Journal
CITIZENSHIP STUDIES
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 85-99Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2016.1252719
Keywords
Citizenship; human rights; Israel; neocorporatism; political participation; trade unions
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- British Academy [NF150454]
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Citizenship is increasingly investigated not just in terms of rights and duties, but as contentious, evolving and continuously forged anew. This article analyzes an Israeli High Court ruling from 2007 to show how a liberal, human rights-based discourse enabled effective citizenship within neocorporatist frameworks for those outside the formal political community. The ruling, which extended Israeli labor law to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, marks the breakdown of neocorporatism's fundamental premise of congruence between labor force participation and participation in the political sphere, which engenders new opportunities for rejecting subjecthood and demanding inclusion. This marks a new development in the balance between the conflicting imperatives of economic inclusion and political exclusion in Israel's relations with the Palestinians, and legitimizes practices of citizenship where formal political space is denied. It is not yet the de-nationalizing' of the state, but may be a step in decoupling effective citizenship from national belonging.
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