Towards 'ethno-national peripheralisation'? Economic dependency amidst political resistance in Palestinian East Jerusalem

《Towards 'ethno-national peripheralisation'? Economic dependency amidst political resistance in Palestinian East Jerusalem》

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来源: URBAN STUDIES,Vol.56,Issue6,P.1129-1147

语言: 英文

关键字: Centre-Periphery; divided cities; Israel; Palestine; Jerusalem; neoliberalism; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; PERIPHERY; SHRINKAGE; CONFLICT; URBANISM; ISRAEL; POLICY; RISE

作者单位: [Shtern, Marik] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Polit & Govt, POB 653, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel. Shtern, M (reprint author), Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Polit & Govt, POB 653, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel. E-Mail: mariks@post.bgu.ac.il

摘要: Recent studies discuss 'peripheralisation' as an uneven socio-spatial phenomenon driven by processes of economic centralisation and marginalisation (Kuhn and Bernt, 2013) in capitalist (or capitalising) societies (Bernt and Colini, 2013). In this article, I utilise the concept of peripheralisation in the context of an ethno-national dispute in which spatial, economic and regional dynamics are largely determined by territorial policies of control and exclusion. I combine extant literature on the geopolitics and economy of Jerusalem with the Centre-Periphery framework in order to analyse the development and decline of East Jerusalem's socio-economic status and political environment from 1967 to 2016. As I will show, since the beginning of the 1990s, Israeli national security policies have transformed East Jerusalem from a Palestinian metropolitan centre into a region on the socio-economic periphery of Israel. I term this particular type of marginalisation 'ethno-national peripheralisation', a process of socio-economic decline that is not a relational product of neoliberal centralisation, but an output of ethno-national policies of division and annexation. The radical shift in East Jerusalem's regional socio-economic status, from a centre of one national realm to the periphery of another, transforms urban life and political spatial strategies in contemporary Jerusalem. The case of East Jerusalem's peripheralisation demonstrates the ways in which ethno-national policies can create counter outcomes of ethno-national desegregation accelerated by physical entrapment, economic dependency and urban neoliberalism.