Land struggle and Palestinian farmers’ livelihoods in the West Bank: between de-agrarianization and anti-colonial resistance

Fadia Panosetti and Laurence Roudart

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Abstract: This article explores the relationship between rural livelihood transformations and the land struggle in the West Bank between 1979 and the Oslo Accords. During this period, the Israeli adoption of the state land doctrine opened a new terrain of struggle, prompting specific responses among Palestinian rural communities. Bringing Agrarian Political Economy and Agrarian System Analysis in dialogue with Settler Colonial and Indigenous Studies, and relying on an extensive fieldwork, it analyses drivers and outcomes of de-agrarianization and semi-proletarianization in the villages of Al-Walaja and Wadi Fukin, showing how wage work in Israel contributed to uproot Palestinians from their land.

Keywords: De-agrarianization; Israel/Palestine; land dispossession; livelihoods; semi-proletarianization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11-10
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Published in: Journal of peasant studies (2023) v.51 n° 5,p.1079–1101

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