Israeli-Palestinian Activism
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Abu Saf
activism in unrecognised Bedouin villages
anti-G8 Demonstration
arab
Arab Bedouin Village
Arab Palestinian Citizens
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bedouin
Bedouin Town
Broader Social Field
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Category=JP
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cross-cultural networks
Emergency Tents
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Ethnographic Episodes
ethnographic fieldwork
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Ghost Village
House Demolitions
Humanitarian Aid
humanitarian intervention
identity politics
indigenous rights
institutional
Institutional Lobby
Interpretative Categories
Israeli Palestinian Activism
Israeli Palestinian Space
lobbying
Negev
Negev Desert
Northern Negev
Oren Yiftachel
Oxfam GB
saf
Social Movement Studies
social movement theory
space
town
unrecognised
Unrecognised Villages
Urban Kibbutz
villages
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367599607
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When do words and actions empower? When do they betray? Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this volume tracks the repercussions of advocacy activism against house demolitions in 'unrecognised' Arab-Bedouin villages in Israel's southern 'internal frontier'. It highlights the repercussions of activism for victims, fund-raisers and activists. The ethnographic episodes show how humanitarian aid intervention and indigenous identity politics can turn into a double-edged sword. Ironically, institutional lobbying for coexistence and its interpretative categories can sometimes perpetuate different forms of subjugation. The volume also shows how, beyond the institutional lobbying, novel figures of activism emerge: informal networks create non-sectarian, cross-cutting countercultures and rethink human-environment relationships. These experimental political subjects redefine the categories of the conflict and elude the logic of zero-sum games; they point towards a shifting paradigm in current ethnopolitics. Koensler outlines an ethnographic approach for the study of social movements that follows multiple relations around mobilisations rather than studying activism in itself. This perspective thus becomes relevant for scholars and activists engaged with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and those interested in global rights discourses.
Alexander Koensler is Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen's University Belfast, UK.
