1st Edition
Organizations, Gender and the Culture of Palestinian Activism in Haifa, Israel
By Elizabeth Faier
Copyright 2005
296 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
Elizabeth Faier
