ABSTRACT

This paper examines the repurposing of Palestinian rural lands for real estate investment. Focusing on Rawabi, the celebrated first Palestinian planned city, this study unsettles the city’s narrative of triumphant urban development within an empty rural landscape by centering the experiences of the three villages on whose land this real estate scheme was built. Arguing that this project constitutes a neoliberal mode of capitalist accumulation that is based on seizing the assets of marginalized communities and classes, the paper analyzes how these processes are exposing communities to further precarity. Examining the land grab upon which this city is based, we detail the repercussions of the asset stripping for the peasant communities in question and shed new light on how predatory accumulation is transforming rural spaces, life and class relations in Palestine. In doing so, this paper situates global capitalist dynamics within the settler colonial realities in Palestine and begins to examine their implications for Palestinians struggling to remain on their land.

摘要

本文考察了重新利用巴勒斯坦农村土地进行房地产投资的情况。本研究以著名的第一个巴勒斯坦规划城市拉瓦比为重点，通过以三个村庄的经验为中心，在其土地上建立了这个房地产计划，从而扰乱了城市在空旷的乡村景观中取得胜利的城市发展的叙述。认为该项目构成了一种基于夺取边缘化社区和阶级资产的新自由主义资本主义积累模式，本文分析了这些过程如何使社区面临进一步的不稳定。审视这座城市所基于的土地掠夺，我们详细介绍了资产剥离对相关农民社区的影响，并揭示了掠夺性积累如何改变农村空间，巴勒斯坦的生活和阶级关系。为此，本文将全球资本主义动态置于巴勒斯坦定居者的殖民现实中，并开始研究它们对努力留在自己土地上的巴勒斯坦人的影响。