Fredrik Meiton
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520295889
- eISBN:
- 9780520968486
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520295889.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
Like electricity, political power travels through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. Electrical Palestine charts the construction of Palestine’s electric grid in the interwar period ...
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Like electricity, political power travels through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. Electrical Palestine charts the construction of Palestine’s electric grid in the interwar period and its implication in the area’s rapid and uneven development. It does so in an effort to rethink both the origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the interplay of politics, capital, and technology more broadly. The study follows the coevolution of the power system and Zionist state building efforts in Palestine on the conceptual and material level. Conceptually, the design and construction of the system shaped Palestine as a precisely bounded entity with a distinct political, social, and economic character. Materially, the borders of the mandate were mapped onto the power system and structured an ethno-national division of capital, land, and labor. In 1948, these coevolving forces ultimately carried over into Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness.Less
Like electricity, political power travels through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. Electrical Palestine charts the construction of Palestine’s electric grid in the interwar period and its implication in the area’s rapid and uneven development. It does so in an effort to rethink both the origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the interplay of politics, capital, and technology more broadly. The study follows the coevolution of the power system and Zionist state building efforts in Palestine on the conceptual and material level. Conceptually, the design and construction of the system shaped Palestine as a precisely bounded entity with a distinct political, social, and economic character. Materially, the borders of the mandate were mapped onto the power system and structured an ethno-national division of capital, land, and labor. In 1948, these coevolving forces ultimately carried over into Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness.
Anat Helman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197577301
- eISBN:
- 9780197577332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197577301.003.0034
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter reflects on Teaching the Arab–Israeli Conflict (2019), a collection of short essays. Each essay begins with a description of course objectives and/or content, the institutional framework ...
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This chapter reflects on Teaching the Arab–Israeli Conflict (2019), a collection of short essays. Each essay begins with a description of course objectives and/or content, the institutional framework and local culture, and the socioeconomic and/or ethno-religious make-up of the class. After this, many of the contributors go on to provide insightful reflections on how they grapple with the challenges of teaching about this conflict, facing a wide variety of student populations. Most of the authors implicitly or explicitly view and teach the conflict as a “clash of narratives” between two legitimate national movements; only one, poet and activist Philip Metres, openly frames his pedagogy within the popular colonial settler–state model. Missing from the volume is a critical discussion of the implications of choosing one of these two paradigms rather than the other. A number of teachers illustrate the importance of maps in their pedagogy; however, the maps supplied for this volume leave something to be desired.Less
This chapter reflects on Teaching the Arab–Israeli Conflict (2019), a collection of short essays. Each essay begins with a description of course objectives and/or content, the institutional framework and local culture, and the socioeconomic and/or ethno-religious make-up of the class. After this, many of the contributors go on to provide insightful reflections on how they grapple with the challenges of teaching about this conflict, facing a wide variety of student populations. Most of the authors implicitly or explicitly view and teach the conflict as a “clash of narratives” between two legitimate national movements; only one, poet and activist Philip Metres, openly frames his pedagogy within the popular colonial settler–state model. Missing from the volume is a critical discussion of the implications of choosing one of these two paradigms rather than the other. A number of teachers illustrate the importance of maps in their pedagogy; however, the maps supplied for this volume leave something to be desired.
Amikam Nachmani
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780719085727
- eISBN:
- 9781781704844
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085727.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Universities are a part of society but insist on distance, detachment and autonomy. Universities are bankrolled by society but academics demand total freedom in the domains of study, research, and ...
