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The Untold Story of the Golan Heights - Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani Resistance (Paperback)
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The Untold Story of the Golan Heights - Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani Resistance (Paperback)
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In 1967 Israel occupied the western section of Syria's Golan
Heights, expelling 130,000 residents and leaving only a few
thousand Arab inhabitants clustered in several villages. Sometimes
characterised as the 'forgotten occupation', the western Golan
Heights have been transformed by Israeli colonisation, including
the appropriation of land and water resources, economic development
and extensive military use. This landmark volume is the first
academic study in English of Arab politics and culture in the
occupied Golan Heights. It focuses on an indigenous community,
known as the Jawlanis, and their experience of everyday
colonisation and resistance to settler colonisation. Chapters cover
how governance is carried out in the Golan, from Israel's use of
the education system and collective memory, to its development of
large-scale wind turbines which are now a symbol of Israeli
encroachment. To illustrate the ways in which the current regime of
Israeli rule has been contested, there are chapters on the
six-month strike of 1982, youth mobilisation in the occupied Golan,
Palestinian solidarity movements, and the creation of Jawlani art
and writing as an act of resistance. Rich in ethnographic detail
and with chapters from diverse disciplines, the book is unique in
bringing together Jawlani, Palestinian and UK researchers. The
innovative format - with shorter 'reflections' from young Arab
researchers, activists and lawyers that respond to more traditional
academic chapters - establishes a bold new 'de-colonial' approach.
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