South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 117, Issue 1 (Jan 2018): Palestine beyond National Frames: Emerging Politics, Cultures, and Claims
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School of Oriental and African Studies
: A - 22A Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : A - 22A Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 23567
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/issue/117/1
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- This special issue resulted from an international workshop I organised together with Sophie Richter-Devroe in Athens in September 2015 funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, which featured 14 selected invited papers. The conference theme stemmed from my long- term fieldwork research with displaced Palestinians and aimed at bringing about a paradigm shift in Palestinian studies and the anthropology of protracted displacement and refugeehood more widely. Rather than starting from the “national” to understand the political imaginaries of the refugees, this volume interrogates the national from those positioned at its margins, crossing its visible and invisible borders. This is a particularly urgent task at a time when the limits of nationalism are manifest both as an aspiration and as a historical manifestation on the ground. The central kernel of the edited volume, explored at length in the co-authored introduction, revolves around how self-determination encompasses more radical visions for justice than those afforded by nationalism. Foregrounding a Gramscian and a decolonial approach my single authored article explores how Palestinians imagine, become subjects and mobilize through visions and political practices which dislodge nation-statist or humanitarian frames. Together these offer a frame to read the nuanced and ethnographically informed analyses in the single papers focussing on indigeneity, transversal class micro politics, post-national rights, de-territorialised political economies and networks. After thorough feedback and editorial interventions by myself and the co-editor, aimed at orienting and sharpening the arguments to strengthen the cohesiveness of the volume, the papers went for further anonymous peer review. This engagement resulted in a path breaking edited volume aimed at rethinking the subject, place and space of political agency in the grey areas of statelessness, exile and displacement. If offers a crucial contribution to the field of political anthropology shedding light on radical imaginaries of liberation in the Palestinian context and beyond.
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