Critical, Interdisciplinary and Decolonial Perspectives – Middle East Monitor
The decolonial approach in this collection of studies offers an important and at times over looked perspective of how Palestinians have become ensnared in a settler-colonial and neoliberal project. “Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary and Decolonial Perspectives” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) illustrates how Palestinians live between erasure and endurance in terms of Israel’s colonial expansion, while Palestine’s economy, dominated by Israel and external actors, contributes to the Palestinian people’s fragmentation.
In the introduction, the book’s editors state, “the roots of the ongoing fragmentation of Palestinian political economy lie in the historical settler colonial processes that began to take shape during the pre-Nakba decades.” Colonial violence has, in turn been interwoven in the Oslo Accords and the processes instigated for Palestine’s economy, which is dominated by Israel and reinforces dependency…
