Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century [Paperback]

Recent developments in Palestinian political, economic, and social life have resulted in greater insecurity and diminishing confidence in Israels willingness to abide by political agreements or the Palestinian leaderships ability to forge consensus. This volume examines the legacies of the past century, conditions of life in the present, and the possibilities and constraints on prospects for peace and self-determination in the future. These historically grounded essays by leading scholars engage the issues that continue to shape Palestinian society, such as economic development, access to resources, religious transformation, and political movements.

Offers a multidisciplinary lens on the past decade and deeply examines the major issues which have blighted negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis over the past 10-15 years: land, water, elections, political leadership, legal paradigms, and the death of the two-state solution. It makes for an exciting, fresh, and timely new text on Palestine and Palestinians.

Rochelle Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown Universitys Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is author of Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced.

Mimi Kirk is Editor, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. She is editor (with Chris Toensing) of Uncovering Iraq: Trajectories of Disintegration and Transformation and (with Jean-Fran?ois Seznec) of Industrialization in the Gulf: A Socioeconomic Revolution.

[P]articularly timely . . . .Feb. 28, 2014

Introduction: Palestine and the Palestinians in the Twenty-first Century Rochelle Davis

Part I. Colonial Projects and Twentieth-Century Currents
1. The Zionist Colonization of Palestine in the Context of Comparative Settler Colonialism Gabriel Piterberg
2. Colonial Occupation and Development in the West Bank and Gaza: Understanding the Palestinian Economy through the Work olã: