Synopses & Reviews
This book 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.
About the Author
Ronit Lentin, senior lecturer in Sociology, is the director of the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the coordinator of the Global Networks project at the Institute of International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Thinking Palestine - Ronit Lentin
Part I: The Palestinianization of Race
1. Racial Palestinianization - David Theo Goldberg
2. Globalizing racism and myths of the other in the war on terror - Gargi Bhattacharyya
Part II: Palestine: Biopolitics and States of Exception
3. Bio-power and thanato-politics: The case of the colonial occupation in Palestine - Honaida Ghanim
4. Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: Laboratories of State-in-the-Making, Discipline and Islamist Radicalism - Sari Hanafi
5. Sovereignty and the state of exception: al-Ansar mass detention camp in Lebanon - Laleh Khalili
6. The ghettoization of Palestine - Alina Korn
7. The persistence of the exception: Some remarks on the story of Israeli constitutionalism - Raef Zreik
8. The Mukhabarat State of Israel: A State of Oppression is not a State of Exception - Ilan Pappe
Part III: Palestine: Contested Representations
9. Palestinian 'Munadelat': Between Western Representation and Lived Reality - Nahla Abdo
10. Authenticity and political agency on study trips to Palestine - David Landy
11. The contested memory of dispossession: Commemorizing the Palestinian Nakba in Israel - Ronit Lentin
12. The state, the text and the critic in a globalized world: The case of Edward Said - Conor McCarthy
13. Understanding the present through the past: Between British and Israeli discourses on Palestine - Anaheed Al-Hardan