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Universities are a part of society but insist on distance, detachment and autonomy. Universities are bankrolled by society but academics demand total freedom in the domains of study, research, and expression of opinion and criticism of whatever goes on in the funding society. These and other questions, issues, contradictions and dilemmas, which preoccupied Prof. Jacob Talmon (1916–80) for throughout his life, were most succinctly dealt with in a series of two articles entitled ‘The idea of the university’ for the Israeli Ha'aretz newspaper (28 September and 5 October 1966). Throughout his long academic career, Talmon offered his original, often brilliant answers to these numerous questions in his books and articles. The university ideal, Judaism, intellectuals, politics, the Arab - Israeli conflict, the dynamics at work in these domains and the responses Talmon put forward in his various writings constitute the focus of this book. Talmon expressed notions and ideas which were wise, intelligent, and not least, controversial. Though his academic output began to be published as early as the 1940s, its relevance to the present is proving visionary. His work deserves to be recalled and studied. Using previously disregarded and un-translated Hebrew sources, this work attempts with caution and due modesty to follow the observation of Keith Thomas, the renowned Oxford historian, who noted that ‘much activity in the humanities is concerned to rediscover and re-interpret what once was known but has subsequently been forgotten. A better word for this is “scholarship”, with its emphasis less on new knowledge than on fresh understanding.‘Less
Universities are a part of society but insist on distance, detachment and autonomy. Universities are bankrolled by society but academics demand total freedom in the domains of study, research, and expression of opinion and criticism of whatever goes on in the funding society. These and other questions, issues, contradictions and dilemmas, which preoccupied Prof. Jacob Talmon (1916–80) for throughout his life, were most succinctly dealt with in a series of two articles entitled ‘The idea of the university’ for the Israeli Ha'aretz newspaper (28 September and 5 October 1966). Throughout his long academic career, Talmon offered his original, often brilliant answers to these numerous questions in his books and articles. The university ideal, Judaism, intellectuals, politics, the Arab - Israeli conflict, the dynamics at work in these domains and the responses Talmon put forward in his various writings constitute the focus of this book. Talmon expressed notions and ideas which were wise, intelligent, and not least, controversial. Though his academic output began to be published as early as the 1940s, its relevance to the present is proving visionary. His work deserves to be recalled and studied. Using previously disregarded and un-translated Hebrew sources, this work attempts with caution and due modesty to follow the observation of Keith Thomas, the renowned Oxford historian, who noted that ‘much activity in the humanities is concerned to rediscover and re-interpret what once was known but has subsequently been forgotten. A better word for this is “scholarship”, with its emphasis less on new knowledge than on fresh understanding.‘
Yoav Di-Capua
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226499741
- eISBN:
- 9780226499888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226499888.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
At the height of his popularity in the Middle East, in 1965, Sartre finally decided to weigh in on the Arab-Israeli conflict, visit the region and see for himself. This chapter tells the ...
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At the height of his popularity in the Middle East, in 1965, Sartre finally decided to weigh in on the Arab-Israeli conflict, visit the region and see for himself. This chapter tells the behind-the-scenes political drama of Sartre and Beauvoir’s visit to Egypt, Gaza and Israel. It begins with Sartre’s decision to intellectually engage the Arab–Israeli Conflict by asking a young Egyptian student to tutor him on the Arab position and continues with the state-lead power-play to influence Sartre’s position on the conflict.Less
At the height of his popularity in the Middle East, in 1965, Sartre finally decided to weigh in on the Arab-Israeli conflict, visit the region and see for himself. This chapter tells the behind-the-scenes political drama of Sartre and Beauvoir’s visit to Egypt, Gaza and Israel. It begins with Sartre’s decision to intellectually engage the Arab–Israeli Conflict by asking a young Egyptian student to tutor him on the Arab position and continues with the state-lead power-play to influence Sartre’s position on the conflict.
Saleem H. Ali
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- June 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780197640272
- eISBN:
- 9780197640302
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197640272.003.0011
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Geophysics: Earth Sciences
This chapter considers the role of institutions that are aimed at planetary problem-solving and yet are still bound by a highly restrictive nation-based order. Decisions on international standards ...
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This chapter considers the role of institutions that are aimed at planetary problem-solving and yet are still bound by a highly restrictive nation-based order. Decisions on international standards such as the international dateline are still dependent on individual states deciding in which time zone they fall. Some of the most acrimonious conflicts in the world cannot be resolved by these international institutions. The case example of the Arab–Israeli conflict is considered in the context of ecological order and the various proposals from powers such as the United States, but also in the light of novel grassroots ideas for redefining political order, such as a Confederation. The chapter concludes with a discussion of “earth systems governance” through the highlighting of networks and feedback loops.Less
This chapter considers the role of institutions that are aimed at planetary problem-solving and yet are still bound by a highly restrictive nation-based order. Decisions on international standards such as the international dateline are still dependent on individual states deciding in which time zone they fall. Some of the most acrimonious conflicts in the world cannot be resolved by these international institutions. The case example of the Arab–Israeli conflict is considered in the context of ecological order and the various proposals from powers such as the United States, but also in the light of novel grassroots ideas for redefining political order, such as a Confederation. The chapter concludes with a discussion of “earth systems governance” through the highlighting of networks and feedback loops.
