Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Ethnography of Macro-order Power Relations -- 1 The Lay of the Land (I): The Territorial Demon -- 2 The Lay of the Land (II): Urban Drive and the Arab Towns -- 3 The Zipporit Industrial Area -- 4 Land, Territory, and Jurisdiction: The Experience of Land Loss -- 5 The Image of Arab Traditionalism -- 6 The Appropriation of Arab Development Needs and Potential -- 7 Attempts to Break Through the Boundaries -- Conclusion -- Epilogue to the New Edition -- Chronology of Events -- Notes -- Glossary: Locality and Related Terms -- References -- Legislation Cited -- Subject Index -- Selected Author Index
Summary
Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between Arab local authorities, their Jewish neighbors, and the agencies of the national government in regard to developing local and regional industrial areas. The author avoids reduction to simple models of binary domination, revealing instead a complex, multi-dimensional field of relations and ever-sh
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and indexes
