Book Club: Emplaced Resistances in Occupied Palestine: Stories of a
Village, Its People, and Their Land with Suzanne Hassan Hammad
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In October 2024, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of Emplaced Resistances in Occupied Palestine: Stories of a Village, Its People, and Their Land, with the author Suzanne Hassan Hammad.
When you register for the club, we'll send you an e-book.
We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.
When: For one hour on four Tuesdays, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2024 at 14:00 UTC.
That's
Tuesday at 7 a.m. Mexico City, 9 a.m. New York, 2 p.m. Youndé, 4 p.m.
Doha, 4:30 p.m. Tehran, 6:30 p.m. New Delhi, 9 p.m. Beijing, 10 p.m.
Tokyo, 11 p.m. Sydney.
Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)
This is a small group series with limited space of up to 18
people. Sign up to reserve your spot and allow for enough time to receive the book. We look forward to reading and discussing this
important book with you!
About the Book:
With a foreword by Richard A. Falk, this book is a deeply personal
study, in which Hammad illuminates a deep agenda of place, meaning, and
resistance in territorial struggles through the telling of a less-heard
story of how women, men, and young people understand their world and
their lives in the occupied Palestinian West Bank landscape. Taking a
case study of a contested and divided Palestinian village situated in
the heart of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and known for its
sustained, non-violent protest against the Separation Wall that cuts
through its lived spaces, Hammad examines how villagers live,
experience, interpret, and attempt to resist infringements on their
property and person.
The study considers the spectrum of ways that people resist in
this context, examining not only the overt weekly protests but also the
everyday acts and subjectivities of resistance of its residents, young
and old. It offers valuable theoretical insight into the extent and ways
that meanings of place hold the potential to mediate, shape, and
sustain resistance struggles through the voices and experiences of
people. The backdrop of the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict and
Palestinians’ struggle over space, place, and history—which continues to
play out in the present—makes this book politically relevant and
empowering as it brings voices from a secluded contested village to the
world.
"At once scholarly and deeply personal, this
highly readable book tells a story of how it feels to be at the
receiving end of a colonial occupation. It is an intimate account of
what people do when their community gets partitioned, lands taken away,
and daily life disrupted. This is one of the best books I have read on
the everyday of the Israeli colonization of the Palestinian lifeworld
and resistance against it"
— Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology
and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Hammad's book gives voice to people of Bil'in and will
resonate with readers interested in natives defending their land and
livelihoods. The text leads to better understanding of how freedom will
come despite incredible odds thanks to sumud, active resistance and
resilience."
— Mazin Qumsiyeh, Professor and Director of
Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, Bethlehem
University; author of Popular Resistance in Palestine
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The Book's Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue. Back to the Present: 2022, the Naqba Continues…
Chapter 1. Retelling Stories of Dispossession and Resistance
Chapter 2. The Place: A Palestinian West Bank Village
Chapter 3. What Bil’in’s Spaces Meant: The Magnitude of What was Lost
Chapter 4. Encounters with the Barrier: Senses of Place in Flux
Chapter 5. Enter the Friday Protests: The Public Face of Resistance
Chapter 6. Holding On: Living and Doing Resistances Everyday
Chapter 7. ‘The Taste of Earth’: Meanings of Home, Place, and Resistance for Palestinians
Conclusion. The Potency of Emplaced Resistances
Epilogue. Headlines from Bil’in (2010- 2022)
Arabic Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
About the Author:
I'm
a Palestinian-British sociologist, currently based in Doha but have
lived and worked in Oxford, Belfast, Amman, Cairo, and Jerusalem. I see
myself as a 'pracademic' which basically means both a development
practitioner, and academic (researcher/educator). Most of my work over
the past 25 years has been in social and policy research in the social
protection, inclusion, health, education and humanitarian sectors. I
care about amplifying voices of relatively marginalized population
groups, those less heard, which I have done in my research, writing, and
community empowerment work. have also taught undergraduate sociology
courses at Northwestern University Qatar and Georgetown University
Qatar. I have a PhD in Sociology from Queens University Belfast, an MA
in Social Policy and Administration, and a BA from the American
University in Cairo.
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