State Practices and Zionist Images

Born in the United States, David A. Wesley came to Israel as a young adult and received his PhD in Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. For some years, he lived in a kibbutz before moving to a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood in Jaffa. He has been closely following events connected with Arab economic development in Israel since the beginning of the 1990s.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesForeword Emanuel MarxAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: An Ethnography of Macro-order Power RelationsChapter 1. The Lay of the Land (I): The Territorial DemonChapter 2. The Lay of the Land (II): Urban Drive and the Arab TownsChapter 3. The Zipporit Industrial AreaChapter 4. Land, Territory, and Jurisdiction: The Experience of Land LossChapter 5. The Image of Arab TraditionalismChapter 6. The Appropriation of Arab Development Needs and PotentialChapter 7. Attempts to Break Through the BoundariesConclusionEpilogue to the New EditionChronology of EventsNotesGlossary: Locality and Related TermsReferencesLegislation CitedSubject IndexSelected Author Index

“This is a book by an Israeli anthropologist of major importance. Wesley shows how these [settlement] policies were implemented in such a way that the Jewish population benefited and the Arabs did not.[The author], appalled by the systematic discriminatory results of state practices, takes a moral stand, but allows the reader to draw his own conclusions.” • Shofar“[An] outstanding study of the structures and processes of development planning in the Galilee region of Israel… There are various reasons why this is, by some way, the most important book to date from Israeli anthropology. An ethnographic case study is presented that gets to the heart of the state and its government. But it does so in a way that frames the account as process rather than closed structure. A final thought, therefore, is that Wesley has effectively invited Israeli anthropologists to join the new historians in taking part in a project that invites the state to provide the space and conditions for both Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to make a congenial home - as fellow and equal citizens.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “The book is an important contribution to current scholarship on the Arab economy inside Israel.” • Journal of Palestine Studies“Wesley offers a finely drawn, original, ethnographic-political study of the Israeli power system in practice. He shows how bureaucratic-administrative state forces constrain the participation of Arab villagers in the establishment of a municipal industrial park authority. The strength of the work is in Wesley's capacity to encapsulate, through case study, the ongoing situation of its Arab citizens facing state manipulations and rationalizations.” • Henry Rosenfeld, Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology, University of Haifa“The author explores the activism demonstrated by Arab society in Israel in its struggle for progress, development, and full equality. Taking note of the commitment of Arab policy activists to the eventual success of this struggle, he calls upon the Jews of Israel to abandon the practices of Separatism and exclusion and to adopt instead a model of cooperation and partnership.” • Hanna Swaid, Chairman of the Arab Centre for Alternative Planning, Eilaboun