PREFACE; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BACKGROUND; 3. [Neo]RURALISATION & THE COMMUNITY SETTLEMENT; 4. GENTRIFICATION & THE SUBURBAN SETTLEMENT; 5. MASS-SUBURBANISATION & THE STARS SETTLEMENT; 6. FINANCIALISATION & HARISH CITY; 7. CONCLUSIONS.
Analyses settlements between Israel and the West-Bank, the Green-Line, exploring the influence of geopolitics and geoeconomics on the production of space.
Gabriel Schwake is an architect, urban designer and researcher. He is a Lecturer at the Sheffield School of Architecture, at the University of Sheffield, and co-director of Studio Sabra. Gabriel's work focuses on the issues of identities, conflicts, and neoliberalism, as well as the influences of nation-building and privatisation on the process of spatial production.
'Dwelling on the Green Line takes us for a gripping ride along the
Trans-Israel Highway running in parallel to the Green-Line and the
West-Bank Separation Wall. By connecting between the dots of the
Israeli settlements on both sides of these three lines – the
highway, the wall, and Israel's official border – Gabriel Schwake
reveals how the privatisation of housing development facilitates
Israel's ongoing colonial project.' Dr Irit Katz, University of
Cambridge
'Israeli social scientists grapple since the 1980s' with the
question of the relationship between its neo-colonial settlement
policies and neo-liberal economic policies. Schwake provides a
brilliant response: Israel's territorial politics works out through
its class politics. The book thus offers a most sophisticated
analysis of the convergence between national and social dynamics.'
Uri Ram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
'Offering a valuable critical perspective on the relationships
between privatisation processes and the production of
settler-colonial space in Israel, this book, which is based on a
rich and original empirical study, argues that privatisation of
settlement development, the production of the built environment and
the erection of infrastructure such as the Trans‐ Israel Highway
large projects goes beyond Israel's economic growth, rather is a
complementary tool of geopolitical expansion. Importantly, the book
focusses on an overlooked territorial unit, namely the frontier
with the occupied West‐Bank. This book is a must-read as in offers
a productive lens to understand the territorial reality, spatial
politics and social fragmentation of Israel while engaging with
critical theory.' Haim Yacobi, University College London
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