| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Reconstructing the Civic examines the civic activism of the homeland Palestinian minority in Israel. Employing a multi-methodological and empirically rich approach, Amal Jamal blends historical description with interviews of Palestinian elites drawn from a diverse range of civil society groups such as NGOs, youth movements, and religious organizations. He also critiques the failure of Western/liberal scholarship to account for the experience of minority civil society organizations in illiberal social and political contexts, largely because this literature assumes there is an inherent relationship between civil society and democracy. Jamal places an important spotlight on the complex interplay between liberal and illiberal trends in the emergence, organization, and transformation of Palestinian civil society in Israel as well as the need to introduce an alternative ethical model that aims to reconstruct ethnic states in universal civic terms. |
| Contents |
The Theoretical Framing of Civic Activism: A Critical Appraisal -- Civic Activism, Minority Politics, and National Conflicts -- Political Culture and Civil Society: Relevant Lessons from the Arab World -- Neoliberal Nationalism and Civil Society in Israel -- Transformations in the PCI, the Emerging New Elite, and Civic Activism -- Palestinian CSOization, Active Citizenship, and the Politics of Contention -- Public Trust and Social Capital in Palestinian Civic Activism in Israel -- Civil Engagement, Social Responsibility, and Political Empowerment -- Civic Engagement and the Democratic Argument -- CSOization, Democratization, Empowerment, and Development. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Palestinian Arabs -- Political activity -- Israel.
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Palestinian Arabs -- Political activity. |
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Israel. |
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Palestinian Arabs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jamal, Amal (Professor of political science). Reconstructing the civic. New York : State University of New York Press, [2020] 9781438478715 (DLC) 2020940102 (OCoLC)1129099437 |
| ISBN |
9781438478739 (electronic book) |
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1438478739 (electronic book) |
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1438478712 |
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9781438478715 |
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