A Genealogy of the Contemporary Israeli-Palestinian Political Field. Technologies of Power and Subjectivization Processes from State-Building to Apartheid System

This work aims at analysing the interaction of different technologies of power operating in the Israeli-Palestinian political field, as well as their historical emergence and their role in creating the conditions for the establishment of the State of Israel and of the Israeli Apartheid system, with a particular attention to the colonial aspects inherent to these processes. Using a Foucauldian framework, which defines the political field as a space of struggle between oppressive forces and resistant ones, attention will be paid also to the Palestinian resistance efforts. Starting from the realization of the state-building process by the Zionist movement since the 1880s, the study analyses the subjectivization processes occurred from the establishment of the State of Israel and the following military rule in the Occupied Territories until nowadays.