The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

ISBN-13: 9780367663223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 100 str.

Michelle Pace; Somdeep Sen

Opis

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank explores the manner in which the Palestinian Authority’s performative acts affect and shape the lives and subjective identities of those in its vicinity in the occupied West Bank

Spis treści

Prelude  1. The Theatrics of the ‘State’: An Introduction  2. Palestine and the ‘Global’ imperative of State-Building  3. The Palestinian Authority and its ‘anxious’ functionaries  4. Operating in the shadow of the ‘state’: The case of civil society organizations  5. The ‘state’ and its ‘unwilling’ subjects  6. Conclusion  Bibilography

O autorze

Michelle Pace is Professor (MSO) at Roskilde University’s Department of Social Sciences and Business. She is also Honorary Professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her research areas of interest include migration studies, memory studies, and emotions in IR.

Somdeep Sen is a postdoctoral researcher at Roskilde University. His research centers on spatial politics, settler colonialism, postcolonialism, and migration in the Middle East and Europe. He has published on the Israeli–Palestinian ‘conflict’ and co-edited a volume on Syrian refugee children’s journeys in exile (Routledge, 2018)