Law, violence and sovereignty among West Bank Palestinians / Tobias Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Tobias.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--West Bank.

Human rights.

West Bank.

Palestinian Arabs--Civil rights.

Palestinian Arabs.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Peace.

Physical Description:

xvi, 199 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of Oslo in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taking a perspective that sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a struggle over the distribution of legal rights, it focuses on the daily concerns of West Bank Palestinians, and explores the meanings, limitations and potential of legal claims in the context of the region's structures of governance. Kelly argues that fundamental contradictions in the process through which the West Bank has been ruled and misruled have resulted in an unstable mixture of legality, fear and uncertainty. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book provides an insight into how the wider Middle East conflict manifests itself through the daily encounters of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, offering an evocative and theoretically informed account of the relationship between law, peace-building and violence.

Contents:

2 Understanding rights claims 26

3 'Jurisdictional politics' in the occupied West Bank 54

4 West Bank Palestinians across the Green Line 80

5 Claiming labour rights in the West Bank 113

6 The Palestinian National Authority and the 'national interest' 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-193) and index.

ISBN:

0521868068

OCLC:

71347578

Publisher Number:

9780521868068