Hope and Contemporary Israeli Peace Movements

The Emotional Dimension of Collective Peace Politics
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-10446-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

This book investigates and compares two contemporary Israeli peace movements through the angle of collective emotions, and specifically of hope.

Drawing on empirical qualitative research combining interviews with Jewish and Arab-Palestinian activists and ethnographic work, the work provides unique documentation of the birth and development of Standing Together (a mixed-gender peace movement) and Women Wage Peace (a women’s peace movement). It explores the meaning of hope for Israeli peace activists, and shows the concrete efforts that both movements undertake to trigger hope, as part of an intersectional peace politics and of a non-partisan women’s peace politics, respectively. The book also engages with the post-October 2023 developments in the Middle East, showing how both peace movements, now followed by others in the Israeli peace camp, continue to invest in their politics of hope amid devastation, fatigue and fear. Offering a gendered typology of hope-related emotion work useful beyond the cases at hand, the book proposes that collective hope-based action, combined with other emotions, might be powerful in all contexts of despair and protracted conflicts.

This book will be of interest to students of peace and conflict studies, social and peace movements, gender studies, non-violent resistance, international relations and Israel–Palestine/Middle East.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halperin, Liv

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of tables and figures

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Standing Together: Intersectional Politics, Bilingualism and Jewish–Arab Partnership

Chapter 3: Women Wage Peace: Non-partisan and Positive, Maternalist Politics of Peace

Chapter 4: What Hope Means for Israeli Peace Activists

Chapter 5: How Standing Together and Women Wage Peace Trigger Hope

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Appendix: List of Israeli/Palestinian activists groups/movements mentioned in the book

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Liv Halperin is Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Senior Advisor for Peacebuilding during Peace Negotiations at PeaceWomen across the Globe. She is a feminist peacebuilding practitioner and scholar, whose work and research focus on peace, conflict transformation, non-violent resistance and gender in Israel/Palestine, and was Director of Research and Policy at the Israeli policy think tank ECF until 2023. She holds a PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.