The agricultural settlement of the Arabah and the political ecology of Zionism

M Kaminer - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2022 - cambridge.org
Agricultural settlement geared to capitalist commodity production and accompanied by
massive ecological interventions has historically been central to the Zionist colonial project …

The mobile and carceral logics of Haifa Port

S Plonski - Politics, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates Haifa Port's carceral and mobile geographies by examining how
Israel is being re-made, rebranded, and harnessed as 'safe and secure space'for the transits …

Terroir and territory on the colonial frontier: Making new-old world wine in the Holy Land

D Monterescu, A Handel - Comparative studies in society and history, 2020 - cambridge.org
Etymologically related, the concepts of terroir and territoriality display divergent cultural
histories. While one designates the palatable characteristics of place as a branded story of …

Saving the face of the Arabah: Thai migrant workers and the asymmetries of community in an Israeli agricultural settlement

M Kaminer - American Ethnologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the 1990s, Israeli agricultural settlements in the remote Central Arabah region have
relied heavily on the cheap labor power of Thai migrant workers. Yet the agrarian settler …

Wash Your Hands! Domestic Labor and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism

A Deumert… - Applied Linguistics and …, 2022 - torrossa.com
Let me begin with a statement: capitalism—its rhetoric of rationality not withstanding—is shot
through with emotion and affect. The affective nature of capitalism is not a result of Post …

Emirati expats in social media: A new arena for involvement and political expression?

H Baycar - Identities, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Citizens' online participation has gained momentum from voting to activism. Citizens of the
United Arab Emirates actively utilize social media platforms and online sphere to express …

The Israeli labor market

T Kristal, A Rozenfeld-Kiner - Routledge Handbook on …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Contemporary transformations in work and employment in the Israeli economy and their
impact on the earning structure are explored in this chapter. The first part sets the stage of …

[PDF][PDF] Crucial Yet Disavowed: Thai Migrant Farmworkers and Israel's Migration Regime

Y Kurlander - Geography Research Forum, 2024 - researchgate.net
Israeli farmers have employed Thai migrants since the 1980s. In this paper, we describe the
gradual emergence of an institutionalized and regulated migration regime, characterized by …

“No Foreign Workers, No Agriculture, No Region”: Thai Farmworkers in Israel in the Wake of War

M Kaminer - Global Labour Journal, 2024 - mulpress.mcmaster.ca
There is perhaps no more paradigmatically settler-colonial activity than agriculture,
especially in the Palestinian/Israeli context. Zionist strategists perceived the takeover of …

Regime changes and the impact of informal labor: The case of Thai workers in Southern Israel

IG Or - Linguistic Landscape, 2021 - jbe-platform.com
Abstract In Israel, approximately 25,000 Thai laborers are contracted for agricultural work in
all parts of the country, following a series of bilateral agreements between the governments …