The Untold Story of the Golan Heights: (eBook, PDF)

Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani Resistance
Redaktion: Mason, Michael; Dajani, Muna; Eldin, Munir Fakher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 1967 Israel occupied the western section of Syria's Golan Heights, expelling 130,000 residents and leaving only a few thousand Arab inhabitants clustered in several villages. Sometimes characterised as the 'forgotten occupation', the western Golan Heights have been transformed by Israeli colonisation, including the appropriation of land and water resources, economic development and extensive military use.

This landmark volume is the first academic study in English of Arab politics and culture in the occupied Golan Heights. It focuses on an indigenous community, known as the Jawlanis, and their experience of everyday colonisation and resistance to settler colonisation. Chapters cover how governance is carried out in the Golan, from Israel's use of the education system and collective memory, to its development of large-scale wind turbines which are now a symbol of Israeli encroachment. To illustrate the ways in which the current regime of Israeli rule has been contested, there are chapters on the six-month strike of 1982, youth mobilisation in the occupied Golan, Palestinian solidarity movements, and the creation of Jawlani art and writing as an act of resistance.

Rich in ethnographic detail and with chapters from diverse disciplines, the book is unique in bringing together Jawlani, Palestinian and UK researchers. The innovative format - with shorter 'reflections' from young Arab researchers, activists and lawyers that respond to more traditional academic chapters - establishes a bold new 'de-colonial' approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755644537
• Artikelnr.: 65439639

Autorenporträt

Michael Mason is Director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where he is also Associate Professor in Environmental Geography. He publishes on global environmental governance, politics and security. He is author of The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility across Borders (2005) and Environmental Democracy (1999), co-author of Transparency in Global Environmental Governance (2014) and co-editor of Renewable Energy in the Middle East (2009). Muna Dajani is Research Officer at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. For over 9 years, she has worked in the fields of environment and development in Palestine, working with grassroots initiatives, NGOs, universities and governmental bodies. She received her PhD from the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Munir Fakher Eldin is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine. He is also a research fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, Ramallahx, Palestine. He has published numerous articles in national and international journals. He completed his PhD at New York University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Representing the occupied Jawlan/Golan
Muna Dajani
Lancaster University
UK; Munir Fakher Eldin
Birzeit University
Palestine; and Michael Mason
LSE
UK I: EVERYDAY COLONIZATION Chapter 2: The Politics of Lifeworld Colonisation in the occupied Golan: Michael Mason
LSE
UK Reflection 1: The 1982 General Strike
Bassel Rizqallah
Birzeit University student
Palestine II: THE POLITICS OF THE GOVERNED Chapter 3: Mapping the Politics of the Governed among the Jawlanis: A Semiotic Approach
Munir Fakher Eldin
Birzeit University
Palestine Reflection 2: The occupied Syrian Golan and Birzeit University: A Story of Solidarity
Diaaeddin Horoub
journalist and researcher
Palestine Reflection 3: The occupied Syrian Golan Heights after 2011: The Constant and Variable
Aram Abu Saleh
Syrian writer and activist
occupied Syrian Jawlan III: THE POLITICS OF JAWLANI ART Chapter 4: Sculptures in Jawlani Public Places: Reflections on the Work of Identity
Wael Tarabieh
Jawlani artist
and Munir Fakher Eldin
Birzeit University
Palestine Reflection 4: The Jawlani Art and Cultural Scene
Abdel Qader Thweib
Birzeit University student
Palestine Reflection 5: The Role of Literature and Folk Music in Resisting Israelization of the Jawlan
Nadine Musallam
journalist IV: THE POLITICS OF JAWLANI YOUTH AND EDUCATION Chapter 5: Israeli Education Policies as a Tool for the Ethnic Manipulation of the Arab Druze
Amal Aun
independent researcher Reflection 6: How to Counter-map the Jawlani Lands: Visualizing Memory
Place and Identity
Jumanah Abbas
independent researcher Reflection 7: The Concept of 'Jawlani Youth': Between Colonial Policies and Society
Ali Aweidat
Syrian researcher and activist
occupied Syrian Jawlan V: A JAWLANI POLITICAL ECOLOGY Chapter 6: Being in Place: On the Jawlan Formation and Agroecological History of Highlands
Omar Tesdell
Birzeit University
Palestine
Muna Dajani
Lancaster University
UK; and Alaa Iktash
Palestinian researcher
Al Quds (Jerusalem) Reflection 8: From Jabal al-Shaykh to Mount Hermon Ski Resort
Alaa Iktash
Palestinian researcher
Al Quds (Jerusalem) 7 Conclusion: The Jawlan as Counter-Geography
Muna Dajani
Lancaster University
UK; Munir Fakher Eldin
Birzeit University
Palestine; and Michael Mason
LSE
UK