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"Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State," this book brings together contributions on the state in the Arab world from the past and present in an edited volume. Altered States views the state less as a matter of people and institutions and more as sets of practices, regimes of truth, and capabilities of power, and the effects they have on those under their control. Through analysing case studies - including Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, UAE, Rojova, and the Islamic State - the concept of the state is applied and questioned. This book examines the roots of policies that led to the uprisings, focusing on how the "authoritarian bargain", which helped define Arab politics, broke down with the rise of neoliberalism. It also assesses how boundaries between state and society have been redrawn, as various dynamics have brought state forces into more open conflict with citizens and each other. The rapid pace of change in the Arab world has necessitated constant modification of themes and theoretical lens of analysis. This book will, therefore, be of interest to practitioners, graduate students and academics of the Arab world, statehood, and political science"--

Land-two states?: an introduction to the parallel states concept / Mathias Mossberg -- Can sovereignty be divided? / Jens Bartelson -- Parallel sovereignty: dividing and sharing core state functions / Peter Wallensteen -- Security strategy for the parallel states project: an Israeli perspective / Nimrod Hurvitz and Dror Zeevi -- Palestinian national security / Hussein Agha and Ahmad S. Khalidi -- An Israel-Palestine parallel states economy by 2035 / Raja Khalidi -- Economic considerations in the implementation of a PSP / Raphael Bar-El -- Parallel sovereignty in practice: the judicial dimensions of a PSS / Various Authors; compiled by Mathias Mossberg -- Religion in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: from obstacle to peace to force for reconciliation? / Mark LeVine and Liam O'Mara IV -- The necessity for thinking outside the box / Hiba Husseini -- Parallel lives, parallel states: imagining a different future / Eyal Megged

The concept of prejudice has profoundly influenced how we have investigated, explained and tried to change intergroup relations of discrimination and inequality. But what has this concept contributed to our knowledge of relations between groups and what has it obscured or misrepresented? How has it expanded or narrowed the horizons of psychological inquiry? How effective or ineffective has it been in guiding our attempts to transform social relations and institutions? In this book, a team of internationally renowned psychologists re-evaluate the concept of prejudice, in an attempt to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject and to help the reader gain a clearer understanding of relations within and between groups. This fresh look at prejudice will appeal to scholars and students of social psychology, sociology, political science and peace studies

This collection of essays examines how modern public spheres reflect and mask - often both simultaneously - discourses of order, contests for hegemony, and techniques of power in the Muslim world. It builds on scholarship that re-imagines theories and practices of the public in modern and contemporary societies. While examining disparate time periods and locations, each contributor views modern and contemporary public spheres as crucial to the functioning, and understanding, of political and societal power in Muslim majority countries.

How do people behave in the seconds after they become aware they have been caught up in a real-life transport emergency? This paper presents the first micro-behavioral, video-based analysis of the behavior of passengers during a small explosion and subsequent fire on a subway train. We analyzed the behavior of 40 passengers present in the same carriage as the explosion. We documented the first action of the passengers following the onset of the emergency and described evidence of pro- and anti-social behavior. Passengers' first actions varied widely. Moreover, anti-social behavior was rare and displays of pro-sociality were more common. In a quantitative analysis, we examined spatial clustering of running behavior and patterns in passenger exit choices. We found both homogeneity and heterogeneity in the running behavior and exiting choices of passengers. We discuss the implications of these findings for the mass emergency literature and for evacuation modeling.

Privacy is psychologically important, vital for democracy, and in the era of ubiquitous and mobile surveillance technology, facing increasingly complex threats and challenges. Yet surveillance is often justified under a trope that one has 'nothing to hide'. We conducted focus groups (N = 42) on topics of surveillance and privacy and using discursive analysis, identify the ideological assumptions and the positions that people adopt to make sense of their participation in a surveillance society. We find a premise that surveillance is increasingly inescapable, but this was only objected to when people reported feeling misrepresented, or where they had an inability to withhold aspects of their identities. The (in)visibility of the surveillance technology also complicated how surveillance is constructed. Those interested in engaging the public in debates about surveillance may be better served by highlighting the identity consequences of surveillance, rather than constructing surveillance as a generalised privacy threat.

