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The History and Politics of the Bedouin - Reimagining Nomadism in Modern Palestine (Hardcover)
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The History and Politics of the Bedouin - Reimagining Nomadism in Modern Palestine (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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This book examines contending visions on nomadism in modern
Palestine, with a special focus on the British Mandate period.
Extending from the late Ottoman period to the founding of the State
of Israel, it highlights both ruptures and continuities with the
Ottoman past and the Israeli present, to prove that nomadism was
not invented by the British or the Zionists, but is the shared
legacy of Ottoman, British, Zionist, Palestinian, and most
recently, Israeli attitudes to the Bedouin of Palestine. Drawing on
primary sources in Arabic and Hebrew, the book shows how native
conceptions of nomadism have been reconstructed by colonial and
national elites into new legal taxonomies rooted in modern European
theories and praxis. By undertaking a comparative approach, it
maintains that the introduction of these taxonomies transformed not
only native Palestinian perceptions of nomadism, but perceptions
that characterized early Zionist literature. The book breaks away
from the Arab/Jewish duality by offering a comparative and
relational study of the main forces operating under the Mandate:
British colonialism, Labor Zionism, and Arab nationalism. Special
attention is paid to the British side, which covers the first three
chapters. Each chapter represents a formative stage of British
colonial enterprise in Palestine, extending from the late Ottoman
down to the postwar and the Mandate periods. A major theme is the
nexus of race and ethnography reshaping British perceptions of the
Bedouin of Palestine before and during the early phases of the
Mandate, and the ways these perceptions guided the administrative
division of the country along newly demarcated racial boundaries.
Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines new findings in
the fields of history, ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, and
environmental studies, this book contributes to understandings of
the Israel/ Palestine conflict, and current trends of displacement
in the Middle East.
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