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Book SynopsisTerritorial borders, identity borders, and many other kinds of social and cultural borders are constantly questioned in the Israel-Palestine debate. In Reapproaching Borders, a new generation of scholars explore the concept of borders and how they are imagined and actualized in this deeply contested land.
Trade ReviewThis collection brings together exciting new work by a group of innovative younger scholars who are at the cutting edge of research on the modern history of Palestine, Israel and Zionism. Their explorations of how territorial and ethnic as well as intellectual boundaries in a variety of domains have been constructed and maintained—but also frequently crossed—help open up promising new ways of thinking about Arab-Jewish relations and interactions. -- Zachary Lockman, Professor of Modern Middle East history, New York University
An intreguing reading of the memoirs of an Arabic-speaking Jewish businessman....This book should be of interest to anyone interested in the history and politics of Israel-Palestine, as well as broader audiences concerned with sociology of law and medicine, space, architecture and conflict, states, and gender. * Journal of Palestine Studies *
This is an exciting cross-disciplinary look at the intersecting Israeli-Palestinian communities over time. The organizing metaphor of shifting and porous borders is an excellent way to unify this new research. -- Michelle Mart, associate professor of history, Pennsylvania State University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Investigating Borders in the case of Palestine/Israel Part 2 Narrating the Past Chapter 3 Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel Chapter 4 Remembering Jewish-Arab Contact and Conflict Chapter 5 Re-Approaching the Borders of Nazareth (1948-1956): Israel's Control of an all-Arab City Part 6 Constructing Healthy Identities and Landscapes Chapter 7 Defining National Medical Borders: Medical Terminology and the Making of Hebrew Medicine Chapter 8 Contested Bodies: Medicine, Public Health, and the Mass Immigration to Israel Chapter 9 Seeing the "Holy Land" with New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body Chapter 10 Masculinity as a Relational Mode: Palestinian Working-class Gender Ideologies and Categorical Boundaries in a Jewish-Palestinian Mixed Town Chapter 11 From Water Abundance to Water Scarcity (1936-1959): A 'fluid' history of Jewish subjectivity in Historic Palestine and Israel Part 12 Shaping Citizens and Space in Palestine/Israel Chapter 13 Seizing Locality in Jerusalem Chapter 14 Present and Absent: Historical Invention and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Jerusalem Chapter 15 Framing the Borders of Justice: Shari'a Courts in Israel and the Conflict Between Secular Ideology and Islamic Law Chapter 16 Modernity and its Mirror: Three Views of Jewish-Palestinian Interaction in Jaffa and Tel Aviv Chapter 17 Concluding Remarks
