Reapproaching Borders
New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine
Published on 27. October 2007
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-7425-4638-7 (ISBN)
Description
Territorial borders, identity borders, and many other kinds of social and cultural borders are constantly questioned in Israel-Palestine. Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine explores the concept of borders, how they are imagined and actualized in this deeply contested land. The book focuses on the "implicate relations" between Palestinian Arabs and Jews, providing new insights into the origins and dynamics of the conflicts between them. Emphasizing the history of the non-elite members of both communities, the book sees the relations between Jews and Palestinian Arabs as embedded and reflected in areas of daily living, such as in the spheres of architecture, commerce, health sexuality, and the courts. Using the voices of the new generation of scholars, Reapproaching Borders demonstrates the continued saliency of older themes such as ownership and rights to the land, but as they intersect with the newer areas of inquiry, such as sexual identity politics and spatial relations.
Reviews / Votes
This collection brings together exciting new work by a group of innovative younger scholars who are at the cutting edge of research on the modern history of Palestine, Israel and Zionism. Their explorations of how territorial and ethnic as well as intellectual boundaries in a variety of domains have been constructed and maintained-but also frequently crossed-help open up promising new ways of thinking about Arab-Jewish relations and interactions. -- Zachary Lockman, Professor of Modern Middle East history, New York University An intreguing reading of the memoirs of an Arabic-speaking Jewish businessman....This book should be of interest to anyone interested in the history and politics of Israel-Palestine, as well as broader audiences concerned with sociology of law and medicine, space, architecture and conflict, states, and gender. * Journal of Palestine Studies * This is an exciting cross-disciplinary look at the intersecting Israeli-Palestinian communities over time. The organizing metaphor of shifting and porous borders is an excellent way to unify this new research. -- Michelle Mart, associate professor of history, Pennsylvania State UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
662 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-4638-7 (9780742546387)
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Persons
Sandy Sufian is assistant professor of medical humanities and history at the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine. Mark LeVine is professor of history at University of California-Irvine.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction: Investigating Borders in the case of Palestine/Israel Part 2 Narrating the Past Chapter 3 Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel Chapter 4 Remembering Jewish-Arab Contact and Conflict Chapter 5 Re-Approaching the Borders of Nazareth (1948-1956): Israel's Control of an all-Arab City Part 6 Constructing Healthy Identities and Landscapes Chapter 7 Defining National Medical Borders: Medical Terminology and the Making of Hebrew Medicine Chapter 8 Contested Bodies: Medicine, Public Health, and the Mass Immigration to Israel Chapter 9 Seeing the "Holy Land" with New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body Chapter 10 Masculinity as a Relational Mode: Palestinian Working-class Gender Ideologies and Categorical Boundaries in a Jewish-Palestinian Mixed Town Chapter 11 From Water Abundance to Water Scarcity (1936-1959): A 'fluid' history of Jewish subjectivity in Historic Palestine and Israel Part 12 Shaping Citizens and Space in Palestine/Israel Chapter 13 Seizing Locality in Jerusalem Chapter 14 Present and Absent: Historical Invention and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Jerusalem Chapter 15 Framing the Borders of Justice: Shari'a Courts in Israel and the Conflict Between Secular Ideology and Islamic Law Chapter 16 Modernity and its Mirror: Three Views of Jewish-Palestinian Interaction in Jaffa and Tel Aviv Chapter 17 Concluding Remarks