Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
About the Book Series
The Arab-Israeli conflict continues to be the centre of academic and popular attention. This series brings together the best of the cutting edge work now being undertaken by predominantly new and young scholars. Although largely falling within the field of political science the series also includes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary contributions.
Emplaced Resistance in Palestine and Israel: The Cases of Hebron, Silwan and al-Araqib
1st Edition
By Marion Lecoquierre
May 31, 2023
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict gravitates constantly around the question of territorial control due to the settler-colonial principle present at the core of the Zionist project. Acknowledging space as a central tool of domination used by the Israeli authorities, this volume sheds light on the way...
Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Strategies
1st Edition
By Liyana Kayali
January 09, 2023
This book explores Palestinian women’s views of popular resistance in the West Bank and examines factors shaping the nature and extent of their involvement. Despite the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993 and 1995, the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the contemporary period have ...
The Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Resistance and Disobedience
1st Edition
By Julie M. Norman
January 09, 2023
Providing a contemporary history of the Palestinian prisoners movement, this book illustrates the centrality of the movement in the broader Palestinian national struggle. Based on direct interviews with former prisoners and former security sector personnel, it offers new insights into the ...
Women, Reconciliation and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Road Not Yet Taken
1st Edition
By Giulia Daniele
August 14, 2018
Women, Reconciliation and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict explores the most prominent instances of women’s political activism in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel, focussing primarily on the last decade. By taking account of the heterogeneous narrative identities existing in such ...
Political Conflict and Exclusion in Jerusalem: The Provision of Education and Social Services
1st Edition
By Rawan Nuseibeh
December 13, 2017
The political conflict over the city of Jerusalem has resulted in the breach of Palestinian Jerusalemites’ civil, political and social rights. While Israel claims sovereignty over East Jerusalem, it neglects to provide adequate services to the Palestinian residents of the city. The Israeli ...
The Re-Emergence of the Single State Solution in Palestine/Israel: Countering an Illusion
1st Edition
By Cherine Hussein
December 13, 2017
Providing the first in-depth intellectual and organizational mapping of the single state idea’s recent resurgence in Palestine/Israel, this book enquires into its nature as a phenomenon of resistance, as well as into its potential as a counterhegemonic force in the making against the processes of ...
Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948: A Tale of Two Cities
1st Edition
By Itamar Radai
November 28, 2017
Between November 1947 and May 1948 war between the Palestinian Arab community and the Jewish community encompassed Palestine, with Jerusalem and Jaffa becoming focal points in the conflict due to their centrality, size and symbolic importance. Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948 examines ...
Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine: Politics and Development
1st Edition
By Maha Samman
May 31, 2017
Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine, this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the various theoretical frameworks in colonial ...
Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit
1st Edition
By Elia Zureik
December 01, 2015
Colonialism has three foundational concerns - violence, territory, and population control - all of which rest on racialist discourse and practice. Placing the Zionist project in Israel/Palestine within the context of settler colonialism reveals strategies and goals behind the region’s rules of ...
Reparations to Palestinian Refugees: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Shahira Samy
March 27, 2014
This book delves into the issue of reparations in relation to Palestinian refugees in their search for a solution to their displacement and dispossession. Highlighting the broad spectrum of reparations available as forms of remedy for a historical injustice, the author probes the reasons behind the...
Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant
1st Edition
Edited
By Are Knudsen, Sari Hanafi
February 25, 2014
More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps across the Middle ...
Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa: Civil society and peace building in ethnic-national states
1st Edition
By Amneh Badran
June 24, 2013
This book is a comparison of two ethnic-national "apartheid" states – South Africa and Israel – which have been in conflict, and how internal dissent has developed. In particular it examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful ...