Decolonisation, gentrification, and the settler-colonial city: Reappropriation and new forms of urban exclusion in Israel

IF 2.4 2区 社会学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Gabriel Schwake, Haim Yacobi
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Focusing on the immigration of upper-middle-class Palestinian families to the Israeli town of Upper-Nazareth, originally built by the state to enhance Jewish presence in the area, this paper frames the concept of decolonising gentrification. Accordingly, it studies a unique inconsistency between economic class and ethnonational hegemony, which enables upwardly Arab minority families to overcome ethnic barriers and to exercise social and spatial mobility. Therefore, this paper explains how these socio-political dynamics challenge the local settler-colonial aspects of urban development and enable the reappropriation of colonised urban space. Focusing on the case of Upper-Nazareth and its former ‘Officers’ Neighbourhood’, we examine a distinctive contradiction between political power and economic abilities that triggers a unique case of gentrification, where the colonised minority gentrifies the colonising hegemony. At the same time, this decolonising gentrification, as we argue, takes place in restricted urban enclaves, and relies on an ethno-class price gap as it is only the minority upper-class who is willing to pay the increasing prices, due to their limited options. Therefore, as this paper shows, decolonising gentrification simultaneously challenges and recreates urban settler-colonialism, enabling limited market-oriented reappropriation while triggering ethnic-based accumulation and new forms of neoliberal exclusion.
非殖民化、中产阶级化和定居者-殖民城市:以色列的重新占有和新形式的城市排斥
关注巴勒斯坦中上层家庭移民到以色列小镇上拿撒勒(Upper-Nazareth)的情况,该城镇最初是由以色列政府为加强犹太人在该地区的存在而建立的,本文构建了非殖民化的中产阶级化概念。因此,它研究了经济阶层与民族霸权之间独特的不一致,这种不一致使向上的阿拉伯少数民族家庭能够克服种族障碍,并行使社会和空间流动性。因此,本文解释了这些社会政治动态如何挑战城市发展的当地定居者-殖民地方面,并使殖民地城市空间的重新占用成为可能。以上拿撒勒及其前“军官社区”为例,我们研究了政治权力和经济能力之间的独特矛盾,这种矛盾引发了一个独特的士绅化案例,在这个案例中,被殖民的少数民族使殖民霸权士绅化。与此同时,正如我们所说,这种非殖民化的士绅化发生在受限制的城市飞地,并依赖于种族阶级之间的价格差距,因为只有少数上层阶级愿意支付不断上涨的价格,因为他们的选择有限。因此,正如本文所示,非殖民化的士绅化同时挑战并重建了城市定居者殖民主义,使有限的市场导向的重新占有成为可能,同时引发了基于种族的积累和新自由主义排斥的新形式。
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