Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity

Marie-Violaine Louvet is a Lecturer at Toulouse 1-Capitole University, France. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and is a holder of the Agrégation d'anglais. She completed her PhD in 2013 at Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle University.  Her research focuses on Ireland and transnational solidarity movements with the Middle East in the twentieth and twenty-first century.

“The book’s structure is lucid and logical: it charts the historical origins of anti-Israeli protest groups in Ireland, and the extraordinary success that small groups had in changing the public discourse from one of sympathy with Israel as another small nation to one of suspicion and overt hostility. … will be of great interest to social movement theorists as Louvet breaks new ground in uncovering the various transnational strands of activism and thought that underpin the anti-Israeli lobby in Ireland.” (Cillian McGrattan, Irish Political Studies, Vol. 33 (1), August, 2017)

• Introduction.- Theoretical Introduction.- Part I. Irish Civil Society and transnational solidarity with Palestine.- 1. Origins and evolutions of pro-Palestine associations in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.- 2. Trade Unions in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and the question of boycott.- 3. A politicisation of Irish NGOs ?.- Part II. Republicanism and the colonial reading of the Middle East.- 4. Socialist republicanism, Marxism and the issue of Palestine.- 5. Republicanism and the Israel-Palestine conflict.- Part III. Pro-Israel Ireland.- 6. Voicing support for Israel: civil associations in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.- 7. Unionism, Loyalism and pro-Israel support.- Conclusion