
Hope and Contemporary Israeli Peace Movements
The Emotional Dimension of Collective Peace Politics
Liv Halperin(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 2. December 2025
Book
Hardback
150 pages
978-1-041-10446-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle, 8 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 8 s/w Abbildungen
1 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-10446-9 (9781041104469)
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Hope and Contemporary Israeli Peace Movements
The Emotional Dimension of Collective Peace Politics
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Liv Halperin
Hope and Contemporary Israeli Peace Movements
The Emotional Dimension of Collective Peace Politics
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Routledge
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Person
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.
Content
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
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