Filling a gap in the chronology: what archaeology is revealing about the Ottoman past in Israel / Uzi Baram -- Remembering Jewish-Arab contact and conflict / Michelle Campos -- Reapproaching the borders of Nazareth (1948-1956): Israel's control of an all-Arab city / Geremy Forman -- Defining national medical borders: medical terminology and the making of Hebrew medicine / Sandy Sufian -- Contested bodies: medicine, public health, and mass immigration to Israel / Nadav Davidovitch, Rhona Seidelman, and Shifra Shvarts -- Seeing the "Holy Land" with new eyes: undocumented labor migration, reproductive health, and the fluctuating borders of the Israeli national body / Sarah S. Willen -- Masculinity as a relational mode: Palestinian gender ideologies and working-class boundaries in an ethnically mixed town / Daniel Monterescu -- From water abundance to water scarcity (1936-1959): a "fluid" history of Jewish subjectivity in historic Palestine and Israel / Samer Alatout -- Seizing locality in Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan -- Present and absent: historical invention and the politics of place in contemporary Jerusalem / Thomas Abowd -- Framing the borders of justice: Sharia courts in Israel and the conflict between secular ideology and Islamic law / Moussa Abou Ramadan -- Modernity and its mirror: three views of Jewish-Palestinian interaction in Jaffa and Tel Aviv / Mark LeVine

Foreword / Edmund Burke III -- Introduction: Social biographies in making sense of history / Gershon Shafir and Mark LeVine -- Part 1. Voices of the Ottoman past : from the mountains to the sea. "Left naked on the beach" : the villagers of Aylut in the grip of the New Templers / Mahmoud Yazbak -- The Sephardi entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak / Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark -- A musician's lot : Wasif Jawhariyyeh's Old Jerusalem / Salim Tamari -- Revolutionary pioneer : Manya Shochat and her commune / Gershon Shafir -- Part 2. From empire to empire : Palestine under British rule. Hero or antihero? S. Yizhar's ambivalent Zionism and the first sabra generation / Nitsa Ben-Ari -- "A son of the country" : Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, modernist physician and Palestinian ethnographer / Philippe Bourmaud -- The ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a female construction worker / David De Vries and Talia Pfeffermann -- "A nation in a hero" : Abdul Rahim Hajj Mohammad and the Arab Revolt / Sonia Nimr -- Hillel Kook : revisionism and rescue / Rebecca Kook -- Part 3. A state is born : a nation is dispersed. Matar ʻAbdelrahim : from a Palestinian village to a Syrian refugee camp / Rochelle Davis -- Joseph Spronz : from the Holocaust to a safe shore / Gershon Shafir -- The trees die standing : a story of a Palestinian refugee / Ramzy Baroud -- The brief career of Prosper Cohen : a would-be leader of Moroccan immigrants / Yaron Tsur -- A tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv / Aziza Khazzoom -- Is slavery over? Black and white Arab Bedouin women in the Naqab (Negev) / Safa Abu-Rabia -- Part 4. A land occupied and liberated. Of possessions and dispossessions : a story of Palestinian property in Jewish Israeli lives / Rebecca L. Stein -- The rise and fall of the Russian-speaking journalist in Israel / Nelly Elias and Julia Lerner -- The village against the settlement : two generations of conflict in the Nablus region / Moriel Ram and Mark LeVine -- Majed al-Masri in two intifadas in Nablus / Lætitia Bucaille -- Part 5. An impossible peace, a shared future? Benni Gaon : from socialist to capitalist tycoon / Michal Frenkel -- From religion to revenge : becoming a Hamas suicide bomber / Bader Araj -- Yigael Amir : the making of a political assassin / Michael Feige -- Mais in the war of the words / Erin F. Olsen -- Jonathan Pollak : an anarchist "traitor" in his own society / Neve Gordon -- Abu Ahmad and his Handalas / Ala Alazzeh