Memory and the Return of History in a Settler-colonial Context: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel

Rouhana, Nadim N.; Sabbagh‐Khoury, Areej

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2018.1558102

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“…In this view, the efforts to promote a shared society are nothing but another way of oppression , a view Rouhana and Sabbagh‐Khoury (2019) also share. According to them, the struggle for equality, which was led by the communist party in earlier years and later by various NGOs, cooperated with the colonial process of Zionism, and thus weakened the Palestinian national struggle.…”

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The glocalization of the shared society concept in Israel

Rosen

2021

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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In November 2008, the Madrid Club's Shared Societies Project published “A Call to Action for Shared Societies” (Club de Madrid 2009). It included a list of commitments, among them, creating opportunities for consultation of minorities, monitoring structures and policies, etc. (ibid, p. 37). The present article seeks to Follow the glocalization process of the principles and describe the ways the concept of “shared society” reached Israeli civil society Describe these through the example of one conference. Follow narratives regarding the “birth of the concept’ Explore the dissemination strategies. Understand the different interpretations attached to it and compare them to the parallel global discourse Describe the implementations and/or rejections. Explore the challenges involved. (While the Club de Madrid recommendations were written to serve governments, in Israel, they were used mainly by civil society organizations, sometimes in cooperation with local authorities. The Israeli government was nor particularly interested in the principles, which was one of the reasons the Club de Madrid ceased its work in the country around 2015).

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The glocalization of the shared society concept in Israel

Rosen

2021

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“…I bring forth five types of cases to explore how citizenship became a mechanism for anticolonial politics, even as it served as a mode of settler colonial domination and ABD. Elsewhere, I have explained how Palestinian resistance practices gradually constituted the “return of history” (Rouhana and Sabbagh-Khoury 2019), that is, the ascription and reinvigoration of new political meaning to 1948’s foundational violence.…”

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Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession: The Paradox of Settler Colonial Citizenship

Sabbagh‐Khoury

2022

Sociological Theory

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This article extends critical trends of citizenship studies and the theory of accumulation by dispossession to articulate how settler colonial citizenship is instantiated through the active accrual of land and resources and how the emerging settler colonial citizenship entrenches both structural subjugation and resistance. The article then examines the reformation of the boundaries of citizenship through indigenous agency. I do so through examining the Palestinian citizens in Israel, specifically centering the Internally Displaced Persons—Palestinians who received Israeli citizenship even as they were displaced from their places of origin. I conclude by asserting citizenship’s double paradox in settler colonial contexts: It regulates certain rights and mobilities but simultaneously entraps the indigenous in a structure in which recursive accumulation is constitutive, thus entrenching dispossession and the further loss of collective rights and other claims.

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“…7 Within these accounts, performances in contested, traumatized sites have been understood as constituting part of the place's memoryscape (Lee 2017)-"its geographical dimensions of cultural memory" (Ibid, p. 72)-and as playing a significant role in contesting, challenging, and refuting dominant representations of place and past by creatively (re)shaping and reconstructing these images (Lee 2017;Gómez-Barris 2009;Carrico 2020;Hochberg 2015;Hirsch 2019). I continue this line of thought and examine it in the context of Palestinians in Israel, where the past Palestinians witnessed and collectively experienced is to this day denied and silenced (Rouhana and Sabagh-Khoury 2017;Yiftachel 2021;Benvinisti 2002); where hostility, dispossession and intimidation are conditions that Palestinians still endure; and where they are subjected to institutionalized inequality and (legally structured) discrimination (Rouhana 2017;Rouhana and Sabagh-Khoury 2015;Yiftachel 2021). In the past few decades, however, the Palestinian society in Israel has also become characterized by the remarkable growth of both an educated middle class (Jamal 2017;Reches 2014), and women artists.…”

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“…When Abu Elasal stages a procession of young Arab women in black stylish dresses on the Suzanne Dellal grounds (whether or not it is associated with a funeral procession), viewers are offered a vision of Arab urban life-prior to 1948 as well as today-right there across the street, on the outskirts of Jaffa, and specifically of Arab women without need of anyone's patronage-either then or today. This image is radical not only because it brings Arab women into the White City, 34 challenging Tel Aviv's whiteness and Israel's separatist ethnonational practices, or because it alludes to the Nakba, a generally taboo topic in Israeli public discourse (Rouhana and Sabagh-Khoury 2017;Manna 2017). The image is profound also because it retrieves and re-imagines the forgotten Palestinian city and Palestinian urban women (Hasan 2008(Hasan , 2017(Hasan , 2019, replacing the image of the traditional, rural Arab woman 35 with strong, confident, politically aware and culturally engaged women.…”

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Rerooted and Reimagined: Dance, Palestinian Women, and the Reclamation of Urban Spaces

Ophir

2022

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Manar Hasan employs the term “memoricide” to describe the systematic eradication of Palestinian society from modern memory, a process, she points out, that occurred not only through the destruction of its major cities, but also through the erasure from public consciousness the inhabitants of those cities, and specifically the Palestinian women who once played highly visible, integral roles within them. This paper enters into conversation with Hasan’s argument in its exploration of the work of Palestinian choreographer Shaden Abu Elasal, focusing on dances performed in urban spaces—locations from which she draws historical and creative inspiration to imbue her choreography with layers of meaning. I show how through her choreography, Abu Elasal reroots and uproots herself from the place in the very same acts of dance. She resurrects both the city and the women, revealing the obscured and retrieving the forgotten. I argue, then, that in staging dances in what Marc Augé terms “anthropological places” in Israel/Palestine, locations saturated with historical and conceptual significance, Abu Elasal both deepens her roots to the land, her land, and rises anew from it, freeing herself of its heavy shackles. Moreover, by reintroducing specifically Palestinian women dancers as elements of the “flesh and stone” of Israel/Palestine, spaces rife with histories of trauma, dominated by patriarchy and a Zionist ideology that privileges Jewishness and whiteness, Abu Elasal excavates a forgotten past, negotiates a restrictive present, and shapes a future for herself and her community. The paper brings together the ideas of anthropological space, which recognizes the identity of place as not merely physical but comprised of the breadth of human activity (symbolism, history, imagination, vision) that has taken and is taking place in it; and dance’s power to inspire a sense of losing oneself or transcending the existing, tangible world. In both ideas, consciousness and the material, stone and body, entwine and shape one another in the ongoing process of (re)forming identity and reclaiming history.

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Memory and the Return of History in a Settler-colonial Context: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel

Cited by 18 publications

References 19 publications

The glocalization of the shared society concept in Israel

The glocalization of the shared society concept in Israel

Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession: The Paradox of Settler Colonial Citizenship

Rerooted and Reimagined: Dance, Palestinian Women, and the Reclamation of Urban Spaces

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