The “One Carceral State”
Mass Incarceration and Carceral Citizenship in Palestine/Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8965860 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Smadar Ben-Natan (0000-0001-8383-9511, University of Oregon, corresponding author), Dana Boulus (Al-Quds University), Shirley Le Penne (Cornell University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 379-406 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743824000953 |
| OpenAlex | W4406379622 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 47 |
Using the concept of the carceral state, this article articulates how Israel’s control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has shifted to a nondemocratic one-state paradigm. While, initially, Israel operated a separate military carceral system for these areas, between 2000 and 2006 it dismantled the military system, transferred most Palestinian prisoners into Israel, and rebranded its civilian prison service as the National Prison Authority, making it the sole agency responsible for the incarceration of Palestinians. This reorganization consolidated a single carceral system inside Israeli territory—the one carceral state— which serves as crucial evidence of the de facto one-state paradigm and forms a centerpiece of this new regime in Israel/Palestine. By analyzing a broad range of archival and administrative documents and 168 Supreme Court decisions on the management of prisons and Palestinian prisoners, this study reveals how the massive “exclusionary inclusion” of the Palestinian prisoner population in Israeli state law and its administrative mechanisms changes the entire landscape of the Israeli settler-colonial citizenship regime. Palestinian prisoners become “carceral citizens” of the “one state” and are subject to a parallel, alternate legality, in which they expand their repertoire of resistance against the wider racialized and repressive regime across Palestine/Israel
Agency (philosophy · Citizenship · Colonialism · Criminology · Mass incarceration · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Prison · Sociology · State (computer science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
The Writing on the Wall
Of Mimicry and ManThe Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse
A History of Confinement in Palestine
Israelis and Palestinians in the Shadows of the Wall
Citizenship as Domination
Hobbesian Citizenship
Justice for Some
Palestinian Political Prisoners
The Palestinian Prisoners Movement
Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
Being Israeli
Settler-colonial citizenship
Israel's Creeping Annexation
Repressive inclusion
Annexation in right-wing Israeli discourse—The case of Ribonut
Nationalizing States and the Constitution of ‘Hollow Citizenship’
The jurisprudence of elimination
Deadly Symbiosis
The dual penal empire
Terrorism and risk management
Carceral Citizenship
Understanding conflict penality
The boundaries of the carceral state
Is “work the path to rehabilitation”
Engendering hunger strikes
Paradigm Lost
Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation
Rights as a Divide-and-Rule Mechanism
Social Agency, Spatial Practices, and Power
Lockdown
Rejecting Defeat and Approaching Liberation
The New Jim Crow
Mass Imprisonment
Global Perspectives on the Birth of the Prison
Introduction
Rise of the Carceral State
Sumud
Dimensions of Everyday Resistance
Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession
Tracing Settler Colonialism
Bypassing 1948
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |