In the fraught case of East Jerusalem, the concept of biopolitics offers fresh insight equally into Israeli efforts to manage the city and into the scope for non-violent Palestinian resistance. The broader significance of the project lies in the capacity of biopolitics to present a fresh conceptualization of post-Oslo Israel/Palestine, shedding new light on the demographic dimensions of the conflict. 

Nigel Parsons is Senior Lecturer in the Politics Programme at Massey University, New Zealand. His research focuses on Palestinian institutions. Funded by a grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand, Nigel is currently researching Israeli population management understood through the concept of ‘biopolitics’, plus the institutional responses of the Palestinian Authority.

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