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2 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 375 kr
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This book investigates how Palestinians engage in compensatory movements to negotiate political authority, collective identity, and everyday life by opening alternative routes and creating functional spaces.What sets this work apart is its innovative focus on the principle of compensation, which disrupts linear readings of functionality or dysfunction in Palestinian spaces. Rather than viewing Palestinian life through dominant frameworks of resistance, resilience, victimhood, or adaptation to Westphalian norms, this book reveals how refugee camps, humanitarian agencies, pro-Palestinian demonstrations, and underground networks emerge as spaces of co-existential agency where circulatory mobilities take place. By examining Gaza’s heterotopias, tunnel economies, UNRWA’s evolving role, and more-than-human dimensions of Palestinian spaces, the authors demonstrate how compensatory processes sustain Palestinian political, economic, and symbolic life despite what is seen as settler colonialism and oppression. Drawing on spatial analysis, security studies, organization theory, and insights from continental philosophy, this interdisciplinary approach illuminates how Palestinians transcend rigid binaries of functional/dysfunctional spaces and fixed power asymmetries, challenging scholars to see beyond dominant paradigms and recognize compensation as a driving force in forging new spatial possibilities.This book will be of much interest to students, experts, and policy-makers engaged in Human and Political Geography, Postcolonial Studies, Middle East and Palestine, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Anthropology.
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 597 kr
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This book reveals how sovereign, non-sovereign, and sovereignty-aspiring actors at the edges of the Westphalian system—particularly in post-/settler-colonial spaces and neo-imperial zones rife with conflict—profoundly reshape world politics beyond the usual anarchy-versus-hierarchy debate. By introducing and integrating novel concepts of liminal ecotones (space), adaptation–exaptation complexes (function), and the principle of trans-systemic circulation (compensation), the authors demonstrate how evolving frontier composites in Djibouti, Palestine, and Armenia/Nagorno-Karabakh, along with the diverse agencies operating across these regions, become epicenters of strategic innovation, resilience, and unorthodox authority. This book arises from extensive research on composite characteristics of international political order where the Westphalian system, though systemically-dominant, is one of several contributing systems. While International Relations and Human and Political Geography forms its main disciplinary bedrock, this book also weaves insights from Security Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Post-Soviet Studies, Anthropology, Strategic Studies, Historiography, and Conflict Resolution. Through spatial lens and organization-theory analysis, this book delivers a valuable contribution to International Organization, IR, and Human and Political Geography, both theoretically and empirically, further underpinned by robust primary data (interviews). By combining interdisciplinary breadth with current global concerns, this book also appeals across a wide spectrum of academic fields and beyond. In addition to its topical relevance, this book enhances its practical marketability and scholarly significance by its interdisciplinarity.