{"product_id":"the-palestinian-prisoners-movement-9780367749446","title":"The Palestinian Prisoners Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a contemporary history of the Palestinian prisoners movement, this book illustrates the centrality of the movement in the broader Palestinian national struggle. Based on direct interviews with former prisoners and former security sector personnel, it offers new insights into the strategies that prisoners employed to gain rights over time, as well as the tactics used by prison authorities to maintain control. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrisons have functioned as microcosms of the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades, with the Israeli state aiming to use mass incarceration for security, and Palestinian prisoners seeking to take back the prison space for organizing and resistance. Prisoners' actions included but were not limited to hunger strikes, as prisoners often relied more on everyday acts of noncompliance and developing an internal counterorder to challenge authorities. The volume demonstrates how the Palestinian prisoners movement was intertwined with the Palestinian na\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rigorous, humane, and brave. This ‘history of the present’ illuminates Palestinian resistance in prison in both everyday and more confrontational forms, and how prison resistance has related to the national movement over time. This volume is invaluable especially because it asks us to listen to former Palestinian prisoners themselves. It is an important and powerful read for journalists, policy makers, activists, students, and scholars concerned with Palestinians living under military occupation and (beyond Palestine) with ways of living and struggling in prison.\" — \u003cb\u003eAmahl Bishara,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTufts University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In situating first-hand prisoner accounts alongside historical analysis, Norman affirms the crucial role the Palestinian Prisoner movement assume within the broad spectrum of Palestinian resistance. This detailed and engaging analysis is an important and timely contribution to the broader field of political resistance to incarceration.\" — \u003cb\u003eBrendan Browne, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrinity College Dublin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Julie Norman’s outstanding study uses testimony from Palestinian political prisoners themselves to explore the \"counterorder\" they construct within Israeli prisons and how this is linked to the broader dynamics of the nationalist movement. It is at once both sensitive and insightful, with much to offer scholars of Palestinian politics, prison activism, and popular mobilization.\" — \u003cb\u003eRex Brynen,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMcGill University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Using concepts from the literature on social movement and nonviolent resistance, Julie Norman, in superb narrative fashion, explores the relationship between the prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian national movement. Tracing changes in the prisons—and the prisoners’ efforts—over time, Norman captures the human agency of Palestinians caught in the crossfires of the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\" — \u003cb\u003eMaia Carter Hallward, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKennesaw State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In fascinating detail, Julie Norman explores the evolution of the Palestinian prisoner movement. Collective resistance, hunger-strikes, education, and mobilisation beyond the prisons all speak to the central role of the prisons in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book is a must read for those who care about the Middle East and political imprisonment in general. An impressive achievement.\" — \u003cb\u003eKieran McEvoy,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eQueens University Belfast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction 2. Imprisonment, Detention, and the Legal System 3. Resistance through Organizing: The Counterorder 4. Resistance through Actions: Hunger Strikes and Civil Disobedience 5. Palestinian Politics and Shifts after Oslo 6. Diffusion of Activism 7. Security and the State 8. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018055188823,"sku":"9780367749446","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367749446.jpg?v=1750775489","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-palestinian-prisoners-movement-9780367749446","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}