Voices of Reason

Solidarity Activism and the Separatist Imagination in Israel/Palestine

AvAlexander Koensler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien SUNY series, Studies in Human Rights

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Inspiring and hopeful discussion of how we can live together in a world that is both deeply divided and undeniably shared.In a region divided by violence, walls, fences, and checkpoints, Voices of Reason analyzes critically cross-boundary initiatives that seek to affirm their own reason in the land between the river and the sea. Based on fieldwork with solidarity and human rights activists in southern Israel and its Israeli–Palestinian borderlands, conducted over the span of two decades, author Alexander Koensler traverses competing moral and political orders. While violence and war and dichotomic interpretive lenses dominate the headlines, relatively little is known about everyday life across borders or peace activism in Israeli society. Precisely for this reason it is equally important to understand more complex dynamics, those aspects that remain often overshadowed but bear a potential for change. With his call to disentangle the separatist imagination, Koensler engages the notion of polyphony to offer novel ways to move beyond zero-sum assumptions in conflicts and hardening community boundaries everywhere, giving the reader an uplifting sense of how we can live together in a world that is both deeply divided and yet undeniably shared.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Studies in Human Rights
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9798855807967

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Alexander Koensler is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Perugia and Visiting Researcher at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Italy. He is the author of Israeli-Palestinian Activism: Shifting Paradigms.

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"Voices of Reason makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and ethno-national conflicts more generally by exploring various cross-community interactions and convincingly demonstrating how reality is more complex than its usual portrayal exclusively as 'two sides' endlessly warring. This is an important intervention in general, and ever more so in the current climate, and it will generate much interest. Along the way it also compellingly deconstructs and complicates several other prominent images from the Palestinian–Israeli setting, e.g., the role of international activists, the meaning of solidarity, the effects of human rights, and much more." — Ron Dudai, Ben-Gurion University

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Ethnographic Ethics and Transliteration from Hebrew and ArabicIntroductionPart 1: How Many Voices?1. A Polyphonic Perspective on Conflicts2. Polyphony in the Periphery3. Transversal Dreams, Desires, and HopesPart 2: A Polyphonic Political Imagination4. Acts5. Gyres6. AccelerationPart 3: Struggles for Justice7. Collective Rights, Individual Lives8. Human Rights in PracticeNotesReferencesIndex