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From Expert Rule to Bureaucratic Authority: Governing the Bedouin

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From Expert Rule to Bureaucratic Authority: Governing the Bedouin

Belge, Ceren (2009) From Expert Rule to Bureaucratic Authority: Governing the Bedouin. Israel Studies Forum, 24 (1). pp. 82-108. ISSN 1558-545X

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/isf.2009.240105

Abstract

This paper examines shifting modalities of government over Bedouins of the Negev. During the first two decades of statehood, Israeli officials approached Bedouins as a relatively quiescent population, based on their understanding that the Bedouins' tribal loyalties guaranteed their aloofness from Palestinian national politics. From the 1970s on, however, Bedouin resistance to Israeli land and settlement policies began to mark the Bedouin increasingly as a 'dangerous population'. As a result, the interest in preserving the Bedouins' cultural specificity gave way to a new emphasis on the need to modernize the Bedouins. The shift in governmental discourse was accompanied by a pluralization in the techniques of government, from an informal 'government of experts' to one in which bureaucratic and impersonal modes of authority competed with expert rule.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Political Science
Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Authors:Belge, Ceren
Journal or Publication:Israel Studies Forum
Date:2009
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):10.3167/isf.2009.240105
ID Code:974089
Deposited By: ANDREA MURRAY
Deposited On:29 May 2012 15:16
Last Modified:18 Jan 2018 17:37
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