The city of Jersalem : the Israeli occupation and municipal subjugation of Palestinian Jerusalemites / Meir Margalit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margalit, Meʼir, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Arabs--Jerusalem--Social conditions--21st century.

Palestinian Arabs.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993-.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Jerusalem--History--21st century.

Jerusalem.

Jerusalem--Politics and government--21st century.

Jerusalem--Ethnic relations--History--21st century.

Middle East--Jerusalem.

Middle East.

Barkat, Nir, 1959-.

Barkat, Nir.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Place of Publication:

Brighton, England ; Chicago, Illinois ; Toronto, Canada : Sussex Academic Press, 2020.

Summary:

The author writes from the experience of thirty years working in the Jerusalem municipality, including 21 years as a public official and ten years as an elected councilor representing the left-wing Meretz party. This book is born from an urgent need to understand the mechanisms articulating the city in which I live, which I love and for which I suffer. I am from Jerusalem, I could not live in another city and the barbarities my government is perpetrating on the Palestinian parts of the city do not allow me to remain quiet. Through this book I engage with the prevailing model of power and repression and the neo-colonial system that expresses its perverse functioning. This book is centered on the political and economic mechanisms practiced by Israel in East Jerusalem over the last decade. These mechanisms reinforce the occupation and keep Jerusalems Palestinians subjugated through co-optation into the Israeli system. Analysis is centered on the changes wrought during the mayoralty of Nir Barkat (20082018), who came into politics from the business world and introduced management concepts to the workings of municipal government. While Barkat succeeded in creating the illusion of a new era in eastern Jerusalem, the result is heartbreaking displacement and vulnerability toward East Jerusalems residents, and the application of urban planning that impacts negatively on residents legal status. The City of Jerusalem: The Israeli Occupation and Municipal Subjugation of Palestinian Jerusalemites is a profound sociological and economic analysis of a city under a normalised occupation which has destroyed the very essence of what Jerusalem stands for: a reflection of diverse religious belief within a multicultural setting, where citizens rights are upheld and not discriminated against for political purpose.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

CHAPTER 1 Jerusalem as a Non-City

CHAPTER 2 Occupation as a Base Axiom

CHAPTER 3 The Apparatus that Sustains the Occupation

CHAPTER 4 The Barkat Administration and its Specific Way of Working

CHAPTER 5 The Identity Crisis of Jerusalem's Palestinians

CHAPTER 6 Silent Forced Migrations in Jerusalem

CHAPTER 7 Toponymy and Occupation in a Non-City

CHAPTER 8 Taking Control of Space

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-78284-685-9