The empire's new walls: Sovereignty, neo-liberalism, and the production of space in post-apartheid South Africa and post-Oslo Palestine/Israel.
dc.contributor.author | Clarno, Andrew James | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Steinmetz, George P. | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Gocek, Fatma Muge | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-30T16:25:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-30T16:25:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3354129 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/127105 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the relationship between neo-liberal restructuring, political transition, and the reorganization of urban space in Palestine/Israel and South Africa over the last 20 years. My research combines comparative historical, ethnographic, and visual methodologies, and is located at the intersection of three sociological literatures: neo-liberalism and empire; sovereignty and state formation; and the spatial turn in the social sciences. I begin by demonstrating that neither the Oslo peace process nor the transition from apartheid to democracy can be understood apart from the neo-liberalization of the South African and Israeli economies. The two states have followed similar paths from racial Fordism to neo-liberalism, but the South African state was democratized while Israel simply restructured its occupation. I then examine the impact of these large-scale processes on the spatial restructuring of Johannesburg and Jerusalem. Analyzing the interplay between state formation, capital accumulation, social movements, and everyday life practices, I argue that the construction of walled enclosures in both cities is a response to the inequality and insecurity caused by neo-liberal restructuring. But these enclosures have taken different forms---privatized in Johannesburg and state-centered in Jerusalem---due to the divergent trajectories of political restructuring in the two states. Throughout the dissertation, I argue that urban restructuring in Johannesburg and Jerusalem as well as the broader political and economic transitions in South Africa and Palestine/Israel helped produce a fundamental shift in global power relations. This imperial transition constitutes an important shift in world-historical time and helps explain important differences between the Bantustan strategy in apartheid-era South Africa and the enclosure strategy in contemporary Palestine/Israel. I end with an analysis of the ongoing crises of regulation that have generated insecurity for everyone in South Africa, Palestine/Israel, and throughout the empire. Racialized discourses of crime and terrorism magnify the perception of threat, obscure the causes of insecurity, and provide a mechanism for policing the crisis. | |
dc.format.extent | 369 p. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.subject | Apartheid | |
dc.subject | Empire | |
dc.subject | Israel | |
dc.subject | Liberalism | |
dc.subject | Neo | |
dc.subject | Neoliberalism | |
dc.subject | New | |
dc.subject | Oslo | |
dc.subject | Palestine | |
dc.subject | Post | |
dc.subject | Production | |
dc.subject | South Africa | |
dc.subject | Sovereignty | |
dc.subject | Space | |
dc.subject | State | |
dc.subject | Urban | |
dc.subject | Walls | |
dc.title | The empire's new walls: Sovereignty, neo-liberalism, and the production of space in post-apartheid South Africa and post-Oslo Palestine/Israel. | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Middle Eastern studies | |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Social structure | |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | South African studies | |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/127105/2/3354129.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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