Postnational Palestine/Israel? Globalization, Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 757-772

  Rabinowitz, Dan ^a  

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EID: 33745348753     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/448990     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. See Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. (London, 1991)
2. Fredric Jameson, "Nostalgia for the Present," South Atlantic Quarterly 88 (Spring 1989): 517-37
3. and Arjun Appadurai, "Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology," in Recapturing Anthropology, ed. Richard G. Fox (Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1991), pp. 191-210, rpt. in Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis, 1996), pp. 48-65
4. Compare Liisa Malkki, "National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees," Cultural Anthropology 7 (Feb. 1992): 24-44
5. For an interesting critique, see Reuven Y. Hazan, "Israel and the Consociational Model: Religion and Class in the Israeli Party System, from Consociationalism to Consensualism to Majoritarianism," in Party Elites in Divided Societies: Political Parties in Consociational Democracy, ed. Kurt Richard Luther and Kris Deschouwer (London, 1999), pp. 163-88
6. Patricia Yaeger, "Narrating Space," introduction to The Geography of Identity, ed. Yaeger (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1996), p. 10
7. See James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta, "Beyond 'Culture': Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference," Cultural Anthropology 7 (Feb. 1992): 6-23
8. See Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York, 1974)
9. Some of the works that explore the social aspects of golobalization are Jameson, "Nostalgia for the Present"; David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernily: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Oxford, 1989), esp. chap. 17
10. Eric R. Wolf, introduction to Europe and the People without History (Berkeley, 1982), pp. 3-24; and Appadurai, "Global Ethnoscapes."
11. See Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernily
12. Appadurai, "Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography," in The Geography of Identity, p. 49; hereafter abbreviated "S."
13. Yaeger, "Narrating Space," p. 11
14. See Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled, "Peace and Profits: The Globalization of Israeli Business and the Peace Process," The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization, ed. Shafir and Peled (Boulder, Colo., 2000), pp. 243-64
15. See Saskia Sassen, "Identity in the Global City: Economic and Cultural Encasements," in The Geography of Identity, pp. 131-51
16. See Sara M. Roy, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development (Washington, D.C., 1995)
17. See Wolf, Europe and the People without History
18. See, for example, Appadurai, "Global Ethnoscapes," and Michael Kearney, "Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire," Journal of Historical Sociology 4 (Mar. 1991): 52-74
19. See Anderson, Imagined Communities, and Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, N.Y.; 1983)
20. See Dan Rabinowitz, "The Palestinian Citizens of Israel, the Concept of Trapped Minority, and the Discourse of Transnationalism in Anthropology," Ethnic and Racial Studies 24 (Winter 2001)
21. See Amitav Ghosh, "The Diaspora in Indian Culture," Public Culture 2 (Fall 1989): 73-78
22. James Clifford, "Diasporas," Cultural Anthropology 9 (Aug. 1994): 302-38
23. and Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin, "Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity," Critical Inquiry 19 (Summer 1993): 693-725
24. See Ted Swedenburg, Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past (Minneapolis, 1995)
25. Such sentiments are reflected in Sharif Kanaana's account of intifada humor, which depicts Palestinian returnees, particularly from the United States, as hesitant and soft, and generally unwilling to take an active part in demonstrations against the Israeli occupation; see Sharif Kanaana, "Humor of the Palestinian Intifada," Journal of Folklore Research 27 (Sept.-Dec. 1990): 231-40
26. See Hillel Cohen, "Internal Refugeees amongst the Arabs in Israel, 1948-1996" (Hebrew) (M.A. thesis, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1996)
27. Harvey, The Condition of Postmodemity, pp. 305, 306