Essays about: "Palestinian Territories"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Palestinian Territories.

1. 1. Legacy of Postcolonial and Self-Determination in Occupied Lands: Comparative Case of Palestine & Tibet from Within and Beyond

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Hani Abou Fadel; [2022]
   Keywords : Palestine; Tibet; Postcolonialism; Self-determination; Diaspora; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis has presented a comparison between two occupied territories Tibet and Palestine as countries that have a long legacy of postcolonialism and strife for self-determination. The comparison was conducted from a postcolonial perspective of how Palestine is being occupied by Israel with full Western backing, while Tibet was occupied by another postcolonial country China. READ MORE

3. 2. A Double Occupation: The Struggle Within The Struggle A field study about Palestinian women’s struggle for gender equality during life under occupation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Agnes Liljegren; [2021]
   Keywords : Palestinian Women in the OPTs; Gender Equality; Occupation; Patriarchy; Intersectionality; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This study explores two forms of oppressions facing Palestinian women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: the Israeli Occupation and the Patriarchal Structure in their society. The purpose of the study is to examine how these oppressions intersect and impact Palestinian women’s daily life and their struggle for gender equality. READ MORE

4. 3. Environmentalism of the occupied: A slow violence perspective on the West Bank’s deteriorating agricultural sector, and an overview of Palestinian agro-resistance in the struggle towards food sovereignty

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Jennifer Luna Pedersen; [2018]
   Keywords : slow violence; food sovereignty; environmentalism of the poor; environmentalism of the occupied; resistance; occupied Palestinian territories oPt ; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores what it means to struggle for food sovereignty under belligerent occupation. It makes the argument that the deliberate suppression of agriculture in the West Bank (occupied Palestinian territories) and ensuing deterioration of food sovereignty can be understood as an example of “slow violence,” further entrenching the settler-colonial occupation of Palestine. READ MORE

5. 4. Remote Solidarity and Remote Warfare: Street Art and Military Visualising Technologies in Palestinian Territories.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Panagiota Bitouni; [2018]
   Keywords : street art; spectacle; biometrics; drone surveillance; Palestine; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This essay investigates the ways of convergence of the spectacle with the surveillance, as suggested by Thomas Mitchell and Nicholas Mirzoeff. In order to ground their suggested theory in concrete visual empirical cases, I situate my analysis in the Palestinian territories. READ MORE

6. 5. Farming, resistance and coping in the occupied West Bank : a study of Palestinian agricultural actors’ framing of farming

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Mascha Wendler; [2018]
   Keywords : Palestine; West Bank; food security; food sovereignty; farming as resistance; agriculture; framing; collective action frames; patriotism;

   Abstract : Farming has a long cultural tradition in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) but today it is affected by the Israeli occupation. This thesis investigates how different agricultural actors in the West Bank frame farming as a practice and what collective action frames they have developed connected to their understanding of farming. READ MORE