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Book SynopsisFar from integration into the Israeli incorporation regime, Palestinians inside the state are today placed in a paradoxical situation where, as Arab citizens of a Jewish state, they are both inside and outside, host and guest, citizen and stateless. Through the paradigm of stateless citizenship, Shourideh C. Molavi examines the dynamics of exclusion of Palestinian citizens and analytically frames the mechanisms through which their statelessness is maintained. With this she centres our analytical gaze on the paradox that it is through the actual provision of Israeli citizenship that Palestinians are deemed stateless. Molavi critically engages with the liberal variant of Zionist thought, and deconstructs discourse around minority rights and liberal citizenship in the context of Israel's racialized ideological and political makeup.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Liberal Citizenship: Ambiguities and Inconsistencies Framing citizenship Theorizing citizenship Citizenship beyond the state Problematizing legal categorizations Racial state, racialized citizenship 2. The Israeli Incorporation Regime Colonizing the land of milk and honey A multifaceted discrimination Legislative level Formal and declarative levels Structural and institutional levels Mass protests of October 2000 Acre Riots of 2008 The 2008-2009 War on Gaza Criminalizing Arab Political Participation and Discourse Targeting Arab MKs: From Bishara to Zoabi Arab civil society: A non-state alternative Response to the rise of Arab civil society: The case of Ameer Makhoul Operative and budgetary level Israeli apartheid: Beyond South Africa 3. Israeli Hostipitality From hospitality to Derridean ‘hostipitality’ Oscillating between host and guest Israeli ‘hostipitality’ 4. Liberal Pretence of a Jewish State The UN Partition Plan of 1947 The principle of ‘two states for two peoples’ Israel as a ‘state for all of its citizens’ Rashid Bey: The de-Palestinianized Arab Zionist democracy in a comparative context Israeli demographobia Liberal rubber stamp for Israeli crimes 5. From Citizenship to Stateless Citizenship ‘Israeli’ and ‘Palestinian’ as incomplete identities Defining the ‘Israeli’ nation Research on Palestinians in Israel: An Overview Formulating Palestinian citizenship – Stateless citizenship 6. The Anatomy of Stateless Citizenship Knowing the terrain: From the exception to the example An exclusive inclusion A perpetual state of emergency Coexistence without existence Conclusion Appendix I: Selections from The Democratic Constitution by Adalah: Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (20 March 2007) Appendix II: Selections from The Haifa Declaration by Mada al-Carmel: The Arab Center for Applied Social Research (15 May 2007) References Index

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Book SynopsisCitizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia redirects the largely western-oriented study of citizenship to postcolonial states. Providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens interpret and realize the recognition of their property, identity, security and welfare in the context of a weak rule of law and clientelistic politics, this study highlights the importance of studying citizenship for understanding democratization processes in Southeast Asia. With case studies from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Cambodia, this book provides a unique bottom-up perspective on the character of public life in Southeast Asia. Contributors are: Mary Austin, Laurens Bakker, Ward Berenschot, Sheri Lynn Gibbings, Takeshi Ito, David Kloos, Merlyna Lim, Astrid Norén-Nilsson, Oona Pardedes, Emma Porio, Apichat Satitniramai, Wolfram Schaffer and Henk Schulte Nordholt.Trade Review"The international debate over the democratizing effects of citizenship especially in postcolonial societies is gathering strength. Social movements from Asia and Africa to Latin America and Middle East have successfully challenged postcolonial authoritarian regimes and began democratizing political citizenship though not without variations or paradoxes. This book on democratizing citizenship in Southeast Asia is a brilliant and original contribution that walks the reader through these paradoxes. It not only contributes to citizenship studies in general but also in postcolonial societies with a sharp focus on Southeast Asia." – Engin Isin, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsAbout the Authors List of Illustrations 1. Introduction: Citizenship and Democratization in Postcolonial Southeast Asia, Ward Berenschot, Henk Schulte Nordholt and Laurens Bakker Part I: Clientelism and Citizenship 2. Citizen Participation and Decentralization in the Philippines, Emma Porio 3. Everyday Citizenship in Village Java, Takeshi Ito 4. Elections and Emerging Forms of Citizenship in Cambodia, Astrid Norén-Nilsson 5. Sosialisasi, Citizenship and Street Vendors in Yogyakarta, Sheri Lynn Gibbings Part II: Identity and Citizenship 6. Militias, Security and Citizenship in Indonesia, Laurens Bakker 7. Custom and Citizenship in the Philippine Uplands, Oona Thommes Paredes 8. Citizenship and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia, David Kloos and Ward Berenschot Part III: Middle Classes Engaging the State 9. Digital Media and Malaysia’s Electoral Reform Movement, Merlyna Lim 10. Citizenship, Rights and Adversarial Legalism in Thailand, Wolfram Schaffar 11. Defending Indonesia’s Migrant Domestic Workers, Mary Austin 12. The Yellow Shirts versus the Red Shirts and the Rise of a New Middle Class in Thailand, Apichat Satitniramai

