Law at work :

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Law at work : "
Kelly, Tobias William.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1095642
Doc. No	:	TLets405438
Main Entry	:	Kelly, Tobias William.
Title & Author	:	Law at work :\ Kelly, Tobias William.
College	:	London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
Date	:	2003
student score	:	2003
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	The thesis explores the cultural and political practices of law among West BankPalestinians. It asks why law is central to the ways in which many Palestiniansarticulate their claims for justice, yet at the same time law is also often experiencedas coercive or as a promise unfulfilled? The thesis examines the role of legal regimesin creating, transforming and rejecting political struggles. In doing so it addressesissues of law, coercion, collective action, state building, nationalism and territory.The thesis is based on 18 months fieldwork in a West Bank village among a group ofwage-labourers.The thesis argues that due to the law's association with illegitimate or weak nationstates, these labourers do not associate law with morality. However, promises oflegal entitlements provide one of the few avenues through which the labourers canattempt to gain access to political and economic resources. The importance ofcitizenship for access to these resources means that legal processes form the groundsupon which many of their struggles are fought. The contradictory relationshipbetween territory and citizenship in the West Bank means that the labourers aredenied the formal promises of protection under Israeli law. The labourers are forcedto rely on a territorially and politically weak PNA, which is unable or unwilling toprovide for them.The thesis argues that coercion and discrimination are internal to the structures oflaw in the West Bank. The state of Israel and the PNA claim to be regimes based onthe 'rule of law'. At the same time the relationship between the Israeli state and thePNA is based on national exclusivity, territorial integration and political inequality.In this situation, 'the rule of law' can only be maintained by a coercive separation ofIsraelis and Palestinians and discriminatory politics. Legal equality and justice at onelevel depends on coercion and discrimination at another.
Added Entry	:	London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)