The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian

The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Editors: Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi

New York: Zone Books to be published in January 2009.

Executive Summary On the eve of its fifth decade, the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories can no longer be considered a temporary aberration. In the shadow of the Oslo process and the second Intifada, the occupation's hold over Palestinian life, society, space and land has been nothing but entrenched, while acquiring more sophisticated and long-lasting forms.

This collection of essays by leading Israeli and Palestinian scholars, The power of Inclusive Exclusion, accompanied by a comprehensive chronology, photographs and documents, is a groundbreaking attempt to analyze the Israeli occupation as a rationalized system of political rule. It features a comprehensive range of inquiries that address some of the fundamental dimensions of the occupation regime in its current phase – the unpredictable bureaucratic apparatus, the fragmentation of space and regulation of movement, the intricate tapestry of law and regulations, the discriminatory control over economic flows and the calculated use of military violence. Employing a variety of disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, the essays in the volume go beyond prevalent views of the occupation as either a skewed form of brutal colonization, a form of "Jewish Apartheid" or an inevitable piecemeal and improvised response to "terrorism". Pretending neither to blur Israel's responsibility for the Palestinian predicament nor to portray the occupation as a premeditated and coherent project, the essays uncover the structural logic that sustains and reproduces the occupation regime and thus delineate the stakes for an informed opposition to it.

The Power of Inclusive Exclusion offers an analytical outlook that is sensitive to the specific features of the Israeli occupation and yet strives to unravel the similarities that it shares with other contemporary forms of discriminatory rule. In a time when military occupations resurface, political disasters abound and protracted control over groups of non-citizens is enhanced and normalized, this meticulous study of the Israeli occupation develops an analytical model and a new set of categories that may be employed by students of emergency regimes elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni, Sari Hanafi, Introduction

Ariel Handel Chronology of the Occupation Regime, 1967-2007 18,000 words

Michal Givoni The Occupation's Paper Trail: Excerpts from an archive in the making

Orna Ben-Naftali, Aeyal M. Gross and Keren Michaeli The Illegality of the Occupation Regime: The Fabric of Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 28,000 words

Adi Ophir and Ariella Azoulay The Order of Violence 25,000 words

Photos dossier, Ariella Azoulay: Architecture of Destruction

Ariel Handel Where, Whereto and When in the Occupied Territories: Introduction to the Geography of Disaster 17,300 words

Photos dossier, Ariella Azoulay: Types of Blockage

Neve Gordon From Colonization to Separation: Exploring the Structure of Israel's Occupation 13,000 words

Hilla Dayan Principles of Old and New Regimes of Separation: Apartheid and Contemporary Israel/Palestine 16,400 words

Photos dossier, Ariella Azoulay: Architecture of Separation

Yehuda Shenhav and Yael Berda The Colonial Foundations of the Racialized Theological Bureaucracy: Juxtaposing the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories with Colonial History 15,300 words

Leila Farsakh Restructuring the Palestinian Economy: From Naksa to Oslo and Beyond 10,600 words

Caroline Abu-Sada Cultivating Dependence: Palestinian Agriculture under Israeli Occupation 7,600 words

Photos dossier, Ariella Azoulay: Architecture of Fear / The Language of Subjugation

Neve Gordon and Dani Filc The Destruction of Risk Society and the Ascendancy of Hamas 13,000 words

Sari Hanafi Palestinian Refugee Camps in the Palestinian Territory: Territory of Exception and Locus of Resistance 10,000 words

Gadi Algazi Matrix in Bil'in 5,300 words

Photos dossier, Ariella Azoulay: Textures of Destruction

Eyal Weizman Thanato-tactics 10,300

Ronen Shamir On the Impossibility of Borders or Occupation as Disorientation 3,800 words

Contributors

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Editors Adi Ophir teaches philosophy and political theory at The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. He is a fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Hartman Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies. His recent books include This Regime which is not one: Occupation and Democracy between the Sea and the River (in Hebrew, co-authored with Ariella Azoulay, Resling, 2008) and The Order of Evils (Zone Books, 2005). Adi Ophir was the founding editor of Theory & Criticism, an Israeli journal for critical thought. Michal Givoni completed her PhD studies at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Her work deals with transnational humanitarianism, contemporary practices of witnessing and testimony and governmentality in emergencies. She is a researcher at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and teaches political theory at Ben-Gurion University. Sari Hanafi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut and editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology. Hanafi is former Director of Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Centre (Shaml). He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on Palestinian refugees, economic sociology and sociology of migration. Among his recent books are: (with Linda Taber), The Emergence of A Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs (Muwatin and IPS, 2005, in English and Arabic); (With Eyal Benvenisti and Chaim Gans) (Eds.) Israel and the Palestinian Refugees (Springer and Max-Planck Institute, 2005); (with S. Ben néfissa, N. Abdel Fattah and C. Milani) (Eds.) NGOs and Governance in the Arab World. Issues, Problems and Case Studies (AUC Press, 2004); (with Sarah Bennéfissa) (Eds.) Pouvoir et associations dans le monde arabe, (CNRS, 2002).