Thinking Palestine / edited by Ronit Lentin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lenṭin, Ronit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Palestinian Arabs--Israel--History--20th century.

Palestinian Arabs.

Palestinian Arabs--Government policy--Israel.

Palestinian Arabs--Government policy.

History.

Israel.

Palestine--History--1917-1948.

Palestine.

Israel--History.

Israel--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

vii, 264 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Thinking Palestine brings together an inter-disciplinary group of Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who theorize 'the question of Palestine'. Critically committed to supporting the Palestinian quest for self-determination, they present new theoretical ways of thinking about Palestine. These include the 'Palestinization' of ethnic and racial conflicts, the theorization of Palestine as camp, ghetto and prison, the tourist/activist gaze, the role of gendered resistance, the centrality of the memory of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) to the contemporary understanding of the conflict, and the historic roots of the contemporary discourse on Palestine. The book offers a novel examination of how the Palestinian experience of being governed under what Giorgio Agamben names a 'state of exception' may be theorized as paradigmatic for new forms of global governance. An indispensable read for any serious scholar.

Contents:

Introduction: Thinking Palestine / Ronit Lentin 1

Part I The Palestinianization of Race 23

1 Racial Palestinianization / David Theo Goldberg 25

2 Globalizing Racism and Myths of the Other in the 'War on Terror' / Gargi Bhattacharyya 46

Part II Palestine: Biopolitics and States of Exception 63

3 Thanatopolitics: The Case of the Colonial Occupation in Palestine / Honaida Ghanim 65

4 Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: Laboratories of State-in-the-Making, Discipline and Islamist Radicalism / Sari Hanafi 82

5 Incarceration and the State of Exception: Al-Ansar Mass Detention Camp in Lebanon / Laleh Khalili 101

6 The Ghettoization of the Palestinians / Alina Korn 116

7 The Persistence of the Exception: Some Remarks on the Story of Israeli Constitutionalism / Raef Zreik 131

8 The Mukhabarat State of Israel: A State of Oppression is not a State of Exception / Ilan Pappe 148

Part III Palestine: Contested Representations 171

9 Palestinian Munadelat: Between Western Representation and Lived Reality / Nahla Abdo 173

10 Authenticity and Political Agency on Study Trips to Palestine / David Landy 189

11 The Contested Memory of Dispossession: Commemorizing the Palestinian Nakba in Israel / Ronit Lentin 206

12 The State, the Text and the Critic in a Globalized World: The Case of Edward Said / Conor McCarthy 221

13 Understanding the Present Through the Past: Between British and Israeli Discourses on Palestine / Anaheed Al-Hardan 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781842779071

1842779079

9781842779064

1842779060

OCLC:

181601702

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