Journal Article

Towards ‘ethno-national peripheralisation’? Economic dependency amidst political resistance in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Shtern, Marik

2019

Overview

Recent studies discuss ‘peripheralisation’ as an uneven socio-spatial phenomenon driven by processes of economic centralisation and marginalisation (Kühn and Bernt, 2013) in capitalist (or capitalising) societies (Bernt and Colini, 2013). In this article, I utilise the concept of peripheralisation in the context of an ethno-national dispute in which spatial, economic and regional dynamics are largely determined by territorial policies of control and exclusion. I combine extant literature on the geopolitics and economy of Jerusalem with the Centre–Periphery framework in order to analyse the development and decline of East Jerusalem’s socio-economic status and political environment from 1967 to 2016. As I will show, since the beginning of the 1990s, Israeli national security policies have transformed East Jerusalem from a Palestinian metropolitan centre into a region on the socio-economic periphery of Israel. I term this particular type of marginalisation ‘ethnonational peripheralisation’, a process of socio-economic decline that is not a relational product of neoliberal centralisation, but an output of ethno-national policies of division and annexation. The radical shift in East Jerusalem’s regional socio-economic status, from a centre of one national realm to the periphery of another, transforms urban life and political spatial strategies in contemporary Jerusalem. The case of East Jerusalem’s peripheralisation demonstrates the ways in which ethno-national policies can create counter outcomes of ethno-national desegregation accelerated by physical entrapment, economic dependency and urban neoliberalism. 最近的研究将“边缘化”视为由资本主义（或资本化）社会（Bernt 和 Colini，2013）中的经济集中和边缘化进程（Kühn 和 Bernt，2013）驱动的不均衡社会空间现象。本文在民族争端的语境中运用边缘化概念，其中地域性的控制和排斥政策很大程度上决定了空间、经济和区域的活力。本文将关于耶路撒冷地缘政治和经济的现存文献与中心-边缘理论框架结合起来，分析 1967 至 2016 年东耶路撒冷社会经济地位和政治环境的发展和衰退。正如本文将表明的那样，自 1990 年代以来，以色列的国家安全政策已经将东耶路撒冷从巴勒斯坦的一个大都市中心转变为以色列的社会经济边缘地区。本文将这种特殊类型的边缘化称为“民族边缘化”，这是一种社会经济衰退过程，不是新自由主义集权的相关产物，而是民族分裂和兼并政策的产物。东耶路撒冷的区域社会经济地位从一个国家的中心向另一个国家边缘地区的根本性转变，改变了当代耶路撒冷的城市生活和政治空间战略。东耶路撒冷边缘化的情况表明，在实际沦陷、经济依赖和城市新自由主义的加速下，民族政策可以产生与民族融合相反的结果。

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Ltd,SAGE Publications,Sage Publications Ltd
• Subject: Annexation / Capitalism / Center and periphery / Centralization / Dependence / Desegregation / Economic analysis / Economic decline / Economic dependency / Economic development / Economics / Entrapment / Geopolitics / Marginality / National security / Neoliberalism / Policies / Political culture / Politics / Regional development / Resistance / Social exclusion / Socioeconomic factors / Socioeconomic status / Socioeconomics / Urban areas / Urbanism