Search Results for West Bank

...Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Stamatopoulou-Robbins’s essay begins with an unlikely meeting between two groups—Israeli settlers and Palestinian village residents—who together opposed construction of a Palestinian Authority–run landfill in the central West Bank. Attention to this 2013 moment...

... is entrenching private ownership in the West Bank and, as land speculation threatens to erode Palestinian control over territory, inciting debate about its limits. Land titling is creating a new political temporality in the ruins of state-building, one that illuminates how legacies of colonial law...

...Lucy Garbett Abstract This article is about an ownership dispute between two Palestinian families in the West Bank. The dispute moves between Palestinian and Israeli forums while drawing upon the legal patchwork of Ottoman, British, and Jordanian land laws, and Israeli military amendments...

...Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Abstract This article draws on fieldwork in the West Bank (2007–2017) to understand how dispossession and ruination are not only spatialized, but engaged and remade. It examines experiences of a settler frontier in Faqu'a, a Palestinian village. People there have...

... of a Palestinian flict with the fast-growing presence of Zionist settlers Authority (PA) with self- rule over parts of the West in Palestine. Following the 1936 Palestinian rebellion Bank and Gaza Strip. Democracy is sometimes pre- against both the British policy and the Zionist project sented, overtly...

... of Palestinians more per­man­ ent, espec­ ially in comm­ un­ it­ies subjected to Israel s mili­t­ary and sett­ler-colon­ ial plans in the West Bank.8 Other schola­ rs have ana­lyzed the Israeli mil­it­ary s use of con­crete as a form of pun­ishm­ ent. For exam­ple, Rodrigo Delso highl­ ights how the Israeli...

... the           2008 leverage: “The current map of the West Bank is madness. Under the five-year interim agree- 3, No. -2008-025   ment, the Israelis have grudgingly been handing back slices of territory: either...

... the White House re- tacks on New York City and Washington on Sep- peatedly criticized the Israeli campaign of intimida- tember 11, the intensity of Israeli military attacks on tion and incursion.11 the West Bank stepped up. Palestinians claimed that Throughout October, Sharon defied American Sharon...

... borders were re-defined as a result of the June War. The period between the two papal journeys to the Holy Hashemite Kingdom lost Jerusalem—the core of Jor- Land, Jordan was forced to re-make a collective identity dan’s claim to the Holy Land—as well as the West Bank, through the promotion of sites...

... (INGO) Palestinian cantons of ‘territoriality.’1 and donor counterparts. The uprising beckons these By 2003, however, as the Palestinian uprising enters organizations to intervene and respond to the humani- its third year, a palpable sense of crisis is evident. Not tarian crisis in the West Bank...

... political environments such as the urbanism and nomadism, and their impact on the devel- West Bank and Gaza. Thus, it is not surprising that is- opment of individual personality and community life in sues of identity, control, and resistance, among others, Iraq.2 Similarly, there are the valuable studies...

... photographers and a desire to cleanse the Palestinians with some becoming the “Arab minority” in holy land from signs and evidence of histories other Israel and other becoming Jordanians in eastern Pales- than the Judeo-Christian one. Palestine was reduced to a tine that was renamed “the West Bank...

... and instead engage with the politics of decolonization, oriented to a pan-Palestinian network of their generational counterparts in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the diaspora. Nerdeen, a twenty-something activist, explained to me early on that while longtime figures such as Sami Abu Shehadeh, a former...

...-Zionist, if not ity from the political system and to forge some explicitly anti-Zionist. In the wake of the 1967 form of commonality among all white South war and the occupation of the West Bank, in- Africans. Then the justifi cations based on civi- creasingly heard among some in the settler...

.... During the 1948 War, the Jordanian Army, without men- King Hussein also bestowed his largesse on the social, tion of its leadership under John Bagot Glubb, succeeded in educational, and economic fields of the country. Each text- protecting East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Then, because book...

... in the death of a twenty- year- old Yusra al- Azami, who was shot in the head by men a liated with Hamas for walking on the beach with her fianc In the West Bank, a group within the Palestinian Authority (PA) used a sex tape to trap and humiliate an o cial in the PA, Rafiq al- Husseini, under the guise...

... that allowed for a system of property transfers. Paul Kohlbry offers an ethnography of surveyors titling land across the overlapping jurisdictions of the West Bank highlands, and identifies the paradoxical forces this process generates as it seeks to stake a national patrimony while reinforcing private...

... West Bank . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2017 . Brothman Brien . “ Orders of Value: Probing the Theoretical Terms of Archival Practice .” Archivaria 32 ( 1991 ): 78 – 100 . Brudholm Thomas . Resentment’s Virtue: Jean Améry and the Refusal to Forgive...

... research for my book Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics , I spoke with refugees living in camps in Lebanon, Jordan, and the West Bank. In the summer of 2011, I interviewed “Abu Firas” in Wihdat camp, in the eastern part of Amman. He was about ten years old...