Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st century /
edited by Rochelle Davis and Mimi Kirk.
- viii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Colonial projects and twentieth-century currents -- The Zionist colonization of Palestine in the context of comparative settler colonialism -- Colonial occupation and development in the West Bank and Gaza: understanding the Palestinian econou through the work of Yusif Sayigh -- War, peace, civil war: a pattern? -- pt. 2. Politics, law, and society: twenty-first-century developments and paradigms -- Palestinians following the 2006 legislative election: a critical election? -- Before Gaza, after Gaza: examining the new reality in Israel -- The legal trajectory of the Palestinian refugee issue: from exclusion to ambiguity -- The debate on Islamism and secularism: the case of Palestinian women's movements -- Other worlds to live in: Palestinian retrievals of religion and tradition under conditions of chronic national collapse -- pt. 3. Trajectories for the future, solution for a State -- Palestine in the American political arena: is a "reset" possible? -- Humans rights and the rule of law -- Lessons for Palestine from Northern Ireland: why George Mitchell couldn't turn Jerusalem into Belfast -- One State: the realistic solution.