The lived experience of Palestinians under occupation reflects the stories of a people in a continuously subordinate position. My recurring questions were how would they construct the experience of such subordination? How would they define, discuss and describe what they did to …
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This study is an analysis of Palestinian cultural experiences in the United States. The interviews within this are of two Palestinians who have refused to assimilate into American society, one who considers himself American, one who is seen as both Palestinian and American, and …
Israel has one of the most highly-developed hiking trail networks in the world. It covers the entire country, including the Golan Heights and the West Bank, and its history spans that of the modern State of Israel. However, despite the fact that the marked and mapped trail syste…
This dissertation consists of three substantive essays. Each essay is rooted in the experiences that I had in conducting a qualitative study on survival within `precarious contexts', using Palestine/Israel as the geographical context. Essay One (Chapter 2) explores, through a co…
Throughout history, walls and fences have served to secure and defend populations by reconfiguring the political-economic sphere. The objective of this thesis is to identify and examine the various functions of border security walls in the contemporary solidification of capitali…
This dissertation uses the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) to examine U.S. foreign policy applied to the question of Palestine from 1945 – November 1947. It includes seven chapters, four of which are empirical research on the issue. Chapter I is an introduction to the purpose…
The Middle East conflict can best be examined through two very significant components of social history: identity and conflict. In a precursory study, the 1987 Palestinian Intifada represents a clear point of regional crisis, transforming the social identities of the principal g…
What explains change in militant organizations' structures and behaviors? How do rebel groups cope with crises such as acute repression, mass displacement, or fragmentation? More broadly, how can we conceptualize militant organizations' adaptive processes? Drawing on nineteen mo…
This dissertation seeks to understand the role of women as political actors in the rise of Islamo-nationalist movement in Palestine. Using a historical and ethnographic approach, it examines the changing opportunity structures available to Palestinian women in the nationalist st…
Studies of modern Palestine and Israel usually highlight the struggle of European powers for control and the formation of Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms. This dissertation does otherwise. With a thesis centered on the physical "making of a Holy Land," this work combines the…
U.S. evangelical Christians have historically been deeply invested observers of events in Israel. This dissertation focuses on U.S. church leaders and their views on mission in Israel/Palestine. The research shows two major themes shape their perspectives on this complex context…
Since 1948, voices of Palestinian civil society have mostly been absent from the media as have debates about how to resolve their grievances and overall situation of life under the constraints imposed by Israel. This dissertation was intended to provide a venue for those voices …
Jerusalem is, by many standards, a small dusty town in a land torn by conflict. Because of its historical connection to the beginnings of three great religions, however, it has come to assume a very prominent position. Most recently, it has occupied the center stage of the Israe…
On December 27, 2008, Israel began a military campaign codenamed Operation Cast Lead with an aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip. On January 3, 2009, Israel expanded its aerial assault with a ground invasion. Military operations continued until January 18, 2009, when Israel imp…
The international laws and customs that decreed a right for a Jewish state to be created within the former British Mandate of Palestine provided the same in equal measure for an Arab state within the same Mandate. What they did not provide for, however, thanks in no small part t…
This research examines the changes that took place in the field of Youth Engagement and Development (YED) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in the period between the years of 1987-2011. It explores how changes in the political opportunity structures over the period of …
This thesis examines the significance of a micro-level approach to the Israeli-Palestinian water conflict. By rethinking scale of analysis and examining local insecurities, Palestinian experiences reveal how water conflict plays out in latent and discursive ways. In a step-by-st…
What does it mean to speak of governance in the absence of states? This dissertation seeks to answer this question through an empirical examination of the founding of two unique agricultural settlements constructed by the Jewish community of Palestine, also known as the Yishuv: …
In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn who challenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative wh…