Becoming Pro-Palestinian: A ‘Self-History’

IF 1 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Rosemary Sayigh
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Since the revolt of early oral historians such as Ronald Fraser and Alessandro Portelli against the state-based practice of classical history, it has become commonplace to adopt oral history theory and methods to record the experiences of subaltern groups excluded from mainstream history. Such excluded groups are many, among them workers, ethnic minorities, and the peoples of colonised countries such as Palestine. At the time of the expulsion of the majority of Palestinians from their country in 1948 there was little support for them in world public opinion. But over time, international solidarity has grown to a point where it constitutes a serious concern for the Israeli state, as Israeli violence towards the Palestinians under its control draws increasing criticism from the international community. I write here to trace the trajectory of someone who tried to join a kibbutz in 1951 but who found herself instead teaching in the Arab world, and from there discovering the Palestinian cause through oral history work with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. This ‘self-history’ may serve an historical purpose through illustrating how opinion towards an important contemporary political issue may change in an individual case.
成为亲巴勒斯坦人:一段“自我历史”
自早期口述历史学家(如Ronald Fraser和Alessandro Portelli)对以国家为基础的古典历史实践的反抗以来,采用口述历史的理论和方法来记录被主流历史排除在外的次等群体的经历已成为司空见惯的事情。这种被排斥的群体有很多,其中包括工人、少数民族和巴勒斯坦等殖民地国家的人民。1948年,当大多数巴勒斯坦人被驱逐出他们的国家时,世界舆论对他们的支持很少。但随着时间的推移,随着以色列对其控制下的巴勒斯坦人的暴力行为受到国际社会越来越多的批评,国际社会的团结已经发展到一个严重关切的地步。我写这篇文章是为了追溯一个人的轨迹,她在1951年试图加入一个基布兹,但却发现自己在阿拉伯世界教书,从那里开始,通过与黎巴嫩的巴勒斯坦难民口述历史的工作,发现了巴勒斯坦的事业。这种“自我历史”可以通过说明对一个重要的当代政治问题的看法如何在个别情况下发生变化来达到历史目的。
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Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies (formerly Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal) was founded in 2002 as a fully refereed international journal. It publishes new, stimulating and provocative ideas on Palestine, Israel and the wider Middle East, paying particular attention to issues that have a contemporary relevance and a wider public interest. The journal draws upon expertise from virtually all relevant disciplines: history, politics, culture, literature, archaeology, geography, economics, religion, linguistics, biblical studies, sociology and anthropology. The journal deals with a wide range of topics: ‘two nations’ and ‘three faiths’; conflicting Israeli and Palestinian perspectives; social and economic conditions; religion and politics in the Middle East; Palestine in history and today; ecumenism, and interfaith relations; modernisation and postmodernism; religious revivalisms and fundamentalisms; Zionism, Neo-Zionism, Christian Zionism, anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism; theologies of liberation in Palestine and Israel; colonialism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, post-colonialism and decolonisation; ‘History from below’ and Subaltern studies; ‘One-state’ and Two States’ solutions in Palestine and Israel; Crusader studies, Genocide studies and Holocaust studies. Conventionally these diversified discourses are kept apart. This multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal brings them together.
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