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Dwelling in Conflict: Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging
Emily McKee
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Description for Dwelling in Conflict: Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging
Paperback. This book examines the formation, entrenchment, and sociopolitical consequences of land conflict in the Negev region of Israel as it has become defined along ethnic lines. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JHMC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 390.
Land disputes in Israel are most commonly described as stand-offs between distinct groups of Arabs and Jews. In Israel's southern region, the Negev, Jewish and Bedouin Arab citizens and governmental bodies contest access to land for farming, homes, and industry and struggle over the status of unrecognized Bedouin villages. Natural, immutable divisions, both in space and between people, are too frequently assumed within these struggles. Dwelling in Conflict offers the first study of land conflict and environment based on extensive fieldwork within both Arab and Jewish settings. It explores planned towns for Jews and for Bedouin Arabs, unrecognized villages, and single-family farmsteads, as well as Knesset hearings, media coverage, and activist projects. Emily McKee sensitively portrays the impact that dividing lines-both physical and social-have on residents. She investigates the political charge of people's everyday interactions with their environments and the ways in which basic understandings of people and their landscapes drive political developments. While recognizing deep divisions, McKee also takes seriously the social projects that residents engage in to soften and challenge socio-environmental boundaries. Ultimately, Dwelling in Conflict highlights opportunities for boundary crossings, revealing both contemporary segregation and the possible mutability of these dividing lines in the future.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804798303
SKU
V9780804798303
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99-1
About Emily McKee
Emily McKee is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department and the Institute for the Study of Environment, Sustainability, and Energy at Northern Illinois University.
Reviews for Dwelling in Conflict: Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging
Rarely does an ethnography simultaneously provoke intellectual and theoretical engagement, invite a carefully balanced rethinking of an aforethought intractable conflict, and contain such beautifully crafted prose as to inspire furious page-turning...[R]eaders come away from Dwelling in Conflict with a nuanced appreciation of how day-to-day interactions among Bedouin Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel are filtered through the lenses of history, narrative, memory, stigma, pride, family and heritage, agency and strategy, violence and suffering, and embodied understandings of material environments.
Tanya J. King
Human Ecology
Dwelling in Conflict is a rare book. Few could have written about this fraught place with such detail, balance, and sophistication. Emily McKee beautifully reveals the underlying environmental imaginaries and discourses-among both Jews and Bedouin- and shows the potential for more environmentally friendly policies and more peaceful, just relations in the Negev.
Diana K. Davis
University of California, Davis
Emily McKee's study of land issues in the Negev is a highly rewarding read. Her keen ethnographic eye reveals a parallel existence: Bedouins morphing from agropastoralists to the marginalized poor, living alongside Israeli settlers conditioned to view the natural environment, complete with its Orientalized others, as a frontier battlefront. The result is an engaging and cohering account of the Israeli-Arab conflict from a perspective seldom utilized before.
Dan Rabinowitz
Tel-Aviv University
McKee's well-written, readable book attends to the Bedouin voice from below and the way it expresses both historical and contemporary connection to place...[S]he conducts a sensitive analysis of how the Bedouins have been constructed within the Zionist perspective as the ultimate Other...Dwelling in Conflict invites readers to understand Israeli Jewish-Arab relations as constructed in conditions of inequality, segregation and separation.
Safa Aburabia, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review
Tanya J. King
Human Ecology
Dwelling in Conflict is a rare book. Few could have written about this fraught place with such detail, balance, and sophistication. Emily McKee beautifully reveals the underlying environmental imaginaries and discourses-among both Jews and Bedouin- and shows the potential for more environmentally friendly policies and more peaceful, just relations in the Negev.
Diana K. Davis
University of California, Davis
Emily McKee's study of land issues in the Negev is a highly rewarding read. Her keen ethnographic eye reveals a parallel existence: Bedouins morphing from agropastoralists to the marginalized poor, living alongside Israeli settlers conditioned to view the natural environment, complete with its Orientalized others, as a frontier battlefront. The result is an engaging and cohering account of the Israeli-Arab conflict from a perspective seldom utilized before.
Dan Rabinowitz
Tel-Aviv University
McKee's well-written, readable book attends to the Bedouin voice from below and the way it expresses both historical and contemporary connection to place...[S]he conducts a sensitive analysis of how the Bedouins have been constructed within the Zionist perspective as the ultimate Other...Dwelling in Conflict invites readers to understand Israeli Jewish-Arab relations as constructed in conditions of inequality, segregation and separation.
Safa Aburabia, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review