Gary Fields. Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror; Gershon Shafir. A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict; Salim Tamari. The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine; Ilan Pappe. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories; Norman G. Finkelstein. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom; Michael Sfard. The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights.
Ilana Feldman
In a 1981 review essay, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod described the contours of what he termed “Palestiniology”—dominant features in academic study Palestine that viewed as obstacles to understanding “the social and cultural evolution Palestinians modern times” (“The Pitfalls Palestiniology,” Arab Studies Quarterly 3, no. 4 [1981]: 405). A central tenet Palestiniology was tendency put question Zionism at center any historical inquiry into Palestinian experience. such cases, politics, life, personal experiences risked becoming most secondary, worst irrelevant historiography Palestine. Zionist settlement Israeli state action have indeed been fundamental history, does not suggest these forces should be ignored. The problem is, part, one perspective. body scholarship on experience has grown enormously ensuing decades. Scholars addressed pitfalls Palestiniology” through significant expansion questions they ask about Some them challenged reigning paradigm evaluations impact policy practice lives without positing only agentive play.
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