Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine

by Moussa Abou Ramadan, Thomas Abowd, Samer Alatout, Uzi Baram, Michelle Campos

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742546394
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/24/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.07(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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

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

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 University

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

From the Publisher

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