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Introduction : Using the Settler City -- Immersive Invisibility and the Palestinian Struggle for Urban Access in Tel Aviv -- A Journey without Arrival? Palestinian Mobility into the Jewish City -- A Middle-Class Gateway to Tel Aviv : Palestinian Citizens at Israel's Liberal University -- Working in the City : Palestinian Middle-Class Citizens and Labor Commuters between Anonymity and Forced Invisibility -- Playing in Tel Aviv : Leisure and Fun in the Palestinian Underground -- A Cultural Exile : Palestinian Artists in Tel Aviv between Individual Liberation and Political Co-optation -- The Urban Politics of (In)visibility : Marginalized Activism and the Nonrecognition of Palestinian Tel Aviv -- When the Liberal Bubble Bursts : Violent Events and the Circular Temporality of Exclusion and Stigmatization Conclusion : A Settler-Colonial City for All Its Residents? Palestinian Tel Aviv and the Future of Liberal Urbanism in Israel/Palestine.

AbstractDominant majorities often use idealized categories to validate the 'goodness' and deservingness of minority citizens. For Palestinian citizens of Israel, this category is the 'good Arab'. Since its origins in early Jewish settlement of Palestine, it has become a powerful and controversial metaphor in Israeli public discourse. As an experienced condition of limited inclusion, the 'good Arab' exemplifies the Palestinian dilemma of accessing socioeconomic opportunities in Jewish Israeli spaces that stigmatize and fend off their ethnonational identity. Combining a historical genealogy of the 'good Arab' with ethnographic research among Palestinians in Tel Aviv, this article shows how a historically evolved logic of settler colonial control and indigenous erasure continues to define liberal frameworks of conditional citizenship and inclusion. Theorized through the emerging concept of conditional inclusion, these insights open up new avenues for analysis and comparison in anthropological debates surrounding indigenous struggles, settler colonialism, urban inclusion, and citizenship.

Fluctuating forms of diversity have evolved as a result of cross‐border interventions by civil resistance activists. Such diversity is nurtured by the inflows and outflows of individuals form very different backgrounds on a local stage of action. Discussing civil resistance as an arena in which such fluctuating diversity produces multilayered patterns of identification, this paper looks at Israeli and international activists who interject themselves temporarily into the local sphere of civil resistance in a Palestinian village. Here, solidarity activists form a highly diverse and shifting assemblage of actors who divide among themselves according to power‐related ascriptions and privileges. As in a musical orchestra, individual activists and groups of activists each follow their own "score," but align their distinct functions with one another to wage a struggle collectively. Within this orchestra of civil resistance, diversity is not the obstacle to collective action but its very basis.

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, particularly in times of hypermobility. Evidently, mobility is closely tied to immobility.This volume features ethnographic research that challenges the concept of mobility with regard to social inequalities and global hierarchies.

Cover Bounded Mobilities -- Contents -- Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project -- Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems -- I. Introduction -- Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction -- Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle-Ground? -- II. Identities and Boundaries -- "So, now I am Eritrean": Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility

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