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Jean Zaru, Occupied with Non-Violence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008), edited by Diana L. Eck and Marla Schrader. 176pp. Paperback. ISBN 978 0 8006 6317 9.

Jean Zaru, Occupied with Non-Violence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks (Minneapolis: Fortress Press,... Holy Land Studies ethno-national and not a territorial one. In this context, West Bank Palestinians find themselves in a predicament of inclusion and exclusion at once in a ‘border regime’ that creates spaces enabling them to work in the Israeli economy but excluding them from access to legal rights within it in the name of ‘security’. The book also gives attention to the encounters of the residents of Bayt Hajjar with the PNA. Kelly explores the fragility of the PNA in adjudication and law enforcement in light of its history of state building and territorial fragmentation. Particularly after the second Intifada, the villagers described were ‘left in a legal enforcement black hole’ (p.121). The lack of sovereignty of the courts has meant that ‘bureaucratic institutions had to compete and cooperate with groups rooted in a history of armed mobilisation that claimed to act in the name of the Palestinian people’ (p.136). This has resulted in a situation where both the residents and the PNA resorted to alternative quasi-legal and informal processes; the residents relying on the coercive power of certain political figures, such as the Governor, and the PNA reproducing itself through these extra-judicial processes. But rather than http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Holy Land Studies Edinburgh University Press

Jean Zaru, Occupied with Non-Violence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008), edited by Diana L. Eck and Marla Schrader. 176pp. Paperback. ISBN 978 0 8006 6317 9.

Grey, Mary
Holy Land Studies , Volume 7 (2): 234 – Nov 1, 2008
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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press, 2008
Subject
Book Reviews; Book Reviews: A Palestinian Woman Speaks
ISSN
1474-9475
eISSN
1750-0125
DOI
10.3366/E1474947508000280
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Holy Land Studies ethno-national and not a territorial one. In this context, West Bank Palestinians find themselves in a predicament of inclusion and exclusion at once in a ‘border regime’ that creates spaces enabling them to work in the Israeli economy but excluding them from access to legal rights within it in the name of ‘security’. The book also gives attention to the encounters of the residents of Bayt Hajjar with the PNA. Kelly explores the fragility of the PNA in adjudication and law enforcement in light of its history of state building and territorial fragmentation. Particularly after the second Intifada, the villagers described were ‘left in a legal enforcement black hole’ (p.121). The lack of sovereignty of the courts has meant that ‘bureaucratic institutions had to compete and cooperate with groups rooted in a history of armed mobilisation that claimed to act in the name of the Palestinian people’ (p.136). This has resulted in a situation where both the residents and the PNA resorted to alternative quasi-legal and informal processes; the residents relying on the coercive power of certain political figures, such as the Governor, and the PNA reproducing itself through these extra-judicial processes. But rather than

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Published: Nov 1, 2008

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