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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Important for the study of Palestinians, for the study of contemporary Israeli society, and for the field of the urban, as it shows us something important about a marginalized group that cannot act as a 'collective' that at times loves the liberal city and at times is spit out from it."—Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam
"Hackl not only shows the limits of Israeli democracy but also the tactics that different Palestinians must undertake in order to work and live in a city that categorically stigmatizes them as outsiders."—Nadeem Karkabi, University of Haifa
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Using the Settler City: Immersive Invisibility and the Palestinian Struggle for Urban Access in Tel Aviv
1. A Journey without Arrival? Palestinian Mobility into the Jewish City
2. A Middle-Class Gateway to Tel Aviv: Palestinian Citizens at Israel's Liberal University
3. Working in the City: Palestinian Middle-Class Citizens and Labor Commuters between Anonymity and Forced Invisibility
4. Playing in Tel Aviv: Leisure and Fun in the Palestinian Underground
5. A Cultural Exile: Palestinian Artists in Tel Aviv between Individual Liberation and Political Cooptation
6. The Urban Politics of (In)Visibility: Marginalized Activism and the Non-Recognition of Palestinian Tel Aviv
7. When the Liberal Bubble Bursts: Violent Events and the Circular Temporality of Exclusion and Stigmatization
Conclusion: A Settler Colonial City for All its Residents? Palestinian Tel Aviv and the Future of Liberal Urbanism in Israel/Palestine
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