Description
Book SynopsisThis title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the US in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of that movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? These key questions and others are answered in this essential short book. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the US as well as Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement's implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization and neoliberal capitalism.
Trade Review"The volume holds an important space in the larger archive of scholarship and activism for Palestine, as well as Palestine studies more broadly." * Journal of Palestine Studies *
Table of ContentsOverview
Introduction
1. Boycott as Tactic
Here and There 2. The Academic Boycott Movement
3. Backlash
The Boycott and the Culture/Race Wars 4. Academic Abolitionism
Boycott as Decolonization Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
