The making of a void sovereignty: political implications of the military checkpoints in the West Bank

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    Abstract

    Research on the Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank has emphasized not only that these checkpoints have dire implications for the Palestinians living there, at the personal, familial, and communal levels, and devastating eff ects on the Palestinian economy, but also that they have far-reaching consequences for the ability of the Palestinians to establish an independent political entity. At the same time, analysis of the Israeli forms of domination over the Palestinians has also stressed the role of a Palestinian governing authority in sustaining the Israeli rule, since the former relieves the latter of its responsibility to care for the occupied Palestinian population. This paper aims to address this apparent contradiction claiming that a comprehensive analysis of Israeli forms of domination requires a spatial examination of the operation of sovereignty with an assessment of governmentalizing arrays. This combined analysis suggests that a Palestinian sovereignty, but one which is emptied of its actual ruling power, is construed at the checkpoints as an epiphenomenon of Israeli apparatuses of control.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)227-244
    Number of pages18
    JournalEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space
    Volume31
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

    Keywords

    • sovereignty
    • governmentality
    • borders
    • Israel
    • Palestine
    • checkpoints
    • West Bank

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