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" History and Politics of Nomadism in Modern Palestine (1882-1948) "
Seraje Assi
Tucker, Judith
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804135
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TL48952
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1827689991; 10145560
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Alzahmi, Rashed Ali
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History and Politics of Nomadism in Modern Palestine (1882-1948)\ Seraje AssiTucker, Judith
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Georgetown University
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Arabic & Islamic Studies
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2016
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343
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Committee members: Abi-Mershed, Osama Abi-Mershed; Gannage, Emma; Tamari, Salim
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-01039-8
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My research examines contending visions on nomadism in modern Palestine, with special focus on the British Mandate period. By nomadism I refer to a form of territorialist discourse, one which views tribal formations as the antipode of national and land rights, thus justifying the exteriority of nomadism to the state apparatus. Drawing on primary sources in Arabic and Hebrew, I show how local conceptions of nomadism have been reconstructed by an emerging class of Palestinian and Zionist nationalists into new legal taxonomies rooted in modern European theories and praxis. By undertaking a comparative approach, I maintain that the introduction of these taxonomies transformed not only local Palestinian perceptions of nomadism, but perceptions that characterized early Zionist literature. The purpose of my research is not to provide a legal framework for nomadism on the basis of these taxonomies. Quite the contrary, it is to show how nomadism, as a set of official narratives on the Bedouin of Palestine, failed to imagine nationhood, let alone statehood, beyond the single apparatus of settlement.
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Middle Eastern history; History; Political science
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Social sciences;Autochthony;Bedouin;Labor zionism;Mandate palestine;Nomadism;Tribal land rights
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Tucker, Judith
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Arabic Islamic StudiesGeorgetown University
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