Author ORCID Identifier
Emily McKee: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4873
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Nomadic Peoples
Abstract
This article examines how social preferences, in the form of cultural politics, become concretised in land laws. In Israel, Bedouin Arabs in unrecognised villages and Jewish farmers of individual farmsteads each faced governmental eviction orders and responded by seeking recognition of their land-use practices as legal. However, whereas Jewish farmers successfully mobilised place-based identities to gain legalisation, Bedouin Arabs' dwelling practices were not recognised as the legitimate basis for land claims, and their attempts to assert place-based identities have been denied. Instead, Bedouin Arabs faced pressures of 'de-cultural accommodation' and continued evictions. Ethnographic comparison of these two cases of 'illegal' settlement demonstrates how cultural identities - as former nomads or pioneer farmers - matter for land claims.
First Page
95
Last Page
119
DOI
10.3197/np.2015.190107
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Recommended Citation
McKee, Emily, "Demolitions and amendments: Coping with cultural recognition and its denial in Southern Israel" (2015). Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications. 1224.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allfaculty-peerpub/1224
Department
Department of Anthropology
ISSN
08227942
Comments
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced version of an article accepted 2015 following peer review for publication in Nomadic Peoples 19 (1): 95–119. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2015.190107.