De/Colonising Palestine

Contents

Foreword 
About the Artworks in this Book 

The 'Palestine Question' Today: An Introduction
Riccardo Bocco and Ibrahim Saïd 

Section One: Debating Palestine and the Settler Colonial Regime

Chapter One
Profit over Palestine: Cronyism, Monopolies, and Patronage
Tariq Dana and Rami Salameh 

Chapter Two
Three Decades and Counting: Assessing the Oslo Accords through a Security Lens
Alaa Tartir 

Chapter Three
Israel's Regime of (no)Torture: Legality, Impunity, and the Never-Ending Threat
Basil Farraj 

Chapter Four
The Israeli Annexation of The Jordan Valley: Exploring a History of Settler-Colonial Expansion
Atwa Jaber 

Chapter Five
Suffrage Rights in a Settler Colony: 1948 Palestinians Between Loss of Sovereignty and Sumud 
Ibrahim Saïd 

Section Two: Hydropolitics and Environmental Policies

Chapter Six
The Fluid Spatial Dimensions of Israel’s Settler
Colonisation of Palestine: Hydropolitics in Wādī Fūkīn
Anita De Donato 

Chapter Seven
The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Military Occupation: An International Humanitarian Law Perspective
Mais Qandeel 

Chapter Eight
Decarbonising Palestine: Politics of Nature and Weather Relations in Local Historical Farming Knowledge
Mauro Van Aken 

Section Three: Refugees and Diaspora

Chapter Nine
The Actuality of the Palestinian Refugee Question: An International Law Perspective
Francesca P. Albanese and Lex Takkenberg 

Chapter Ten
UNRWA at the Crossroads of Humanitarian, Development, and Political Claims
Jalal Al Husseini 

Chapter Eleven
'We Want to Live in Dignity, to Return’: Palestinian NGOs and the Symbolic Representation of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Sergio Bianchi 

Chapter Twelve
Ordinary Agents: Palestinian Refugees as Providers of Care, Education, and Protection During the Syrian War
Nell Gabiam

Chapter Thirteen
The Palestinian Community in Chile: Distant in Time and Space, Yet Politically Close to Palestine
Nadia Silhi-Chahin 

Section Four: Cultural Resistances

Chapter Fourteen
The Parachute Paradox | Decolonizing the Imagination
Steve Sabella 

Chapter Fifteen
The Catastrophe: Al-Nakba in Palestinian Fiction
Wasim Dahmash 

Chapter Sixteen
Filming Palestinian Graffiti, Engaging Science: Sharing Power and Authority on Knowledge Production
Tamara Abu Laban and Clémence Lehec 

Chapter Seventeen
Reconnecting Intellectual Production and Activism: A Palestinian History
Mjriam Abu Samra and Luigi Achilli 

Section Five: Activism, Solidarity and the Struggle for Palestinian Rights

Chapter Eighteen
‘In Gaza, there is no Tomorrow’: Youth Participation in Gaza’s Great March of Return
Caitlin Procter 

Chapter Nineteen
Theory and Practice: Palestinian Youth Engagement in Frameworks of Struggle
Loubna Qutami, Omar Zahzah, Ramah Awad, Nadya Tannous and Celine Qussiny 

Chapter Twenty
Reading Alana Lentin: Race, Revenge, and the Figure of the Palestinian in Contemporary Germany
Anna-Esther Younes 

Chapter Twenty-One
A Political Analysis of the BDS Campaign in Switzerland (2010-2020)
Birgit Althaler, Jorge Gajardo, Mary Honderich, Anne Spagnoli and Roman Vonwill 

Chapter Twenty-Two
The BDS Movement in the United Kingdom: Back to Where it All Started
Ilan Pappe 

Chapter Twenty-Three
What Does the Boycott Tell Us About Democracy?
Amro Sadeldeen 

Chapter Twenty-Four
Solidarities from Within the Zionist System: Assessing Present-day
Israeli Activism for Palestinian Rights
Alice Baroni 

Post-script

When Palestine Becomes a Source for Global Theory
Benoit Challand 

List of Contributors