From Shared Life to Co-Resistance in Historic Palestine (eBook)

Ronnen Ben-Arie, Marcelo Svirsky (Autoren)

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2017
240 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-965-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In its unique analysis of resistance, this book sets up a new methodology with which to study the settler colonial project in Palestine. Levering the insight that Zionism evolved as a project of ‘double elimination’ – of both the Native and shared life – the book sees to inform political work and political imagination.

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How do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Jewish shared life cannot be ignored. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, shared a life in Ottoman Palestine and in a different way during British rule. The attempt to eliminate native life involved the destruction of Arab society - its cultural hegemony and demographic superiority - but also the racial rejection of Arab-Jewish sociabilities, of shared life. Thus the settlerist process of dispossession of the Arabs was complemented with the destruction of the social and cultural infrastructure that made Arab-Jewish life a historical reality. Both operations formed Israeli polity. Can this understanding contribute to present-day Palestinian resistance and a politics of decolonisation? In this book, the authors address this question by exploring how the study of elimination of shared life can inform Arab-Jewish co-resistance as a way of defying Israel's Zionist regime. Above and beyond opposing an unacceptable state of affairs, this book engages with past and present to discuss possible futures.

Autor

lt;span>Marcelo Svirsky is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong.
Ronnen Ben-Arie is an Associate Researcher at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel-Aviv University, and teaches at the Department of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion Institute.

Inhalt

Preface, Dr Raef Zreik / 1. Formulating the Problem/ 2. Shared life in Palestine/ 3. Rewriting the Settler Colonial Paradigm/ 4. After 1948/ 5. Co-Resistance/ Afterword/ Bibliography/ Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 20 Illustrations including: - 20 Black & White Illustrations.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Colonial • Conflicit, Change and Precarity • Critical theory • Cultural Studies • Culture and Critical Theory • Israel • Middle East • Palestine • Philosophy • Politics • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-78348-965-0 / 1783489650
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78348-965-7 / 9781783489657