Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism

This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism. Based on original empirical fieldwork, the contributors to this book adopt interdisciplinary and decolonial approaches in their examination of the intricate functions and structures of domination that permeate Palestinian life by illuminating the power dynamics at play and revealing the mechanisms that sustain the settler-colonial regime. This book identifies sites of colonial control and domination exerted on Palestine by Israel, and demonstrates how these sites of control are also sites of Palestinian resistance. The first section explores the political sites of control by focusing on governmentality, institutions, and technologies and mechanisms of control including how Israel manages access to health, life and death. The second section examines the economic mechanisms of exploitation, dispossession, and de-development including banking, taxation and the relationships between finance capital, aid and military occupation. The third section turns attention to environmental sites of control, focusing on land, indigeneity, space and racial capitalism. Finally, section four scrutinizes the intellectual sites of control, highlighting how norms, narratives, and knowledge production perpetuate domination. Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1: Resisting Domination in Palestine Part I: Political: Governmentality and Mechanisms of Control Chapter 2: Elimination by Other Means: Colonial Autonomy and Indirect Colonial Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Chapter 3: The Bureaucracy of Mortality: The Structural Violence of Medical Permits for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Chapter 4: Israeli Online Surveillance Regime: Digital Colonization in Practice Chapter 5: The Political Economy of Education and Technology: A Focus on the Lived Experiences of Palestinian Digital Freelancers Part II: Economic: Exploitation, Dispossession, and De-Development Chapter 6: Dislocating Development: Palestinians in Israeli International Aid Imaginaries in the 1950s and 1960s Chapter 7: Banking in/on the Occupation Chapter 8: The Palestinian Authority: The Fiscal Contract and Structural Constraints Part III: Environmental: Land, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism Chapter 9: Situating the Transnational in Agrarian Palestine Chapter 10: Settler Colonial Violence and Indigenous Struggle: Land, Resistance, and Refusal in Masafer Yatta Part IV: Epistemic: Local Knowledge and Global Norms Chapter 11: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Academic Censorship, and the Politics of Settler Colonial Erasure Chapter 12: Liberal Packaging and Colonial Approaches: Problematizing Western Intervention in Palestine Chapter 13: Palestinian Popular Education Post-Oslo Contributors Index