Political Economy of Palestine

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 political¿a de-politicized economics¿is 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.

Explores the political economy of Palestine through critical, interdisciplinary, and decolonial perspectives

Chapter 1: Palestinian Political Economy: Enduring Struggle against Settler Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, and Neoliberalism.- Part I: Contextualizing Palestinian Political Economy.- Chapter 2: Dominate and Pacify: Contextualizing the Political Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 1967.- Chapter 3: The Political Economy of Dependency and Class Formation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 1967.- Chapter 4: Settler Colonialism and Land-Based Struggle in Palestine: Towards a Decolonial Political Economy.- Part II: Political Economy of Integration, Fragmentation, and Inequality.- Chapter 5: The West Bank-Israel Economic Integration: Palestinian Interaction with the Israeli Border and Permit Regimes.- Chapter 6: The Political Economy of the Gaza Strip under Hamas.- Chapter 7: Palestinians in Israel: Neoliberal Contestations and Class Formation.- Chapter 8: Towards a Political Economy of Apartheid and Inequality in Israel/Palestine.- Part III:Political Economy in the Absence of Sovereignty.- Chapter 9: Gaza, Palestine, and the Political Economies of Indigenous (Non)-Futures.- Chapter 10: Political Economy of Foreign Aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Conceptual Framing.- Chapter 11: The Palestinian Authority Political Economy: The Architecture of Fiscal Control.- Chapter 12: Political Economy of Intervention and Securitized Ordering in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.- Chapter 13: Off the Grid: Prepaid Power and the Political Economy of Waste in Palestine.- Chapter 14: To Unknow Palestine: A Conclusion.- Index.