Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace
This thesis examines how Israeli critical activist engagement with the Palestinian call for just peace reframes Israel-Palestine. The thesis makes a political-theoretical intervention by arguing that Israeli civil society engagement with the principles underlying just peace requires, if it is to be...
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| description | This thesis examines how Israeli critical activist engagement with the Palestinian call for just peace reframes Israel-Palestine. The thesis makes a political-theoretical intervention by arguing that Israeli civil society engagement with the principles underlying just peace requires, if it is to be successful, the utilisation of non-statist conceptualisations of peace politics. The thesis draws upon feminist critical theory and postcolonial critique to theorise peace politics as a practice of solidarity. From this perspective the conflict is analysed through the prism of Nancy Fraser’s ‘all affected’ principle which asserts that all those whose lives and wellbeing are affected by an institution of power, whether that be a state or a transnational corporation, are subjects of justice in relation to that institution, whether they hold the same citizenship as its representatives or not. Thus, by virtue of sharing the same, albeit politically diffentiated, geo-political space Israelis and Palestinians residing in Israel within its 1948 borders, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as the refugees outside Israel-Palestine, are subjects of justice and potential solidarity. As such, the Palestinians have the right to demand justice not only from the state of Israel but also from its citizens. The activist work, narratives and responses of three critical Israeli case study groups are examined in relation to the call for just peace: Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW), the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), and Zochrot (Remembering). The activist narratives and practices examined testify to the way in which critical Israeli engagement with nonviolent ethical responsibility towards the Palestinian people can result in unprecedented narrative convergence, practical solidarity, and the possibility for non-domination and cohabitation. These critical activist practices reveal just peace as an emergent and ongoing project to reframe and rearticulate the contemporary relations of oppression and domination in Israel-Palestine. |
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| spelling | nottingham-140492025-02-28T11:28:34Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14049/ Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace Todorova, Teodora This thesis examines how Israeli critical activist engagement with the Palestinian call for just peace reframes Israel-Palestine. The thesis makes a political-theoretical intervention by arguing that Israeli civil society engagement with the principles underlying just peace requires, if it is to be successful, the utilisation of non-statist conceptualisations of peace politics. The thesis draws upon feminist critical theory and postcolonial critique to theorise peace politics as a practice of solidarity. From this perspective the conflict is analysed through the prism of Nancy Fraser’s ‘all affected’ principle which asserts that all those whose lives and wellbeing are affected by an institution of power, whether that be a state or a transnational corporation, are subjects of justice in relation to that institution, whether they hold the same citizenship as its representatives or not. Thus, by virtue of sharing the same, albeit politically diffentiated, geo-political space Israelis and Palestinians residing in Israel within its 1948 borders, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as the refugees outside Israel-Palestine, are subjects of justice and potential solidarity. As such, the Palestinians have the right to demand justice not only from the state of Israel but also from its citizens. The activist work, narratives and responses of three critical Israeli case study groups are examined in relation to the call for just peace: Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW), the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), and Zochrot (Remembering). The activist narratives and practices examined testify to the way in which critical Israeli engagement with nonviolent ethical responsibility towards the Palestinian people can result in unprecedented narrative convergence, practical solidarity, and the possibility for non-domination and cohabitation. These critical activist practices reveal just peace as an emergent and ongoing project to reframe and rearticulate the contemporary relations of oppression and domination in Israel-Palestine. 2014-07-18 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14049/1/Thesis_Final_Todorova_17_01_14.pdf Todorova, Teodora (2014) Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Israel-Palestine just peace critical activism feminist critical theory framing |
| spellingShingle | Israel-Palestine just peace critical activism feminist critical theory framing Todorova, Teodora Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace |
| title | Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace |
| title_full | Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace |
| title_fullStr | Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace |
| title_short | Reframing Israel-Palestine: critical Israeli responses to the Palestinian call for Just Peace |
| title_sort | reframing israel-palestine: critical israeli responses to the palestinian call for just peace |
| topic | Israel-Palestine just peace critical activism feminist critical theory framing |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14049/ |