The Academic Question of Palestine

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ID12980221
AutoresWalaa Alqaisiya (0000-0003-1472-5187, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, University of Venice, Venice, Italy, autor correspondente), Nicola Perugini (0000-0002-5216-2170, University of Edinburgh)
Ano2024
Volume33
Fascículo3
Páginas299-311
Data de publicação2024-07-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMiddle East Critique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1943-6149 • E-ISSN: 1943-6157
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19436149.2024.2384009
OpenAlexW4401710973
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas2

This article provides theoretical and contextual background to The Academic Question of Palestine. Building on the work of Edward Said, we maintain that Palestine constitutes a unique question with special status in international academic spaces, particularly in the West, because of its entanglement with other imperial and settler colonial forms of dispossession. We argue that the special place that Zionism and its defence has occupied for decades in academia has rendered Palestine one of the thorniest and most divisive issues of our time. In the new millennium, the birth of the BDS movement; the emergence of new solidarities with global anti-racist movements; the scholarly and human rights consensus that Israel constitutes a regime settler colonial apartheid; the acceleration of Zionist violence, until the Gaza genocide, have generated new forms of repression and resistance in the academic space. This Special Issue offers the tools for understanding these recent transformations of the question of Palestine

Ancient history · Palestine · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society