Temporary Relocation of Capital City as a Performative: Comparative Analysis of German, Israeli and Palestinian Cases

This work is devoted to the study of the temporary relocation of capital cities as an aberrant phenomenon for the state structure. Three cases of Germany, Israel and Palestine are considered. A research approach involves a combination of performative analysis and frame analysis. The basis is on spatial analysis of temporary capital cities’ locations using the method of political-spatial geographical modeling. The comparative method allowed us to focus on significant properties, which increased the quality of interpretations and the completeness of the study of the topic. The mechanism of reproduction of the political tradition of the capital is also being investigated. According to the results of the study, for each of the three cases, it is established how a large-scale performative manifests a primary frame for the temporary relocation of capitals, and at the level of political and social routine performs performative intervention in political and social orders and procedures.