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dc.contributor.authorMONTERESCU, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-15T13:46:05Z
dc.date.available2016-03-15T13:46:05Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationWorld development, 2011, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 270-281
dc.identifier.issn0305-750X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/40187
dc.description.abstractEthnic relations between the Palestinian and Jewish communities in ethnically mixed towns in Israel are marked by class divides, political fragmentation, and perception of alienation vis-à-vis place and other. Analyzing patterns of communal identity politics, this article revisits the spatial history of Jaffa since 1948. Against theories of urban ethnocracy predicated on the convergence of state policies and capitalist accumulation, which in turn engender longstanding spatial segregation between Jews and Arabs and between new and old residents, I argue that it is precisely the indeterminate “contact zones” between communities and spaces that constitute the political and cultural realities in these cities. Proposing a relational reading of these spatial dynamics, this article shows that in contradistinction to the basic premise of the nation-state, in Jaffa as well as other mixed towns, the coupling between space and identity collapses. The concepts of “spatial heteronomy” and “stranger relations” are proposed to characterize the challenge raised by ethnically mixed towns to the Jewish state and to the ethnonational logic that guides it.
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofWorld development
dc.titleEstranged natives and indigenized immigrants : a relational anthropology of ethnically mixed towns in Israel
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.027
dc.identifier.volume39
dc.identifier.startpage270
dc.identifier.endpage281
dc.identifier.issue2


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