Reapproaching Borders : New Perspectives On The Study Of Israel-Palestine

Introduction: Investigating Borders In The Case Of Palestine/Israel

Narrating The Past

Filling A Gap In The Chronology: What Archaeology Is Revealing About The Ottoman Past In Israel
Uzi Baram
Remembering Jewish-Arab Contact And Conflict
Michelle Campos
Re-Approaching The Borders Of Nazareth (1948-1956): Israel’s Control Of An All-Arab City
Geremy Forman

Constructing Healthy Identities And Landscapes

Defining National Medical Borders: Medical Terminology And The Making Of Hebrew Medicine
Sandy Sufian
Contested Bodies: Medicine, Public Health, And The Mass Immigration To Israel
Nadav Davidovitch, Rhona Seidelman And Shifra Shvarts
Seeing The “Holy Land” With New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, And The Fluctuating Borders Of The Israeli National Body
Sarah S. Willen
Masculinity As A Relational Mode: Palestinian Working-class Gender Ideologies And Categorical Boundaries In A Jewish-Palestinian Mixed Town
Daniel Monterescu
From Water Abundance To Water Scarcity (1936-1959): A ‘fluid’ History Of Jewish Subjectivity In Historic Palestine And Israel
Samer Alatout

Shaping Citizens And Space In Palestine/Israel

Seizing Locality In Jerusalem
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Present And Absent: Historical Invention And The Politics Of Place In Contemporary Jerusalem
Thomas Abowd
Framing The Borders Of Justice: Shari’a Courts In Israel And The Conflict Between Secular Ideology And Islamic Law
Mousa Abou Ramadan
Modernity And Its Mirror: Three Views Of Jewish-Palestinian Interaction In Jaffa And Tel Aviv
Mark LeVine
Concluding Remarks

Additional Info
Territorial borders, identity borders, and many other kinds of social and cultural borders are constantly questioned in Israel-Palestine. Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine explores the concept of borders, how they are imagined and actualized in this deeply contested land. The book focuses on the “implicate relations” between Palestinian Arabs and Jews, providing new insights into the origins and dynamics of the conflicts between them. Emphasizing the history of the non-elite members of both communities, the book sees the relations between Jews and Palestinian Arabs as embedded and reflected in areas of daily living, such as in the spheres of architecture, commerce, health sexuality, and the courts. Using the voices of the new generation of scholars, Reapproaching Borders demonstrates the continued saliency of older themes such as ownership and rights to the land, but as they intersect with the newer areas of inquiry, such as sexual identity politics and spatial relations.

List of Contributors
Moussa Abou Ramadan, Thomas Abowd, Samer Alatout, Uzi Baram, Michelle Campos, Nadav Davidovitch, Geremy Forman, Mark LeVine, Daniel Monterescu, Rhona Seidelman, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Shifra Shvarts, Sandy Sufian, and Sarah S. Willen.