Emplaced Resistances in Occupied Palestine: Stories of a Village, Its People, and Their Land

by Suzanne Hassan Hammad Research Associate, Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar, Richard A. Falk Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton Univer (Foreword by)

Overview

In this deeply personal study, Hammad illuminates a deep agenda of place, meaning, and resistance in territorial struggles through the telling of a less-heard story of how women, men, and young people understand their world and their lives in the occupied Palestinian West Bank landscape. Taking a case study of a contested and divided Palestinian village situated in the heart of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and known for its sustained, non-violent protest against the Separation Wall that cuts through its lived spaces, Hammad examines how villagers live, experience, interpret, and attempt to resist infringements on their property and person.

The study considers the spectrum of ways that people resist in this context, examining not only the overt weekly protests but also the everyday acts and subjectivities of resistance of its residents, young and old. It offers valuable theoretical insight into the extent and ways that meanings of place hold the potential to mediate, shape, and sustain resistance struggles through the voices and experiences of people. The backdrop of the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Palestinians’ struggle over space, place, and history—which continues to play out in the present—makes this book politically relevant and empowering as it brings voices from a secluded contested village to the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786612045
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/06/2023
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.28(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.96(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Hassan Hammad is a Palestinian sociologist and pracademic. She has worked extensively in the Arab region on applied social and policy research and projects within the social protection and inclusion, health, education, and humanitarian sectors. Suzanne is a research and evaluations consultant and has taught sociology courses as adjunct faculty at Northwestern University Qatar and Georgetown University Qatar.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Prologue. Back to the Present: 2022, the Naqba Continues…

Chapter 1. Retelling Stories of Dispossession and Resistance

Chapter 2. The Place: A Palestinian West Bank Village

Chapter 3. What Bil’in’s Spaces Meant: The Magnitude of What was Lost

Chapter 4. Encounters with the Barrier: Senses of Place in Flux

Chapter 5. Enter the Friday Protests: The Public Face of Resistance

Chapter 6. Holding On: Living and Doing Resistances Everyday

Chapter 7. ‘The Taste of Earth’: Meanings of Home, Place, and Resistance for Palestinians

Conclusion. The Potency of Emplaced Resistances

Epilogue. Headlines from Bil’in (2010- 2022)

Arabic Glossary

Bibliography

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Hammad's book gives voice to people of Bil'in and will resonate with readers interested in natives defending their land and livelihoods. The text leads to better understanding of how freedom will come despite incredible odds thanks to sumud, active resistance and resilience.

Mazin Qumsiyeh

At once scholarly and deeply personal, this highly readable book tells a story of how it feels to be at the receiving end of a colonial occupation. It is an intimate account of what people do when their community gets partitioned, lands taken away, and daily life disrupted. This is one of the best books I have read on the everyday of the Israeli colonization of the Palestinian lifeworld and resistance against it.

Asef Bayat