The Civil Intifada
1 The Power and Politics of the Palestinian Census
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4874913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karin Gwinn Wilkins (0000-0002-7895-7967, International Communication Association, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 891-908 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2004.00385.x |
| OpenAlex | W2037860807 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
The Palestinian census of December 1997 holds both symbolic power, grounding a national identity within an intended modern, sovereign structure, and instrumental value, serving as a basis for social and economic development. Some scholars privilege the role of domination in this enumeration process, imposing official categorizations on people for the purpose of state control. However, in this article I argue that the census also has the potential to promote resistance, contingent upon the nature of the agency implementing the process and the historical circumstances of the community engaged in this exercise. In this case, Palestinian and Israeli governments compete over the parameters of this research implementation, particularly within the confines of Jerusalem, recognized by each as its (intended and existing) capital. Based on personal interviews, official documents and secondary sources, I describe this process in relation to other attempts to articulate a Palestinian community, and characterize the census within the context of a Palestinian political struggle for sovereignty against a dominant Israeli state
Agency (philosophy) · Census · Context (archaeology) · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Privilege (computing) · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Turkey's Politics and Society
The American Census
Modernity at large
America's Egypt
Development Theory
Palestinian Identity
Constructing Palestine through Surveillance Practices
Numbered Voices
Palestine and the Palestinians
Shifting frames of the Palestinian movement in US news
Imagined communities
On national identity
Who Counts? The politics of censustaking
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2020 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |