Multiple Trespasses Female Israeli Artists Make Uncommissioned Street Art

Abstract

Multiples transgressions. Le Street art des artistes israéliennes Cet article analyse la façon dont les Israéliennes s’adonnent aux arts de la rue. Elles transgressent non seulement l’évidence de l’appropriation capitaliste du contrôle de l’espace public, mais aussi les frontières normatives des activités interdites aux femmes. Leurs transgressions se fondent sur des stratégies historiquement définies comme féminines, mais aussi en détournant l’ordre masculine dominant.

Towards a ‘Post‐Neoliberal’ Mode of Housing Regulation? The Israeli Social Protest of Summer 2011

“…During the initial two weeks of the protest, the Netanyahu government tried to either denounce the protesters as spoiled kids or demonize them as left‐wing radicals seeking to undermine the legitimacy of the state (Amram, ). When it became obvious that this strategy would fail, in August 2011 Netanyahu appointed his own committee of mainstream economists headed by Manuel Trajtenberg to lend ‘an attentive ear to the protest' (Trajtenberg, : 2) and propose solutions for the social failures. However, due to the composition of the committee and its narrow agenda (restricted by the paradigm of fiscal austerity), both the analysis and recommendations remained within a neoliberal rationality.…”

“…While the protesters argued that the market was the problem, the final report of the Trajtenberg Committee co‐opted their social justice language into market solutions (Ram and Filc, ). With regard to housing policies, the report suggested increasing the overall supply of apartments, encouraging the construction of long‐term rentals and offering higher rent allowances (Trajtenberg, : 39). According to one of the heads of the above‐mentioned alternative commission, the establishment of the Trajtenberg Committee was a ‘brilliant move on part of the government' (interview) because the social movement was, from then on, losing the initiative and public support.…”