Reapproaching Borders New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine

by Sufian, Sandy; Levine, Mark; Ramadan, Moussa Abou; Abowd, Thomas; Alatout, Samer; Baram, Uzi; Campos, Michelle; Davidovitch, Nadav; Forman, Geremy; LeVine, Mark; Monterescu, Daniel; Seidelman, Rhona; Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona; Shvarts, Shifra; Willen, Sarah S

• ISBN13: 9780742546394
• ISBN10: 074254639X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Territorial borders, identity borders, and many other kinds of social and cultural borders are constantly questioned in the Israel-Palestine debate. In Reapproaching Borders New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, a new generation of scholars explore the concept of borders and how they are imagined and actualized in this deeply contested land.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction; Investigating Borders in the Case of Israel-Palestine	p. 1
Narrating the Past	p. 13
Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel	p. 15
Remembering Jewish-Arab Contact and Conflict	p. 41
Reapproaching the Borders of Nazareth (1948-1956): Israel's Control of an All-Arab City	p. 67
Constructing Healthy Identities and Landscapes	p. 95
Defining National Medical Borders: Medical Terminology and the Making of Hebrew Medicine	p. 97
Contested Bodies: Medicine, Public Health, and Mass Immigration to Israel	p. 121
Seeing the "Holy Land" with New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body	p. 145
Masculinity as a Relational Mode: Palestinian Gender Ideologies and Working-Class Boundaries in an Ethnically Mixed Town	p. 177
From Water Abundance to Water Scarcity (1936-1959): A "Fluid" History of Jewish Subjectivity in Historic Palestine and Israel	p. 199
Shaping Citizens and Space in Israel-Palestine	p. 221
Seizing Locality in Jerusalem	p. 223
Present and Absent: Historical Invention and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Jerusalem	p. 243
Framing the Borders of Justice: Sharia Courts in Israel and the Conflict between Secular Ideology and Islamic Law	p. 267
Modernity and its Mirror: Three Views of Jewish-Palestinian Interaction in Jaffa and Tel Aviv	p. 287
Conclusion: Reapproaching the Border	p. 307
Index	p. 313
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 321
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