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Neoliberal Apartheid Neoliberal Apartheid Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994 Andy Clarno The University of Chicago Press Chicago & London The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2017 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2017 Printed in the United States of America 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 42992- 2 (cloth) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 43009- 6 (paper) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 43012- 6 (e- book) DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226430126.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Clarno, Andy, author. Title: Neoliberal apartheid : Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994 / Andy Clarno. Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016026506 | ISBN 9780226429922 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226430096 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226430126 (e- book) Subjects: LCSH: Neoliberalism— South Africa. | Neoliberalism— Palestine. | South Africa— Race relations. | Palestine— Race relations. | Decolonization— South Africa. | Arab- Israeli conflict— Social aspects. | South Africa— Social conditions—1 994– | Palestine—S ocial conditions— 21st century. Classification: LCC DT1756.C55 2017 | DDC 956.95/3044— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016026506 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48– 1992 (Permanence of Paper). ةلظنح و سكيليف لىإ For Felix and Handala One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruth- less, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation. J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians C o n t e n t s List of Maps ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism 1 1 South Africa and Palestine/Israel: Histories and Transitions 24 2 Alexandra: The Precariousness of the Poor 54 3 Bethlehem: Neoliberal Colonization 89 4 A Legalized Mafia: Security Privatization in Johannesburg 125 5 A Monopoly of Violence? Security Coordination in the West Bank 158 Conclusion: Neoliberal Apartheid 194 Notes 207 Bibliography 243 Index 279 M a p s 1 South Africa before 1994 27 2 Palestine/Israel 29 3 South Africa after 1994 33 4 The West Bank after Oslo 38 5 Johannesburg metropolitan region 45 6 Jerusalem metropolitan region 49 7 Sandton and Alexandra 59 8 Bethlehem region 93

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This is the first comparative analysis of the political transitions in South Africa and Palestine since the 1990s. Clarno's study is grounded in impressive ethnographic fieldwork, taking him from South African townships to Palestinian refugee camps, where he talked to a wide array of informants, fro
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