Israeli decolonization and critical sociology

Journal of Palestine Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 23-35

  Shafir, Gershon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0002116320     PISSN: 0377919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2538256     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Avishai Ehrlich, "Israel: Conflict, War, and Social Change," in The Sociology of War and Peace, ed. Colin Creighton and Martin Shaw (London: Macraillan, 1987), p. 130.
2. See Baruch Kimmerling, Zionism and Territory (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, 1983);
3. Baruch Kimmerling in collaboration with Irit Backer, The Interrupted System: Israeli Civilians in War and Routine Times (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1985).
4. Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
5. D.K. Fieldhouse, The Colonial Empires from the Eighteenth Century (New York Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966), pp. 11-22, 372;
6. George Fredrickson, "Colonialism and Racism: The United States and South Africa in Comparative Perspective," in his The Arrogance of Race (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988), pp. 218-21.
7. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987);
8. Avi Shlaim, Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988);
9. Ilan Pappé, Britain and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1948-1951 (New York Macmillan, 1988).
10. Aharon Megged, "The Israeli Suicide Instinct," Ha'Aretz, 10 June 1994 (in Hebrew).
11. Anita Shapira, "Politics and Collective Memory: The Debate over the 'New Historians' in Israel," History and Memory 7, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995), p. 30.
12. Shapira, "Politics and Collective Memory," p. 32.
13. Morris's Birth appeared in 1987,
14. Shlaim's Collusion
15. Pappé's Britain in 1988,
16. my own Land, Labor and Origins in 1989.
17. One of the first works to use the term "myth" as its nemesis was Simha Flapan, who subtitled his 1987 work The Birth of Israel (New York Pantheon, 1987) as a contrast of "Myths and Realities," but this is an agenda and term used by other "new historians" as well.
18. See, for example Ilan Pappé, "Critique and Agenda: The Post-Zionist Scholars in Israel," History and Memory 7, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995), pp. 77-78;
19. Avi Shlaim, "The Debate About 1948" (Paper presented at the Association for Israel Studies Conference, Gratz College, Melrose Park, 12-13 June 1994).
20. See, for example, Howard Morley Sachar, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 172.
21. A recent study of Palestinian agriculture during the Mandate by Charles Kamen, Little Common Ground: Arab Agriculture and Jewish Settlement in Palestine 1920-1948 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), concluded that "Jewish settlement, and in particular the Zionist policy of economic exclusiveness, hindered Arab economic development" (p. 271).
22. When the mandatory authorities tried to suggest alternative land to displaced Palestinian fellahin, Zionist land purchasing organizations were opposed on the grounds that eventually they hoped to acquire that land as well.
23. Yosef Gorny, "The Ideology of the Conquest of Labor," Keseth, no. 38 (Winter 1968), pp. 77-78 (in Hebrew).
24. Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak, The Origins of the Israeli Polity: Palestine under the Mandate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), pp. 16-17.
25. See, for example, Ran Aaronsohn, "Baron Rothschild and the Initial Stage of Jewish Settlement in Palestine (1882-1890)." Journal of Historical Geography 19, no. 2 (1993);
26. Zeev Tsahor, "Colonialist or Colonizer," Ha'Aretz, 22 December 1994 (in Hebrew);
27. my reply, "The Colonial Question," Ha'Aretz, 5 January 1995 (in Hebrew).
28. See my "Changing Nationalism and Israel's 'Open Frontier' on the West Bank," Theory and Society 13, no. 6 (November 1984), p. 803.
29. Megged, "The Israeli Suicide Instinct."
30. For their typology see Shafir, Land, Labor and Origins, pp. 8-9.
31. Similarly, white settlement in South Africa was recognized by the ANC and the South African Communist Party as "colonialism of a special type."
32. Michael Shalev, Labour and the Political Economy in Israel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 and 1993);
33. Michael Shalev, "The Death of the 'Bureaucratic' Labor Market? Structural Change in the Israeli Political Economy," (Unpublished paper, 1994).
34. See Yoav Peled and Gershon Shafir. "The Roots of Peacemaking: The Dynamics of Citizenship in Israel, 1948-1993," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (forthcoming August 1996).