Organizations, Gender and the Culture of Palestinian Activism in Haifa, Israel

ISBN-13: 9780415650540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str.

Elizabeth Faier

Opis

This book, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel. It concentrates on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructions of modernity.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Backgrounds: Fieldwork and Palestinians in Israel  3. New Venues: Nongovernmental Organizations and Social Change  4. Activism: Support, Conflict, and Ideas  5. Two Tales of a City: History, Space and Identity  6. Honor, Land, and Protest  7. (Re)Producing Honor: Gender, Family and Violence  8. Difficult Modernity: Rights, Citizenship, and the State

O autorze

Elizabeth Faier