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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>and the Origins of Separatism in
1920s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Palestine</st1:City></st1:place></span></font></b></span><b><span
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w:st="on">Aviv</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></font></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>In 1921, ignoring Arab opposition, the British
government of <st1:City w:st="on">Palestine</st1:City> handed a concession for
the production and distribution of electricity in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Jaffa</st1:City></st1:place> region to a Jewish entrepreneur.
Over the next four years, the city of <st1:City w:st="on">Jaffa</st1:City>,
including the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">township</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tel Aviv</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, had been
electrified. The purpose of this paper is to trace some connections between the
laying out of the electrical grid and the emergence of Arab and Jewish
nationalism. Using insights from the sociology of space and from
actor-network-theory, I suggest that the technical creation of the electrical
network at once also created the infrastructure for the consolidation of two
distinct regions: Arab Jaffa and Jewish Tel Aviv, thereby anticipating the
paradigm of national separatism that became dominant in years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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