Governance in Ethnically Mixed Cities by Sherrill Stroschein

Author:Sherrill Stroschein [Stroschein, Sherrill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General, Social Science
ISBN: 9780415451260
Google: IENlNAAACAAJ
Goodreads: 13710401
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-01-15T09:41:38+00:00

Housing: conditions, affordability, infrastructure

Housing: conditions, affordability, renewal, construction of new neighbourhoods

Community survival; resisting gentrification

Education: reform and improvement

Education: reform and improvement

Fighting crime, contentious policing issues, public safety

Public safety

Urban separatism: safeguarding Jaffa’s

Urban separatism: safeguarding Haifa’s

Palestinian past

Palestinian past

claims by civic leadership to produce and represent the city’s “distinctiveness” are example of the political construction of difference locally. In Jaffa, patterns of conflict and social exclusion seem to re-produce and enhance the subordination of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, which has become an important feature of the country’s form of ethnonational politics, producing what Yiftachel (2001) has coined an “ethnocracy”. While activists in Haifa could draw on both the city’s symbolic gestures and the relative strength of party and non-governmental organizations as important resources for action,

Table 3. The political terrain of minority politics in Haifa and Jaffa, within the context of ethno-politics in Israel Israel

Haifa

Tel Aviv-Jaffa

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