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The political and economic geography of occupied Palestinian territory presents significant constraints to the livelihoods of Palestinian families. And yet the story of many Palestinian families is one not of resignation but of steadfastness and resistance. This article explores this as an important example of civil resistance. It begins by building a theoretical case for giving greater attention to the constitutive role of marginalised people in the production of concepts and practices of civil resistance claiming that this helps us identify overlooked and seemingly everyday practices of colonised groups. Next it explores the case of one Palestinian family farm in the west Bethlehem village of Nahhalin as an example of alternative imagined geographies and communities that present a refusal to Israeli colonial occupation. It argues that this refusal is an expression of civil resistance that constitutes a counter-map that rejects Israel's settler-colonial map of their farmland by refusing to leave, and that rejects the violence of the state and its claims to sovereignty by 'refusing to be enemies'.

In this collection of essays, uthors from a variety of disciplines critically examine the peacebuilding implications and societal impact of the Hizmet Movement. Increased scholarly attention is being paid to the role of religion in peacebuilding theory and practice, and in particular how that is expressed in Islam and Islamic contexts.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Political Economy of Palestine -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Palestinian Political Economy: Enduring Struggle Against Settler Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, and Neoliberalism -- Introduction -- Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial -- Palestine and Palestinian Political Economy -- Book Overview -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Contextualizing Palestinian Political Economy -- 2 Dominate and Pacify: Contextualizing the Political Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territories Since 1967 -- Introduction -- The Dual Principles of Domination and Pacification -- The Early Years (1967-1979) -- The Relapse of Israeli Strategies in the 1980s -- Political Economy Factors Behind the Oslo Process (1990-1993) -- Oslo's "Legalization" of Economic Domination -- Oslo's "Institutionalization" of Economic Pacification -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Political Economy of Dependency and Class Formation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Since 1967 -- Introduction -- Israeli Occupation and Palestinian Dependency 1967-1993 -- Part One: Dependency -- Palestinian Labor in Israel -- Movement of Goods: The Flip Side of Work in Israel -- Part Two: Class Formation -- The Demise of the Petty Bourgeoisie -- The "Capitalist" Bourgeoisie Class -- Working Class "Identification" -- The "Peace" Process and Neoliberalism (1994-Present) -- Part One: Dependency -- Formalizing Dependencies -- Palestinian Labor and the Role of Agriculture -- Production and Trade -- New Dependencies -- Part Two: Class Formation -- The Emergence of the "New Middle Class" -- The Capitalist Bourgeoisie Class -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Settler Colonialism and Land-Based Struggle in Palestine: Toward a Decolonial Political Economy -- Introduction.

This book explores the political economy of Palestine through critical, interdisciplinary, and decolonial perspectives, underscoring that an approach to economics that does not consider the politicala de-politicized economicsis inadequate to understanding the situation in occupied Palestine. A critical interdisciplinary approach to political economy challenges prevailing neoliberal logics and structures that reproduce racial capitalism, and explores how the political economy of occupied Palestine is shaped by processes of accumulation by exploitation and dispossession from both Israel and global business, as well as from Palestinian elites. A decolonial approach to Palestinian political economy foregrounds struggles against neoliberal and settler colonial policies and institutions, and aids in the de-fragmentation of Palestinian life, land, and political economy that the Oslo Accords perpetuated, but whose histories of de-development over all of Palestine can be traced back for over a century. The chapters in this book offer an in-depth contextualization of the Palestinian political economy, analyze the political economy of integration, fragmentation, and inequality, and explore and problematize multiple sectors and themes of political economy in the absence of sovereignty. Alaa Tartir is Researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland, Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, and Policy and Program Adviser to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. Tariq Dana is Assistant Professor at the Conflict and Humanitarian Studies program at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, Qatar, and Policy Adviser at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. Timothy Seidel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, USA.