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Law, violence and sovereignty among West Bank Palestinians, Tobias Kelly

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Law, violence and sovereignty among West Bank Palestinians, Tobias Kelly

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Law, violence and sovereignty among West Bank Palestinians

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

252532464

Responsibility statement

Tobias Kelly

Series statement

Cambridge studies in law and societyCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of Oslo in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taking a perspective that sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a conflict over the distribution of legal rights, it focuses on the daily concerns of West Bank Palestinians, and explores the meanings, limitations and potential of legal claims in the context of the region's structures of governance. Kelly argues that fundamental contradictions in the process through which the West Bank has been ruled and misruled have resulted in an unstable mixture of legality, fear and uncertainty. Based on long term ethnographic fieldwork, this book provides an insight into how the wider Middle East conflict manifests itself through the daily encounters of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, offering an evocative and theoretically informed account of the relationship between law, peace-building and violence.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Understanding rights claims -- 'Jurisdictional politics' in the occupied West Bank -- West Bank Palestinians across the Green Line -- Claiming labour rights in the West Bank -- The Palestinian National Authority and the 'national interest' -- Conclusion

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Law, Violence & Sovereignty Among West Bank Palestinians

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