Food Sovereignty and Alternative Development in Palestine
Volume XXXIV • Issue 1 • 2018
Said Zawahari , 74. Palestinian Shepherd outside his home and small farm, overshadowed by the vast Jewish settlement of Har Homa, in the Palestinian West Bank.“12 years ago the hill in front of us was a forest. Seeing the huge Jewish settlement the

After more than 20 years of the Oslo process and its dominant development model, the multiple crises in Palestine lend urgency to the exploration of alternatives to the status quo. This special issue contributes to current debates on alternative development and ‘resistance economy’ by discussing the significance agricultural cooperatives have in the occupied Palestinian territories and linking their experiences to the food sovereignty approach.
What kind of alternative development is envisaged by agricultural cooperatives in Palestine in response to neoliberal development models of economic growth and the Israeli occupation? How can community-based agricultural cooperatives initiate processes of alternative development in Palestine?
The authors of this issue contribute to a better understanding of the multiple (development) crises in Palestine and analyse cooperatives’ experiences and strategies from academic as well as activist perspectives.

 

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Krieger, Helmut

Nurturing Alternative Development: Agricultural Cooperatives in Palestine

Sprache: ENGLISCHSeiten: 4-13https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-34-1-4
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Introduction

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Salzmann, Philipp

A Food Regime’s Perspective on Palestine: Neoliberalism and the Question of Land and Food Sovereignty within the Context of Occupation

Sprache: ENGLISCHSeiten: 14-34https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-34-1-14
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The question of land and its strategic, socio-political and agricultural relevance within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be understood against the background of the dominant position of Israel as occupational power, heavily affecting the access to, and the control over natural resources. The subjects discussed within this article are intrinsically linked via the usage of the food regime approach as analytical tool, and the article’s specific focus on land. An attempt is made to grasp the neoliberal restructuring of Palestine and its developments in the agricultural sector, paying particular attention to land grabbing. Neoliberalism aided the institutionalising and normalising of accumulation by dispossession in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), these being identified as a key feature of the corporate food regime, and leading to the marginalisation of rural communities and to depeasantisation. The crises of the food regime spurred food sovereignty movements all around the globe. While analysing the political demands and approaches of the concept of food sovereignty centered around natural resources, this article also explores why the concept offers various ideas for an alternative development in Palestine. This paper tries to show how specific dynamics observed by the food regime analytics can be helpful in contextualising developments within the oPt – ranging from neoliberal restructuring to the emergence of food sovereignty.

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food sovereignty, Palestine, food regime, land grabbing, neoliberalism, alternative development

AbdulMajeed, Ayman

Conceptual and Methodological Approaches to Reading the Realm of Cooperatives in Occupied Palestine

Sprache: ENGLISCHSeiten: 35-61https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-34-1-35
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In his book Victims of Development, Jeremy Seabrook analyses and criticises the impact of development on local populations, which brought to mind the Palestinian development conditions and prompted this important contextual and methodical study of Palestinian cooperatives as alternative methods of development that arose within the context of living under global colonial conditions. Several controversial questions came out of this study of cooperatives. The most crucial issues in the debate are whether to surrender to that reality and de facto context, or attempt to change it; to become captive to consumerism or redeem production that is based on experience and expertise, and whether to give in to individualism that undermines self-reliance or revert to productive collective action. The study also raises the critical question of whether to accept the loss of local experiences and valuable initiatives instead of moving into the path of empowerment and change. These are the actualities and alternatives for change revealed through the methodological conceptual approach of this study within a critical reading of the experience of cooperatives in a colonial context.

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agricultural cooperatives, roots of change, alternative methods of development, colonialism, culture of change

Kuttab, Eileen

Alternative Development: A Response to Neo-Liberal De-Development from a Gender Perspective

Sprache: ENGLISCHSeiten: 62-90https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-34-1-62
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This article is a critical reflection on, and contextualisation of, the Palestinian ‘de-development’ process over the last 50 years of Israeli settler-colonial occupation. It also highlights the Palestinian Authority’s neo-liberal economic practice of structural adjustment post Oslo, that resulted in weakening the resistance economy and community development initiatives, while blocking any opportunity for steadfastness and self-reliance. It presents local community responses in a historical and gender perspective. Kuttab re-examines and re-visits ‘alternative development’ as a concept and paradigm through a case study of the women's cooperative ‘Our Production is Our Pride’, which endorsed principles of resistance, steadfastness, independence and liberation.

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settler colonialism, resistance economy, empowerment, alternative development, cooperatives, self-reliance

Arafeh, Nur

‘Resistance Economy’: A New Buzzword? (Essay)

Sprache: ENGLISCHSeiten: 91-102https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-34-1-91
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Essay

Al-Jibeihi, Hiba

‘Protecting our lands and supporting our farmers’ (Interview with Philipp Salzmann)

Sprache: ENGLISCHSeiten: 103-111https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-34-1-103
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Interview

Krieger, Helmut (2014): Umkämpfte Staatlichkeit. Palästina zwischen Besatzung, Entwicklung und politischen Islam. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Interview

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