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From the river to the sea: Palestine and Israel in the shadow of "peace"/ edited by Mandy Turner.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.This book analyses the impacts and responses to twenty-five years of "peace" between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. It focuses on understanding the various political economies that have emerged and how different communities have developed distinct coping strategies as well as new forms of political expression and mobilization.Introduction : from the river to the sea : charting the changes in Palestine and Israel since 1993 / Mandy Turner -- The Oslo agreements : what happened? / Diana Buttu -- The localization of the Palestinian national political field / Jamil Hilal -- Lost in transition : the Palestinian national movement after Oslo / Tariq Dana -- The structural transformation of the Palestinian economy after Oslo / Raja Khalidi -- The politics of exclusion of Palestinians in Israel since Oslo : between the local and the national / Mansour Nasasra -- A new nationalistic political grammar : Jewish-Israeli society 25 years after Oslo / Yonatan Mendel -- From Singapore to the stone age : the Gaza Strip and the political economy of crisis / Toufic Haddad -- Occupied East Jerusalem since the Oslo accord : isolation and evisceration / Mansour Nasasra -- The politics of being "ordinary" : Palestinian refugees in Jordan after the Oslo agreement / Luigi Achilli -- No "plan B" because "plan A" cannot fail : the Oslo framework and western donors in the OPT, 1993-2017 / Mandy Turner -- The single state solution : vision, obstacles and dilemmas of a re-emergent alternative in flux / Cherine Hussein.1 online resourc
The political economy of western aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1993
No full textIn the summer of 2012, a Palestinian theatre company toured the West Bank with its production, Beit Yasmine (House of Yasmine). Showed to packed theatre houses, the play narrates the story of the shooting and subsequent treatment of human rights activist, Yasmine. While she lies critically wounded, her family is required to write and submit a proposal for medicine which will only be accepted if they also supply a written assurance (the Anti-terrorism Certification1) that none of it will go to ‘terrorists’. When the medicine arrives, the family discuss whether it will be addictive or not; a debate ensues where they are assured by the ‘medical expert’ that in small doses it will be beneficial. However, simultaneously, other ‘experts’ arrive with more types of medicine, and it soon becomes clear it is best that Yasmine remains ill in order to continue receiving such care, and for those around her to profit from it. The rebellious son of Yasmine, who initially opposes the medicine, is plied with offers of paid study abroad or a comfortable salary in a good job for his silence and acquiescence — thus posing him with a severe moral dilemma.
No "Plan B" Because "Plan A" Cannot fail:The Oslo Framework and Western Donors in the OPT, 1993-2017
No full textOther chapters in this book explore the experiences and responses of Israeli and Palestinian communities to the hugely significant geographic, economic and political changes that came in the aftermath of the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (DOP) in 1993. This chapter has a different focus – it analyses western donor and multilateral involvement based on the observation that these actors have played a crucial role in creating and sustaining the particular type of colonial ‘peace’ that exists in 2018. First, it provides an analysis of why, how, and with what impacts western donors have supported the DOP and have sought to put in place the foundations for the successful implementation of the two-state solution, known as ‘Plan A’. Second, it assesses their attitudes towards ‘Plan A’ at a time when many have commented on its demise due to Israeli colonial settlement expansion; and whether, in response to this context, a ‘Plan B’ is likely or in preparation
No "Plan B" Because "Plan A" Cannot fail:The Oslo Framework and Western Donors in the OPT, 1993-2017
No full textOther chapters in this book explore the experiences and responses of Israeli and Palestinian communities to the hugely significant geographic, economic and political changes that came in the aftermath of the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (DOP) in 1993. This chapter has a different focus – it analyses western donor and multilateral involvement based on the observation that these actors have played a crucial role in creating and sustaining the particular type of colonial ‘peace’ that exists in 2018. First, it provides an analysis of why, how, and with what impacts western donors have supported the DOP and have sought to put in place the foundations for the successful implementation of the two-state solution, known as ‘Plan A’. Second, it assesses their attitudes towards ‘Plan A’ at a time when many have commented on its demise due to Israeli colonial settlement expansion; and whether, in response to this context, a ‘Plan B’ is likely or in preparation
Three discourses on diasporas and peacebuilding
No full textOver the past decade academics and policymakers have increasingly recognised the growing importance of diasporas. While diasporas have been variously defined, an important common element is continued identity with the ‘home’ country even when many years have been spent in the ‘host’ country (Lyons, 2004b: 3). Some may even not have visited their ‘home country’ but offer valuable political support. For example, even though many of the Jewish diaspora in the United States have never been to Israel, let alone been born there, they nevertheless mobilise support for the Jewish ‘homeland’ (Mearsheimer and Walt, 2006). For the academic community, diasporas thus offer a challenge to the traditional ‘inside/outside’ conception of social life whereby socio-political activities are defined as either purely ‘domestic’ or purely ‘international’ (Al-Ali and Koser, 2002). Diasporas are, at one and the same time, both and neither. As suggested by Shain (2002), diasporas form a distinct ‘third level’ between interstate and domestic politics — a type of transnational actor that is becoming increasingly important due to the globalisation of markets, politics and culture. How, through what mechanisms and with what impact diasporas express themselves as ‘transnational actors’, therefore, is currently a matter of intense research. While there is an expanding literature in this area, there has been less research on diasporas in the field of conflict and peace studies. Here research has tended to emphasise the role of diasporas as ‘peace-wreckers’, though work has emerged emphasising the role of diasporas as ‘peace-makers’ (Smith and Stares, 2007)
Securing and Stabilising:Peacebuilding as Counterinsurgency in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
No full textSecuring and Stabilising:Peacebuilding as Counterinsurgency in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
No full textThree discourses on diasporas and peacebuilding
No full textOver the past decade academics and policymakers have increasingly recognised the growing importance of diasporas. While diasporas have been variously defined, an important common element is continued identity with the ‘home’ country even when many years have been spent in the ‘host’ country (Lyons, 2004b: 3). Some may even not have visited their ‘home country’ but offer valuable political support. For example, even though many of the Jewish diaspora in the United States have never been to Israel, let alone been born there, they nevertheless mobilise support for the Jewish ‘homeland’ (Mearsheimer and Walt, 2006). For the academic community, diasporas thus offer a challenge to the traditional ‘inside/outside’ conception of social life whereby socio-political activities are defined as either purely ‘domestic’ or purely ‘international’ (Al-Ali and Koser, 2002). Diasporas are, at one and the same time, both and neither. As suggested by Shain (2002), diasporas form a distinct ‘third level’ between interstate and domestic politics — a type of transnational actor that is becoming increasingly important due to the globalisation of markets, politics and culture. How, through what mechanisms and with what impact diasporas express themselves as ‘transnational actors’, therefore, is currently a matter of intense research. While there is an expanding literature in this area, there has been less research on diasporas in the field of conflict and peace studies. Here research has tended to emphasise the role of diasporas as ‘peace-wreckers’, though work has emerged emphasising the role of diasporas as ‘peace-makers’ (Smith and Stares, 2007).<br/
An Interview with Henry Turner
No full textAn Interview with Henry Turner: Author of The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651 by Jeffrey Gonzalez. This interview considers the shifting relationship between sovereigns, economics, and corporations and reviewsTurner’s analysis of the corporate unconscious in his “Corporate Ego” article. The interview asks what it might mean to reclaim the idea of corporateness for egalitarian, community-minded purposes
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