Reapproaching Borders New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine
by Sufian, Sandy; Levine, Mark; Ramadan, Moussa Abou; Abowd, Thomas; Alatout, Samer; Baram, Uzi; Campos, Michelle; Davidovitch, Nadav; Forman, Geremy; LeVine, Mark; Monterescu, Daniel; Seidelman, Rhona; Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona; Shvarts, Shifra; Willen, Sarah SFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-08-27
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary
Territorial borders, identity borders, and many other kinds of social and cultural borders are constantly questioned in the Israel-Palestine debate. In Reapproaching Borders New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, a new generation of scholars explore the concept of borders and how they are imagined and actualized in this deeply contested land.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Investigating Borders in the Case of Israel-Palestine | p. 1 |
| Narrating the Past | p. 13 |
| Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel | p. 15 |
| Remembering Jewish-Arab Contact and Conflict | p. 41 |
| Reapproaching the Borders of Nazareth (1948-1956): Israel's Control of an All-Arab City | p. 67 |
| Constructing Healthy Identities and Landscapes | p. 95 |
| Defining National Medical Borders: Medical Terminology and the Making of Hebrew Medicine | p. 97 |
| Contested Bodies: Medicine, Public Health, and Mass Immigration to Israel | p. 121 |
| Seeing the "Holy Land" with New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body | p. 145 |
| Masculinity as a Relational Mode: Palestinian Gender Ideologies and Working-Class Boundaries in an Ethnically Mixed Town | p. 177 |
| From Water Abundance to Water Scarcity (1936-1959): A "Fluid" History of Jewish Subjectivity in Historic Palestine and Israel | p. 199 |
| Shaping Citizens and Space in Israel-Palestine | p. 221 |
| Seizing Locality in Jerusalem | p. 223 |
| Present and Absent: Historical Invention and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Jerusalem | p. 243 |
| Framing the Borders of Justice: Sharia Courts in Israel and the Conflict between Secular Ideology and Islamic Law | p. 267 |
| Modernity and its Mirror: Three Views of Jewish-Palestinian Interaction in Jaffa and Tel Aviv | p. 287 |
| Conclusion: Reapproaching the Border | p. 307 |
| Index | p. 313 |
| About the Editors and Contributors | p. 321 |
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