Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy: De-development and Beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction: Decolonizing the Study of the Political Economy of the Palestinian People....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Economic Strategies of Occupation: Confining Development and Buying-off Peace....Pages 13-31
The Political Economy of Western Aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Since 1993....Pages 32-52
Hydro-Apartheid and Water Access in Israel-Palestine: Challenging the Myths of Cooperation and Scarcity....Pages 53-76
(En)gendering De-development in East Jerusalem: Thinking Through the ‘Everyday’....Pages 77-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Palestinian Refugees: From ‘Spoilers’ to Agents of Development....Pages 97-114
Impeded Development: The Political Economy of the Palestinian Arabs inside Israel....Pages 115-137
State-Directed ‘Development’ as a Tool for Dispossessing the Indigenous Palestinian Bedouin-Arabs in the Naqab....Pages 138-157
Planning the Divide: Israel’s 2020 Master Plan and its impact on East Jerusalem....Pages 158-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Neoliberalism and the Contradictions of the Palestinian Authority’s State-building Programme....Pages 179-199
The Role of the Tunnel Economy in Redeveloping Gaza....Pages 200-219
Before and Beyond Neoliberalism: The Political Economy of National Liberation, the PLO and ‘amal ijtima’i....Pages 220-237
Learning the Lessons of Oslo: State-building and Freedoms in Palestine....Pages 238-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-262