Are Knudsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5083466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Are Knudsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Are |
| FAMILY NAME | Knudsen |
| SIGNATURE | KNUDSEN A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Popular Protest in the New Middle East: Islamism and Post-Islamist Politics
“In the wake of the protests that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, Islamist movements of varying political persuasions have risen to prominence. This is especially the case in post-Mubarak Egypt and post-Ben Ali Tunisia. Popular Protest in the New Middle East examines Islamist approaches to political participation and integration in the Arab world and asks whether regional trends can be discerned wit…
Logging the ‘Frontier’: Narratives of Deforestation in the Northern Borderlands of British India, c. 1850–1940
This article analyses the institution of ‘scientific forestry’ in the northern borderlands (‘Frontier’) of British India c. 1850–1940. Using archival material from the India Office Records (IOR), it traces the extension of colonial forest policies from the plains to the inaccessible parts of the Indus River and its tributaries. The article demonstrates that ‘scientific forestry’ was an early conservation narrative claiming to preserve forest – bu…
Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant
Introduction Are Knudsen and Sari Hanafi Part I: Space, Governance and Locality 1. Cartographic Violence, Displacement and Refugee Camps: Palestine and Iraq Julie Peteet 2. Governing the Palestinian Refugees Camps in Lebanon and Syria: The Cases of Nahr El-Bared and Yarmouk Camps Sari Hanafi 3. Palestinian Camp Refugee Identifications: A New Look at the and the National Rosemary Sayigh Part II: Urbanisation, Place and Politics 4. Palestinian Refu…
Acquiescence to Assassinations in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war to peace (1989–91), and peaked after the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. From 1989 to the present, 35 major attacks killed and maimed politicians and journalists in addition to innocent bystanders. No Middle Eastern country has such a grim record of political assassina…
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a war of attrition against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. There has been less concern with Islamism among the Palestinian refugees dispersed in Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The article outlines the sourc…
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas enigma
This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most\nimportant of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The\npaper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a\nfringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist movement\nand mouthpiece for dispossessed Palestinians. Since 2001,\nHamas’s leadership has come under increasing attack from\nIsrael, killing a number of the movement’s leaders and senior\nmembers, most prominently Sheikh …
Fragile Mountains—Fragile People? Understanding “Fragility” in the Himalayas: Report on a Workshop in Norway
This article was first published in Research and Development (MRD), vol 24 no 2, pp 174-175. The rights of reproduction remain with the co-copyright holders: The International Mountain Society (IMS) and the United Nations University (UNU), c/o MRD Editorial Office, Bern, Switzerland (www.mrd-journal.org)
Mennesket og kulturen
Tor Aase, red: Tournaments of Power: Honor and Revenge in the Contemporary World
Acquiescence to Assassinations in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war to peace (1989–91), and peaked after the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. From 1989 to the present, 35 major attacks killed and maimed politicians and journalists in addition to innocent bystanders. No Middle Eastern country has such a grim record of political assassina…
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a war of attrition against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. There has been less concern with Islamism among the Palestinian refugees dispersed in Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The article outlines the sourc…
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas enigma
This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most\nimportant of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The\npaper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a\nfringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist movement\nand mouthpiece for dispossessed Palestinians. Since 2001,\nHamas’s leadership has come under increasing attack from\nIsrael, killing a number of the movement’s leaders and senior\nmembers, most prominently Sheikh …
Tor Aase, red: Tournaments of Power: Honor and Revenge in the Contemporary World
Fragile Mountains—Fragile People? Understanding “Fragility” in the Himalayas: Report on a Workshop in Norway
This article was first published in Research and Development (MRD), vol 24 no 2, pp 174-175. The rights of reproduction remain with the co-copyright holders: The International Mountain Society (IMS) and the United Nations University (UNU), c/o MRD Editorial Office, Bern, Switzerland (www.mrd-journal.org)
Mennesket og kulturen
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a war of attrition against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. There has been less concern with Islamism among the Palestinian refugees dispersed in Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The article outlines the sourc…
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas enigma
This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most\nimportant of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The\npaper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a\nfringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist movement\nand mouthpiece for dispossessed Palestinians. Since 2001,\nHamas’s leadership has come under increasing attack from\nIsrael, killing a number of the movement’s leaders and senior\nmembers, most prominently Sheikh …
Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant
Introduction Are Knudsen and Sari Hanafi Part I: Space, Governance and Locality 1. Cartographic Violence, Displacement and Refugee Camps: Palestine and Iraq Julie Peteet 2. Governing the Palestinian Refugees Camps in Lebanon and Syria: The Cases of Nahr El-Bared and Yarmouk Camps Sari Hanafi 3. Palestinian Camp Refugee Identifications: A New Look at the and the National Rosemary Sayigh Part II: Urbanisation, Place and Politics 4. Palestinian Refu…
Acquiescence to Assassinations in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war to peace (1989–91), and peaked after the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. From 1989 to the present, 35 major attacks killed and maimed politicians and journalists in addition to innocent bystanders. No Middle Eastern country has such a grim record of political assassina…
Logging the ‘Frontier’: Narratives of Deforestation in the Northern Borderlands of British India, c. 1850–1940
This article analyses the institution of ‘scientific forestry’ in the northern borderlands (‘Frontier’) of British India c. 1850–1940. Using archival material from the India Office Records (IOR), it traces the extension of colonial forest policies from the plains to the inaccessible parts of the Indus River and its tributaries. The article demonstrates that ‘scientific forestry’ was an early conservation narrative claiming to preserve forest – bu…
Popular Protest in the New Middle East: Islamism and Post-Islamist Politics
“In the wake of the protests that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, Islamist movements of varying political persuasions have risen to prominence. This is especially the case in post-Mubarak Egypt and post-Ben Ali Tunisia. Popular Protest in the New Middle East examines Islamist approaches to political participation and integration in the Arab world and asks whether regional trends can be discerned wit…
Political science (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Law (3 works)