Repressive inclusion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14799781
AutoresJohn Reynolds (0000-0002-0885-4460, ,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen49
Número3
Páginas268-293
Fecha de publicación2017-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0732-9113 • E-ISSN: 2305-9931
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07329113.2017.1388100
OpenAlexW4229667550
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas23

This article examines the relation between emergency legal doctrine and racial sovereignty in the context of Palestine. It theorises Israel's multifarious emergency modalities in a colonial present paradigm where traditional territorial colonisation is fused with modern security biopolitics. The Israeli juridical-security apparatus mimics European liberal legalism in presenting itself as generally accepting of human rights obligations, save in circumstances where particular illiberal measures are necessitated on security grounds. These measures, however, comprise a pervasive patchwork of emergency modalities that have penetrated all spheres of Palestinian political, economic and cultural life. The retention and application of the British Mandate-era Defence Emergency Regulations as well as the constitutional state of emergency have produced an emergency marked by longevity and racialisation. Furthermore, Israel has invoked the emergency derogation option under international treaties to claim the legality of measures such as mass internment without trial. I articulate these dynamics of legality, emergency and sovereignty in terms of “repressive inclusion”: a racially contingent inclusion within – and repression by – the juridical order. This evokes the suffocating hold of racialised emergency legal structures. The consequences for Palestinian lives and bodies have been severe; the alienation of land and fragmentation of territory have been acute

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