Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy, 2014
De-development and Beyond
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Series

The volume brings together cutting-edge political economy analyses of the Palestinian people: those living in the occupied territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those living within Israel, and refugees in Arab states. It is a must-read for those who wish to understand the historical origins and contemporary realities that face Palestinians.

Foreword; Sara Roy Introduction: Decolonising the Study of the Political Economy of the Palestinian People; Mandy Turner and Omar Shweiki PART I: DE-DEVELOPMENT EXPLORED 1. The Economic Strategies of Occupation: Confining Development and Buying-off Peace; Sahar Taghdisi-Rad 2. The Political Economy of Western Aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Since 1993; Mandy Turner 3. Hydro-apartheid and Water Access in Israel-Palestine: Challenging the Myths of Cooperation and Scarcity; Clemens Messerschmid 4. (En)gendering De-development in East Jerusalem: Thinking Through the 'Everyday'; Nadera Shalhoub-Kerkovian and Rachel Busbridge PART II: DE-DEVELOPMENT APPLIED 5. Palestinian Refugees: from 'Spoilers' to Agents of Development; Ingrid Jaradat Gassner 6. Impeded Development: the Political Economy of the Palestinian Arabs Inside Israel; Mtanes Shehadeh and Raja Khalidi 7. State-directed 'Development' as a Tool for Dispossessing the Indigenous Palestinian Bedouin-Arabs in the Naqab; IsmaelAbu-Saad 8. Planning the Divide: Israel's 2020 Master Plan and its Impact on East Jerusalem; Rami Nasrallah PART III: DE-DEVELOPMENT RESISTED 9. Neoliberalism and the Contradictions of the Palestinian Authority's State-building Programme; Raja Khalidi and Sobhi Samour 10. The Role of the Tunnel Economy in Redeveloping Gaza; Nicolas Pelham 11. Before and Beyond Neoliberalism: the Political Economy of National Liberation, the PLO and 'amal ijtima'i; Omar Shweiki 12. Learning the Lessons of Oslo: Statebuilding and Freedoms in Palestine; Mushtaq H. Khan

Ismael Abu-Saad, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Rachel Busbridge, Freie Universität, Germany Mushtaq H. Khan, University of London, UK Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS Campaign) Raja Khalidi, Bir Zeit University, Palestine Clemens Messerschmid, independent researcher Rami Nasrallah, International Peace and Cooperation Center (IPCC), Israel Nicolas Pelham, The Economist Sara Roy, Harvard University, USA Sobhi Samour, University of London, UK Mtanes Shihadeh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Sahar Taghdisi-Rad, North Africa department of the African Development Bank, Tunisia