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Jamil Hilal's Recently Published "Rethinking Palestine: Settler-colonialism, Neo-liberalism and Individualism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip"

2/28/2016

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Check out Political Economy Project member Jamil Hilal's recently published article entitled "Rethinking Palestine: settler-colonialism, neo-liberalism and individualism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip" in the journal Contemporary Arab Affairs ​(June, 2015).

Abstract:

"The 1967 occupied Palestinian territories have undergone three major types of development since the Oslo agreement between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Israel was signed in 1993 and the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994. These developments have brought far-reaching structural changes in Palestinian politics and society. They have rendered Palestinian communities – inside historic Palestine and outside - very vulnerable, and made collective action against collective colonial repression (including a third intifada) more difficult. The three developments are identified as: the emergence of a political discourse that evicts Palestinians from history and geography and denies them a national identity; the escalation of collective repression, and settler-colonization; and the localization of Palestinian politics and the atomization of Palestinian society (in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and probably elsewhere) under the impact of settler-colonialism and neo-liberalism.
Keywords: apartheid; colonialism; Israel; intifada; military occupation; neoliberalism; Palestinian Authority"

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Jamil Hilal's Recently Published "A Reading on the Socio Urban Changes in Ramalah and Kufur Aqab"

2/20/2016

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Check out Political Economy Project member Jamil Hilal's recently published study entitled "A Reading on the Socio Urban Changes in Ramalah and Kufur Aqab." The research for this preliminary study was carried out by Jamil Hilal and Abaher El-Sakka through the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University. Read the study below:
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"Class disparity and consumerism together with service economy expanded in detriment of other economic sectors. This statement summarizes the prevailing political economy in the past two decades in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, virtually in cities and rural areas.

Any observer of the urban alterations with gigantesque buildings and increased small, medium and large sized service establishments, not to mention the change in the landscape of cities and its expansion into the country side, can apprehend part of the “new” Palestinian life narrative. It is set up with neoliberal acts that range between legally framed official policies and large private sector companies to market margins and the new patterns imposed by these alterations. There is intense distortion of productive and empowering sectors, or in other terms the sectors that could enhance the steadfastness and resilience of ordinary people. Needless to say that this is conceptualized at both physical and moral levels while Palestine still lives in a colonial context. Any observer interested in the mechanisms of political economy will realize that such changes cannot constitute an alternative to the economies and hegemony of the colonization and consequently cannot oppose or resist its domination.

Ramallah is in the front of this new landscape as it hosts amid its neighborhoods the camps of Alamaari, Qalandia and Qadoura not to mention the nearby Jalazoun Camp. These camps with still living memory of the Nakba (1948 occupation) continue to suffer daily. Between Ramallah and Qalandia Camp lies Kufur Aqab, a flagrant example of restricting populated and urbanized space to features that contradict with its rural specificity. All such acts take place under a structural system imposed by the colonization on the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The occupation procedures force them to change their residential area to allow family reunification to take place or to preserve the Jerusalem ID. There in Kufur Aqab, thousands of Palestinians share an urban chaos that lack minimum legal, engineering or even decent environmental and humanitarian standards. Amid this chaos, we cannot ignore the byproducts of the daily colonial occupation practices on the streets of our cities and villages, cold-blood executions of our young me and women, the isolation and closure imposed upon humans and their space. It is a different scene from the reality on the ground and the misleading urban landscape.

The main purpose behind these two studies is to produce a visual and methodological documentation to understand the social partition and fragmentation that is taking place in urban centers and examine their expansion to understand their patterns and see who wins and who loses in the Palestinian economic political perspective of Ramallah and Kufur Aqab." -Ayman AbulMajeed, Center for Development Studies
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What is Political Economy?: The Inaugural Political Economy Project Workshop from Status/الوضع Panels

2/18/2016

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Listen to Political Economy Project members discuss the meaning of political economy in a collection of panels entitled "What is Political Economy?" on Status/الوضع:
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Held in April 2015 at George Mason University, this inaugural workshop of the Political Economy Project (PEP) features presentations from numerous researchers and scholars of political economy from the Middle East and beyond. PEP is an evolving focus of the Arab Studies Institute, with research, pedagogic, and advocacy objectives.

Participants were asked to address any aspect(s) of the following questions. However, they were encouraged to improvise and/or share their own work/research agenda as well.

1. What is your conception of 'political economy' and how do you incorporate political economy into your own research agenda? 2. What do you consider good political economy texts and why? 3. What are some of the pressing questions/concerns you would like to see (or avoid) in some or any agenda in political economy? (This may address the region, or not.) 4. What types of academic initiatives do you think could help in supporting and strengthening your work in PE, and help to push the field forward productively?

Day two of the workshop is made up of twelve presentations, which you can click on separately in the player below. (Day one's presentations can be accessed here). Please find full speaker bios of workshop participants at Status/الوضع and click here for the full Political Economy Project network page.

Participants: 
  • Mandy Turner - Kenyon Institute
  • ZIad Abu-Rish - Ohio University
  • Toby Jones - Rutgers University
  • Max Ajl - Cornell University
  • Laleh Khalili - SOAS, University of London
  • Wael Gamal - Al Shurouq 
  • Ahmad Shokr - New York University 
  • Aaron Jakes - George Washington University 
  • John Warner - New York University 
  • Shana Marshall - George Washington University 
  • Adam Hanieh - SOAS, University of London 
  • Bassam Haddad - George Mason University 

Political Economy Project - Workshop 1
25 April 2015
Fairfax, VA - George Mason University
What is Political Economy?: The Inaugural Political Economy Project Workshop (Part 1) - from Status/الوضع Panels
What is Political Economy?: The Inaugural Political Economy Project Workshop (Part 2) - from Status/الوضع Panels
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Wael Gamal's Recently Published "Why Does the Neoliberal Project Persist in the Arab Region?" 

2/18/2016

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Check out Political Economy Project member Wael Gamal's recently published article "Why Does the Neoliberal Project Persist in the Arab Region?" on Khoyout. Gamal's article is one section of a larger work entitled Social Justice in the Arab Countries: Between Popular Mobilization and Political Tracks. Click here to visit the site and read the article!
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Submit to the 2016 Political Economy Book Prize Competition! (Deadline: 26 February 2016)

2/16/2016

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Read the following reminder about the Political Economy Project's 2016 Political Economy Book Prize Competition and enter your work into the competition before it is too late:

The Political Economy Project (PEP) is pleased to invite nominations for our 2016 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. PEP aims to recognize and disseminate exceptional critical work on the political economy of the Middle East. While the book must have a political economy theme, we welcome nominations from across academic disciplines. Submissions will be read and judged by a committee drawn from PEP’s membership. Eligible texts must have been published in 2013, 2014 or 2015 and can be either Arabic or English language. The book must make an original contribution to critical political economy research. The author(s) of the winning book will receive a prize of US$1000 and will be invited to give a talk at a PEP affiliated University. The author(s) will also be interviewed by PEP’s affiliate Audio Journal, Status/الوضع.

Deadline for submission is Friday 26 February 2016. If you intend to participate, please email us at: bookprize@politicaleconomyproject.org and send three copies of the text should be sent to the following address:

Arab Studies Institute
4087 University Drive
Commerce Building, 3rd Floor, Suite 3200
Fairfax VA 22030
USA 

Two copies will be returned once the committee has reached a decision. If mailing three texts presents a financial hardship to the author s/he should send a request for financial assistance to:
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bookprize@politicaleconomyproject.org 

Click here to read the above announcement on Jadaliyya.

Official Announcement Letter:

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