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Book SynopsisThe Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World argues that the present crisis of the Arab world has its origins in the historical, legal and political development of state-citizen relations since the beginning of modern history in the Middle East and North Africa. The anthology covers three main topics. Part I focuses on the crisis of the social pact in different Arab countries as it became manifest during the Arab Uprisings. Part II concentrates on concepts of citizenship in Islamic doctrine, Islamic movements (Muslim Brotherhood and Salafism), secular political movements and Arab thinkers. Part III looks into the practices that support the claims to equal rights as well as the factors that have obstructed full citizen rights, such as patronage and clientelism. Contributors are: Ida Almestad, Claire Beaugrand, Assia Boutaleb, Michaelle Browers, Nils Butenschøn, Anthony Gorman, Raymond Hinnebusch, Engin F. Isin, Rania Maktabi, Roel Meijer, Emin Poljarevic, Ola Rifai, James Sater, Rachel Scott, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Robert Springborg, Stig Stenslie, Morten Valbjørn, Knut S. Vikør and Sami Zemni.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Roel Meijer and Nils Butenschøn PART I - THE ARAB SOCIAL PACT 1. Anthony Gorman, The British Legacy in the Middle East 2. Roel Meijer, Citizenship, Social Pacts, Rulings Bargains, and the Arab Uprising 3. Raymond Hinnebusch and Ola Rifai, Syria: Identity, State Formation, and Citizenship 4. Sami Zemni, The Tunisian Revolution and the Question of Citizenship 5. James Sater, Patronage and Democratic Citizenship in Morocco 6. Morten Valbjørn, Like But Not the Same As---- Arab Citizenship and the Jordanian Experience 7. Stig Stenslie and Ida Almestad, Social Contract in the Al Saud Monarchy: From Subjects to Citizens? 8. James Sater, Migration and the Marginality of Citizenship in the Arab Gulf Region: Human Security and High Modernist Tendencies 9. Nils Butenschøn, Arab Spring and the “Iron Triangle”: Regime Survival and Conditions of Citizenship in the Arab Middle East PART II - CONCEPTS OF CITIZENSHIP 10. Knut S. Vikør, Muslim Subjects and the Rights of God 11. Michaelle Browers, The Struggle for Equality and Citizenship in Arab Political Thought: Ideological Debates and Conceptual Change 12. Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Brothers and Citizens: The Second Wave of Institutional Thinking and the Concept of Citizenship 13. Emin Poljarevic, Ambiguity of Citizenship in Contemporary Salafism 14. Rachel Scott, Citizenship, Public Order and State Sovereignty: Article 3 of the Egyptian Constitution and the ‘Divinely Revealed Religions’ PART III - PRACTICES OF CITIZENSHIP 15. Robert Springborg, Effects of Patronage Systems and Clientelism on Citizenship in the Middle East 16. Rania Maktabi, Female Citizenship and the Franchise in Kuwait after 2005 17. Assia Boutaleb, Arab Youth: Evolving Participation and Acts of Citizenship 18. Claire Beaugrand, The bidun Protest Movement in Kuwait: Acts of Resistance or Acts of Citizenship? 19. Engin F. Isin, Citizenship Studies and the Middle East

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Trade Review"The authors argue that queer, black, brown, and foreign bodies, and the so-called threats they represent, such as immigration reform and same-sex marriage, have been effectively linked with terrorism. These awful conflations … are enduring and help to explain the contradictions of contemporary U.S. politics. We are far from a post post-9/11 world." – Ronald R. Sundstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of San Francisco "If you want to understand how a new biopolitics of citizenship is containing bodies of the nation by re-inscribing sex and race into it and how this new biopolitics is being resisted you must read this book." – Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsWilliam C. Gay: Editorial Foreword Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo: Preface Introduction G. W. Bush Administration Narratives of Threat and Containment Same-Sex Marriage as “Domestic Terrorism” Bodies that Resisted Containment The Merger of Immigration, Citizenship, and Same-Sex Marriage Constructions of Threat and the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign Threatening Bodies in the Age of Obama Conclusion Works Cited About the Authors Index

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