Urban neoliberalism vs. ethno-national division: The case of West Jerusalem's shopping malls

Shtern, Marik

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2015.11.019

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“…It is primarily Palestinian residents of Jerusalem who navigate the urban layout and security infrastructure into public spaces and institutions positioned within the Jewish city. As studies find (Baumann, ; Greenberg Raanan, ; Shtern, ) this is in many instances not by choice or interest in mixing, as by necessity and a lack of services and amenities in East Jerusalem. Despite the superficial one‐ness of the city, it is characterized strongly by invisible borders, demarcating spaces of belonging and exclusion for different groups.…”

Section: Background: Jerusalemmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Despite the residential segregation and conflict around mobility infrastructure, everyday interaction and contact between Jewish and Palestinian populations remains common. Essential needs such as hospital or official visits, shopping and education and substantial employment all bring Palestinian into West Jerusalem, with over 50% of the East Jerusalem workers employed in West Jerusalem (Shtern, ).…”

Section: Background: Jerusalemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies of mixed spaces in the city found that those which were frequented by both Jews and Palestinians were primarily located in the Western part of the city or on boundary zones, and marked by an international, tourist‐oriented character, blurring the typical ethnic divisions (Shtern, 2010, ). A study of Jerusalem women's travel habits (Greenberg Raanan, ; Greenberg Raanan & Shoval, ) found Palestinian women spending 40% of their time outside the home in Jewish areas, while Jewish women spend less than 1% in Palestinian areas.…”

Section: Background: Jerusalemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Physical walls, invisible barriers: Palestinian women's mobility in Jerusalem

Kerzhner

Kaplan

Silverman

2018

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This paper studies the impact of multi-layered transport exclusion on the mobility and accessibility of Palestinian women in Jerusalem. Ethnic segregation, hostile social climate, poor infrastructure and low levels of public transportation create multifaceted barriers to daily travel throughout the city. This research sheds light on the individual needs and decisions of women in making their travel choices in an exclusionary urban environment. This research is based on eight in-depth interviews and 38 participants in focusgroup of Palestinian women living in East Jerusalem. It examines their public transport and private car use, in light of physical and psychological barriers. Interviews find that cultural and social pressures and the sense of exclusion and fear pose significant limitations to public transport use and destination choice, alongside poor infrastructure, low service levels and discriminatory planning policies. Many women internalize expectations of violence and exclusionary linguistic and visual cues, which serve as fear-based barriers for public transport use. Women's responses fall into a number of categories: avoiding West Jerusalem and minimizing travel; adopting private cars as safer and more practical or, at times, accepting and barrelling through fears. Policy implications include both immediate changes to symbology and behaviour of transport personnel, and long term implications about consciously-inclusive route and infrastructure planning. ---. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/rsp3 299 KEYWORDS fear-based exclusion, gender and mobility, Jerusalem, public transport, segregation 1 | INTRODUCTION Access to spaces and activities throughout a city is a crucial component of social inclusion and personal well-being, and the equity of transportation services has gained increasing attention. Research has focused not just on the distribution of services, but on the ability of individuals and groups to make effective use of them. Transport exclusion (Lucas, 2012) identifies multiple barriers to mobility, many of which are important particularly at the individual level.The new mobilities paradigm (Sheller & Urry, 2006) has come to foreground the significance of subjective personal experience in travel, but has not been previously applied to the model of transport exclusion to analyse mode choices and trip suppression. Focusing on women allows an exploration of intersecting barriers, both of gender in a patriarchal society and of minority status in a diverse city.The purpose of this paper is to characterize the experiences and travel habits of Palestinian women in Jerusalem and provide an empirical analysis of the mechanisms underlying fear-based exclusion. The study methodology uses focus groups and in-depth interviews to identify the structural, social and emotional issues that restrict accessibility.Jerusalem is a highly contested and divided city, and the political and social climate for marginalized minority women in the city can shed light on the daily experiences minorities in increasingly diverse ...

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Section: Background: Jerusalemmentioning

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Section: Background: Jerusalemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background: Jerusalemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Physical walls, invisible barriers: Palestinian women's mobility in Jerusalem

Kerzhner

Kaplan

Silverman

2018

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…Political communication studies have often neglected investigating local contexts (Lang, 2000), whose importance Friedland (2016, p. 25) explains: "Citizens live in blocks and in neighborhoods, which […] determine their schools, their taxes, their food choices; their transportation and livelihoods." This is particularly true for a city like Jerusalem, which is structured by contestation and inequalities along ethnic and religious lines (Shtern, 2016), which are in turn often reflected and reinforced through language use. In Jerusalem, we can expect this divide to map onto the political discourse around voter mobilization and demobilization.…”

Section: The Local Political Context: Jerusalem As a Contested Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Jerusalem has been considered contested since the 1967 War, when the Israeli government annexed the Jordanian part to the Israeli Western part of the city. Palestinian residents remaining in the city were given "permanent residency," contingent upon proving continuous physical presence in the city, and prohibiting them from voting in national elections or holding an Israeli passport (Shtern, 2016). They are entitled to vote in municipal elections, and can run for the Municipal Council -though only Israeli citizens may run for Mayor.…”

Section: The Local Political Context: Jerusalem As a Contested Spacementioning

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Mobilization vs. Demobilization Discourses on Social Media

Kligler-Vilenchik

Kedem

Maier

et al. 2020

Political Communication

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While scholarly attention has been devoted to social media's potential mobilizing function, they may also contribute to demobilization discourses: social communication actively promoting nonvoting. This paper examines discourses around mobilization vs. demobilization in the context of the municipal elections in Jerusalem. As the sweeping majority of East Jerusalem Palestinians have continuously been boycotting Jerusalem's municipal elections, this is a potent case through which to examine how demobilization functions in action, through social media conversations. Using a mixed-methods analysis of Twitter contents as structured by different languages, our findings show how mobilization and demobilization discourses can co-occur during the same election event. Users of different languages-reflecting different social and political identities-interpret the elections in contrasting ways, with tangible implications for (in)equality in political participation. The study thus contributes theoretically to several domains of political communication, including election studies, local politics, and language fragmentation in online political discourse.

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Issues of integration, language and identity among Palestinian students at an Israeli “Hebrew‐speaking” University

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Ron

2023

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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This study examines the experiences of Palestinian students at one of the largest universities in Israel, where most of the faculty members and students are Jewish and the language of study is Hebrew. A thematic content analysis of 15 in‐depth interviews was conducted with Palestinian students who are citizens of Israel or permanent residents living in East Jerusalem. It revealed the challenges at a Jewish‐dominated university on both an academic and a social level. Participants reported that increased exposure to their Jewish counterparts and acquiring greater proficiency in Hebrew facilitated improved intergroup contact with Jewish students. In contrast, the constraints of asymmetry, political tension, and a lack of Hebrew proficiency acted as barriers and were described as major causes of division between Palestinian and Jewish students. Furthermore, constant exposure to Jewish majority culture and the Hebrew language is found to be linked to a strong sense of Palestinian group identity. These findings expand our understanding of the interrelations between language, power and identity in asymmetric intergroup relationships.

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Urban neoliberalism vs. ethno-national division: The case of West Jerusalem's shopping malls

Cited by 42 publications

References 22 publications

Physical walls, invisible barriers: Palestinian women's mobility in Jerusalem

Physical walls, invisible barriers: Palestinian women's mobility in Jerusalem

Mobilization vs. Demobilization Discourses on Social Media

Issues of integration, language and identity among Palestinian students at an Israeli “Hebrew‐speaking” University

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