Law, Violence and Sovereignty among West Bank Palestinians

Name: Law, Violence and Sovereignty among West Bank Palestinians
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ISBN: 9780521868068

ISBN-10: 0521868068

ISBN-13: 9780521868068

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tobias Kelly, Chris Arup, Martin Chanock, Pat O'Malley, Sally Engle Merry

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As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of Oslo in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taking a perspective that sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a conflict over the distribution of legal rights, it focuses on the daily concerns of West Bank Palestinians, and explores the meanings, limitations and potential of legal claims in the context of the region's structures of governance. Kelly argues that fundamental contradictions in the process through which the West Bank has been ruled and misruled have resulted in an unstable mixture of legality, fear and uncertainty. Based on long term…

Book details

List price: $116.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/14/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 218
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.078

Tobias Kelly is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Glossary of organisations and acronyms


Map



Introduction



Understanding rights claims



'Jurisdictional politics' in the occupied West Bank



West Bank Palestinians across the Green Line



Claiming labour rights in the West Bank



The Palestinian National Authority and the 'national interest'



Conclusion


References


Index