Solidarity Intervention
An ethnography of nonviolent transnational contention in the West Bank
All across the globe, individuals mobilize international support in defense of Palestinian rights and a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, these international activists are neither the beneficiaries of their efforts nor do they closely identify with the Palestinian population. Through an ethnographic analysis of social movement organizations and international activists active in the West Bank, this paper tries to understand the emergence of transnational collective action...
Note de l’éditeur
Cover photo A foreign protester holds a Palestinian flag as he stands facing two Israeli soldiers in Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, on July 2, 2010. The demonstration, organised by Palestinians as well as foreign and leftwing Israeli peace activists, was directed against the expropriation of Palestinian land to expand the nearby Jewish settlement of Halmish in the occupied West Bank. AFP / ABBAS MOMANI.
Éditeur : Graduate Institute Publications
Lieu d’édition : Genève
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 16 décembre 2013
ISBN numérique : 978-2-940503-40-7
DOI : 10.4000/books.iheid.776
Collection : eCahiers de l’Institut | 22
Année d’édition : 2013
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-940503-39-1
All across the globe, individuals mobilize international support in defense of Palestinian rights and a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, these international activists are neither the beneficiaries of their efforts nor do they closely identify with the Palestinian population. Through an ethnographic analysis of social movement organizations and international activists active in the West Bank, this paper tries to understand the emergence of transnational collective action fighting for Palestinian rights since the second Intifada. To do so, this paper addresses structural as well as personal factors behind activists’ mobilization. Combining elements from social movement theory and Bourdieusian sociology, I conduct a meso-level inquiry of the principal solidarity organizations alongside a micro-level investigation of international volunteers participating in such organizational structures. Highlighting the specificity of transnational activism in the West Bank both in terms of opportunity structures and the lived experiences of international activists, I have tried to provide insight on how and why the Palestinian rights movement is able to gather so much international support.
Monique Jo Beerli holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute, Geneva. She is currently pursuing a double degree PhD in Political Science and International Relations at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Geneva, working as a Bachelor’s-level teaching assistant at the latter. Her current research interests include critical studies of international aid agencies, international political sociology, and critical security studies.
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