Neoliberal Developments, National Consciousness, and Political Economies of Resistance in Palestine

Seidel, Timothy

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2019.1585921

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“…Notions of self‐sustainability and self‐reliance are a form of emancipation and empowerment within the strangling political economy of the West Bank. Timothy Seidel (2019) examines self‐reliance in Palestine as a practice that expands people's capabilities and decreases dependency on industrial food production. Self‐sustainability is cultivated through practices that can be carried out by individuals—like permaculture and drip gardens.…”

Section: Self‐sustainability: Rethinking Progress From the Standpoint...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultivating biodiverse futures at the (postcolonial) botanical garden

Hassouna

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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This article examines ecological practices at the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem, West Bank. Through an analysis of the museum's botanical gardens, the article explores what it calls ‘biodiverse futures’ as a spatio‐temporal alternative to the ecological domination of settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine. While much scholarship has focused on the environmental imaginaries that have informed colonial conquest in Palestine, this paper draws attention to the ways in which these relationships extend into constructions of the future. Combining the literature on environmental violence with the literature on futurity and decolonisation, this article develops an approach that foregrounds the relevance of ‘ecological temporalities’ in examining alternatives to settler futures in Israel/Palestine. To date, only a limited number of contributions have examined environmentalism as a powerful discursive tool for constructing the future. The case of the museum gardens highlights three interrelated aspects of the production of ecological counter‐futures: futures as knowledge, futures as (bio)diversity, and futures as survival. Drawing on ethnographic material and interviews with museum staff and volunteers, this paper contributes to the study of the temporalities of environmental violence and ecological resistance in Israel/Palestine.

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Section: Self‐sustainability: Rethinking Progress From the Standpoint...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultivating biodiverse futures at the (postcolonial) botanical garden

Hassouna

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…The PA has cultivated debt-based lifestyles that foster capital accumulation for the few, for example through housing (Rabie 2021). Scholarship on the PA has analyzed its capitalist and specifically neoliberal logics (Haddad 2016;Khalidi and Samour 2011;Rabie 2013Rabie , 2021Seidel 2019;Dana 2020). Profit is privileged over equitable distribution of wealth and opportunity, underregulation abounds in "public/private partnerships," and individuation and responsibilization are endemic (e.g., Busse 2015;Taraki 2008).…”

Section: Waste Money and The Would-be Palestinian Statementioning

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Off the Grid: Prepaid Power and the Political Economy of Waste in Palestine

Stamatopoulou-Robbins

2021

Political Economy of Palestine

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“…Indeed, since the initiation of the Zionist colonisation of Palestine in the early 20th century, land has constituted the main ideological battlefield, wherein the Zionist political claim has been concisely challenged and resisted by the Palestinian indigenous rights. As Seidel (2019) affirms, disconnecting Palestinians from the land forms the basis of Israel’s settler colonial project (p. 3). Thus, agriculture as an RE strategy can serve as a vital activity to safeguard the land and preserve the people’s connection to the homeland.…”

Section: Agriculture: the Backbone Of Rementioning

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Localising the Economy as a Resistance Response: A Contribution to the “Resistance Economy” Debate in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Dana

2020

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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Recent years have seen a growing, yet unstructured, debate among Palestinian scholars and activists about the imperative of localising the economic approaches to development. This debate has revolved around the notion of “resistance economy (RE)” that places resistance at the core of the anti-colonial economic consciousness and practice. RE is envisaged as a localised response to the multifaceted crisis—generated by the dynamic interaction among Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and international donors—afflicting the Palestinian political economy. Influenced by the rich legacy of the anti-colonial experience in Palestine, the RE seeks to invigorate organised popular mobilisation and collective struggle against the settler colonial reality. However, the term is still ambiguous and underdeveloped; further, it lacks the theoretical and methodological underpinnings to allow it to be contextualised, strategised, and implemented as part of everyday economic activity. This article seeks to contribute to this debate and foster an understanding that takes into consideration the interrelationship between the economy, politics, and society in a context characterised by the repressive interplay of colonialism and neoliberalism. Finally, the article engages critically with the debate concerning the centrality of agricultural activity to the RE.

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Neoliberal Developments, National Consciousness, and Political Economies of Resistance in Palestine

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

Cultivating biodiverse futures at the (postcolonial) botanical garden

Cultivating biodiverse futures at the (postcolonial) botanical garden

Off the Grid: Prepaid Power and the Political Economy of Waste in Palestine

Localising the Economy as a Resistance Response: A Contribution to the “Resistance Economy” Debate in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

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