Law, Violence and Sovereignty Among West Bank Palestinians (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) [Hardcover]

Tobias Kelly (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521868068 | ISBN-13: 978-0521868068 | Publication Date: January 8, 2007

As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of Oslo in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taking a perspective that sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a conflict over the distribution of legal rights, it focuses on the daily concerns of West Bank Palestinians, and explores the meanings, limitations and potential of legal claims in the context of the region's structures of governance. Kelly argues that fundamental contradictions in the process through which the West Bank has been ruled and misruled have resulted in an unstable mixture of legality, fear and uncertainty. Based on long term ethnographic fieldwork, this book provides an insight into how the wider Middle East conflict manifests itself through the daily encounters of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, offering an evocative and theoretically informed account of the relationship between law, peace-building and violence.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Kelly's book is useful in a number of different ways. First, he offers an understanding of how the Oslo process has led, perhaps by historical accident, to an extremely complex legal situation that makes life difficult for all involved. He also sheds light on the ramifications of Israel's attempt to make its law apply, extraterritorially, to its settlements and settlers in the West Bank (and whose presence there is itself unlawful by international standards). IN addition, he nicely illustrates the challenges of daily existence in the West Bank--a Palestinian's need to work in a highly unstable context for lack of any alternatives."
- John Quigley, The Ohio State University, The Law and Politics Book Review

"...an insightful microanalysis of the intricacies and contradictions of law in the West Bank today....Kelly's book is rich, innovative, and well-grounded...the author shows beautifully how the reality of territorial integration, economic dependence, and legal fragmentation has created a situation in which collective rights, and the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict altogether, needs to be redefined."
Leila Farsakh, American Ethnologist

Book Description

As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of the Peace Process in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 218 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 8, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521868068
• ISBN-13: 978-0521868068
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,678,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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