{"product_id":"from-shared-life-to-co-resistance-in-historic-palestine-9781783489633","title":"From Shared Life to Co-Resistance in Historic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Jewish shared life cannot be ignored. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, shared a life in Ottoman Palestine and in a different way  during British rule. The attempt to eliminate native life involved the destruction of Arab society – its cultural hegemony and demographic superiority – but also the racial rejection of Arab-Jewish sociabilities, of shared life. Thus the settlerist process of dispossession of the Arabs was complemented with the destruction of the social and cultural infrastructure that made Arab-Jewish life a historical reality. Both operations formed Israeli polity. Can this understanding contribute to present-day Palestinian resistance and a politics of decolonisation? In this book, the authors address this question by exploring how the study of elimination of shared life can inform Arab-Jewish co-resistance as a way of defying Israel’s Zionist regime. Above and beyond opposing an unacceptable state of affairs, this book engages with past and present to discuss possible futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust when the settler colonial debate in Palestine seems to have been flooded, Marcelo Svisrsky and Ronnen Ben-Arie come out with a new interpretive twist on this historical discourse. Their book is a must read for those who have given up on the possibility of shared resistance in this troubled land. -- Salim Tamari, Editor of The Jerusalem Quarterly\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent and timely book. It recovers and describes historic Palestine's 'shared life', a kind of 'Middle Ground' that existed before the Zionist onslaught. But the book is not steeped in nostalgia, and its primary purpose is to contribute to crafting a decolonial future. -- Lorenzo Veracini, Associate Professor in History and Politics, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface, Dr Raef Zreik \/ 1. Formulating the Problem\/ 2. Shared life in Palestine\/ 3. Rewriting the Settler Colonial Paradigm\/ 4. After 1948\/ 5. Co-Resistance\/ Afterword\/ Bibliography\/ Index","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042306621783,"sku":"9781783489633","price":107.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783489633.jpg?v=1750953851","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-shared-life-to-co-resistance-in-historic-palestine-9781783489633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}