“If not today, then tomorrow”: Culture, socio-politics, and public involvement in city policymaking for the Palestinian minority in Israel

《“If not today, then tomorrow”: Culture, socio-politics, and public involvement in city policymaking for the Palestinian minority in Israel》

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作者: Raghda Alnabilsy;Lia Levin

来源: CITIES,Vol.137,Issue1,Article 104273

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Department of Social Work, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, Israel;Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;Department of Social Work, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, Israel;Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;School of Information Engineering, Chang’an University, Middle Section of Nan Erhuan Road, Xi’an City, Shannxi Province 710064, China;Chungnam National University, College of Social Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea;University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, 180 East Green Street, Athens, GA, 30602, USA;Department of Geography, Lab for Landscape Ecology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany;St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford OX1 2DL, United Kingdom;Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, OX1 2JA, Oxford, United Kingdom;Department of Land Economy, The University of Cambridge, Silver Street 19, CB3 9EP Cambridge, UK;School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, PR China;Rovira i Virgili University, Department of Geography, C/J. Martorell 15, 43480 Vila-seca, Spain;Erasmus University Rotterdam, Centre for Urban, Port and Transport Economics, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, the Netherlands;University of Groningen, Department of Sociology, Netherlands;Zhejiang University, Department of Sociology, China;University of Colorado Denver, United States of America;University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice, United States of America;Delft University of Technology, Department of Urbanism, Netherlands;University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom;Utrecht University, Department of Youth & Family, Netherlands;Tilburg University, Developmental Psychology, Netherlands

摘要: Research on the involvement of minority communities in city policymaking currently broadly overlooks situations in which citizens and policymakers both belong to the same ethnic minority. The present study aimed to fill this lacuna, exploring public involvement in Palestinian cities across the Jewish majority-dominated State of Israel. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 67 residents of Palestinian cities in Israel, exploring their experiences surrounding public involvement in terms of access to such involvement and its eventual influence on city policymaking. The findings of the study, elicited by Guided Thematic Analysis, show considerable differences among participants with regard to their experiences and perceptions of public involvement. Such differences were mainly observed between younger and older participants, and between men and women, and reveal the overwhelming influence of the hierarchies that prevail in traditional societies on the process and prospect of involvement. The findings also expose how belonging to dominant social groups within traditional society, entails having direct avenues of influence on city policy, and how such influence may create a false appearance of public involvement. An unforeseen issue uncovered in interviews, emphasizes the crucial role Palestinian women's activism plays in promoting inclusive city policymaking.