Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-21589-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, based on the encounter between history and anthropology.

Informed by the anthropological method of setting large questions to intimate settings, the book examines processes of Zionist colonization, nation-building and Palestinian dispossession by focusing on encounters between members of different national, religious and ethnic groups “from below”—through paying close attention to life stories and reconstructing everyday practices and micro-histories of places and communities. Thus, it tells a complex story in which the practices of historical actors are not simply reducible to a single underlying logic of colonization, even as they participate in the production and reproduction of colonial structures. This approach effectively undermines the prevailing tendency to study national communities in isolation, projecting onto the past an essentialist and rigid separation. Rather than assuming two clearly bounded and monolithic national groups, caught from the start in perpetual conflict, this volume probes their historical production through their evolving relationships, and their varied and shifting political, social, economic and cultural manifestations.

The book will be of interest to students and researchers in an array of fields, including the history of Israeli-Palestinian relations, anthropological perspectives on settler colonialism, and Zionism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirsch, Dafna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Entangled Histories through a Magnifying Glass  Section I: Jews and Arabs Pre-1948 2. The Violent Struggle over Land: The Beginning of the Zionist Armed Settlement Strategy, 1908-1914 3. “The Same Sea”: Jews and Palestinians on the Beach in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods  Section II: Practices and Memories of Displacement 4. Miracles and Snow in Palestine and Israel: Tantura, a History of 1948 5. Coping with the Present Past: Personal Recollection among Palestinian Internally Displaced Persons  Section III: Facing the Settler State 6. Accumulation and Surveillance: The Military Rule in Lydda, July 1948-July 1949 7. The First Act in the Struggle of the Ma'barot, 1951-1952: Contestation amid Subjection 8. When “Human Material” Says No: Noncompliance, Resistance and Protest among the Settlers of the Lakhish Project, 1954-1962  Section IV: Labor and the Formation of National and Ethnic Hierarchies 9. Reconstructing the Labor Process: The Of-Ar Factory, 1961-1979 10. The Men Who Knew Too Much: Sardines, Skills and the Labor Process in Jaffa, Israel,1948-1979  Section V: Telling/Cleansing History 11. Palestine’s Absent Cities: Gender, Memoricide, and the Silencing of Urban Palestinian Memory 12. Discourse of Separation: Taboos and Depoliticization in Haifa’s Guided Tours 13. Silenced in History? Naqab Bedouin Women and their Narratives of the Past 14. Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Dafna Hirsch is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel. She has published many articles and is the author of the book "We Are Here to Bring the West": Hygiene Education and Culture Building in the Jewish Society of Mandate Palestine (2014, Hebrew). Her work focuses on food consumption, the body, and gender in Zionist history.