Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Davis, Rochelle; Kirk, Mimi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Specialists on Palestinian politics, history, economics, and society examine the continuities that bind the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Recent developments in Palestinian political, economic, and social life have resulted in greater insecurity and diminishing confidence in Israel's willingness to abide by political agreements or the Palestinian leadership's ability to forge consensus. This volume examines the legacies of the past century, conditions of life in the present, and the possibilities and constraints on prospects for peace and self-determination in the future. These historically grounded essays by leading scholars engage the issues that continue to shape Palestinian society, such as economic development, access to resources, religious transformation, and political movements. "The multidisciplinary essays in this volume portray a nation contemplating the possibility of stalemate, hemmed in, and searching for outlets to express its self-determination.... [Davis and Kirk] divide the book thematically into three sections, focusing broadly on colonialism and its effects, politics and law in the Palestinian territories, and the future of the Palestinian state and its place in the international system." - Publishers Weekly

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 293
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253010919
• Artikelnr.: 39878559

Autorenporträt

Rochelle Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is author of Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Mimi Kirk is Editor, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. She is editor (with Chris Toensing) of Uncovering Iraq: Trajectories of Disintegration and Transformation and (with Jean-François Seznec) of Industrialization in the Gulf: A Socioeconomic Revolution.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Palestine and the Palestinians in the Twenty-first
Century        Rochelle Davis
Part I. Colonial Projects and Twentieth-Century Currents
1. The Zionist Colonization of Palestine in the Context of Comparative
Settler Colonialism        Gabriel Piterberg
2. Colonial Occupation and Development in the West Bank and Gaza:
Understanding the Palestinian Economy through the Work of Yusif
Sayigh        Leila Farsakh
3. War, Peace, Civil War: A Pattern?                Tamim al-Barghouti
Part II. Politics, Law, and Society: 21st-century Developments and
Paradigms
4. Hamas Following the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Election: A Critical
Victory                As'ad Ghanem
5. Before Gaza, After Gaza: Examining the New Reality in Israel/Palestine
        Sara Roy
6. The Legal Trajectory of the Palestinian Refugee Issue: From Exclusion to
Ambiguity        Susan Akram
7. The Debate on Islamism and Secularism: The Case of Palestinian Women's
Movements        Islah Jad
8. Other Worlds to Live In: Palestinian Retrievals of Religion and
Tradition under Conditions of Chronic National Collapse        Loren
Lybarger
Part III. Trajectories for the Future, Solutions for a State
9. Palestine in the American Political Arena: Is a "Reset"
Possible?        Michael C. Hudson
10. Human Rights and the Rule of Law        Noura Erakat
11. Lessons for Palestine from Northern Ireland: Why George Mitchell
Couldn't Turn Jerusalem into Belfast        Ali Abunimah
12. One State: The Realistic Solution         Saree Makdisi