labor Office
JIIS— Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
NLT— Israeli National Labor Tribunal
OT— Occupied Territories
PNA— Palestinian National Authority
WB— West Bank
YESHA— Judea Samaria and Gaza Council
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