Boycott! - The Academy and Justice for Palestine

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29488-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 184 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? In this short essential book, Sunaina Maira addresses these key questions. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the United States as well as in Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement’s implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization, and neoliberal capitalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maira, Sunaina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Overview
Introduction

1. Boycott as Tactic
Here and There
2. The Academic Boycott Movement
3. Backlash
The Boycott and the Culture/Race Wars
4. Academic Abolitionism
Boycott as Decolonization

Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.