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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493185803321

Autore

Wesley David A.

Titolo

State practices and Zionist images : shaping economic development in Arab towns in Israel / / David A. Wesley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2013]

©2006

ISBN

0-85745-907-4

Edizione

[Revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

338.9569400917/4927

Soggetti

Palestinian Arabs - Israel - Economic conditions

Bureaucracy - Israel

Power (Social sciences) - Israel

Social integration - Israel

Social planning - Israel

Electronic books.

Israel Economic conditions Case studies

Israel Ethnic relations Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

State Practices and Zionist Images; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction. An Ethnography of Macro-order Power Relations; Chapter 1. The Lay of the Land (I); Chapter 2. The Lay of the Land (II); Chapter 3. The Zipporit Industrial Area; Chapter 4. Land, Territory, and Jurisdiction; Chapter 5. The Image of Arab Traditionalism; Chapter 6. The Appropriation of Arab Development Needs and Potential; Chapter 7. Attempts to Break Through the Boundaries; Conclusion; Epilogue to the New Edition; Chronology of Events; Notes

GlossaryReferences; Legislation Cited; Subject Index; Selected Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and



the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between Arab local authorities, their Jewish neighbors, and the agencies of the national government in regard to developing local and regional industrial areas. The author avoids reduction to simple models of binary domination, revealing instead a complex, multi-dimensional field of relations and ever-