On the Meaning of Land: Reclaiming the Palestinian Selfhood

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  • Ahmed Idrees

Keywords:

Palestine, Land, Settler Colonialism

Abstract

BILAL AWA D SALAMEH, On the Meaning of Land: Reclaiming the Palestinian Selfhood (Doha/Beirut ACRPS, 2021), pp. 207.

References

  1. The study of peasant society forms a field within rural sociology. See, for example: Teodor Shanin, “Peasantry: Delineation of a Sociological Concept and a Field of Study,” European Journal of Sociology , vol. 12, no. 2 (1971), pp. 289-300.
  2. Bilal Awad Salameh, Fī maʿnā al-Arḍ: Istiʿādat al-Dhāt al-Filasṭīniyya [Arabic] (Doha/Beirut ACRPS, 2021), p. 9. 3 Ibid., p. 10.
  3. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007).
  4. Revolving around peasant production and various related practices, such as production of milk, cheese, fertilisers, and animal husbandry.
  5. Salameh, Fī maʿnā al-Arḍ , p. 29.
  6. Walid Habbas, “al-Istiʿmār al-Istiṭānī: Naḥw Iṭār Naẓarī Jadīd,” [Arabic] Qadaya Israʾiliyya , vol. 17, no. 66 (July 2017), pp. 125-126. The author dedicates a subsequent book to the study of place and its role in civil resistance, concentrating on the case of Jerusalem. See: Bilal Awad Salameh, Fī Maʿnā al-Makān: Waḥy min Durūs al-Muqāwama al-Maqdisiyya [Arabic] (Beirut: Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2023).
  7. Salameh, Fī maʿnā al-Arḍ , pp. 45-46
  8. Salameh roots this in a deep and critical reading of the conditions of social action given the critical challenges that the Palestinian question offers to the question of the social agent and their position. See: Bilal Awad Salameh, “al-Fāʿil al-Ijtimāʿī: Ruʾya Naqdiyya fī Ḍawʾ Taḥaddiyāt al-Mashhad al-Filasṭīnī,” [Arabic] al-Mustaqbal al-Arabi , vol. 37, no. 431 (January 2015), p. 54.
  9. See for example: Dawr al-Muthaqqaf fī al-Taḥawwulāt al-Tārīkhiyya [Arabic] (Doha/Beirut: ACRPS, 2017).
  10. Salameh, Fī maʿnā al-Arḍ , pp. 138-142.
  11. Such as Hanna Batatu’s study of the peasantry and the social makeup, in particular the part on the link between Sufism and the peasantry. See: Hanna Batatu, Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
  12. For example, the various studies on biopolitics, surveillance, and the apartheid wall in Palestine, such as: Umut Ozguc, “Beyond the Panopticon: The Separation Wall and Paradoxical Nature of Israeli Security Imagination,” paper presented at the Australian Political Studies Association Conference, “Connected Globe: Conflicting Worlds,ˮ University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 27-29/9/2010.
  13. For example, Ismail Nashef has written on “return” among Palestinians as an act rooted in the survival instinct, a strategy of resistance to social death as represented by society’s inability to manage its own necro-affairs. See: Ismail Nashef, Ṣuwar Mawt al-Filasṭīnī [Arabic] (Doha/Beirut: ACRPS, 2015).
  14. See: Walter D. Mignolo, “Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, The Logic of Coloniality, and the Grammar of De-Coloniality,” Cultural Studies , vol. 21, no. 2-3 (2007), pp. 449-514; Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “On the Coloniality of Being: Contributions to the development of Concepts,” Cultural Studies , vol. 21, no. 2-3 (2007), pp. 240-270.
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