Gated/gating community: the settlement complex in the West Bank

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers - Tập 39 Số 4 - Trang 504-517 - 2014
Ariel Handel1,2
1Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace The Hebrew University Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 Israel
2Minerva Humanities Center Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978 Israel

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The claim that the settlements in the West Bank are gated communities might seem trivial. Those settlements are an explicit example of a community featuring, on the one hand, social cohesion based on shared values, while, on the other hand, self‐isolation with the help of fences and a stress on the ‘security of the community’. The argument of this paper, however, is different. The paper suggests that the settlement layout in the West Bank is not just an aggregate of 124 ‘legal’ gated communities and a similar number of ‘illegal outposts’, but rather a single, contiguous gated community gating, in turn, Palestinian ‘islands’ within it. The reading I will offer seeks to look at the space in question through a careful reading of its use values. The emphasis is put on the question of mobilities in order to show how the fortressed points turn into an exclusionary web by means of separated roads and movement restrictions. By analysing the combined system of settlements, roads, military legislation, spatial design and applied violence, the paper shows how the few hundred points consolidate into one coherent spatial system. The paper wishes to contribute to the spatial analysis of the now 45‐year‐old Israeli occupation of the West Bank, to the growing study of politics of mobility and to the discourse of gated communities by adding colonialism and violence to the mostly neoliberal explanations of the phenomenon.

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Tập 39 Số 4

504-517

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