| From Shared Life to Co-Resistance in Historic Palestine Contributor(s): Svirsky, Marcelo (Author), Ben-Arie, Ronnen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783489642 ISBN-13: 9781783489640 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $55.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Middle Eastern - Social Science | Sociology - General - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory |
| Dewey: 956.940 |
| LCCN: 2017040652 |
| Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (0.65 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ben-Arie, Ronnen: - 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.Svirsky, Marcelo: - Marcelo Svirsky is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong. |
