[Linganth] Amahl Bishara on her new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Amahl Bishara discusses her new book, Crossing a Line, with Sarah Ihmoud
on the CaMP anthropology blog today.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make
up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the
population of the West Bank. In both groups, activists assert that they
share a single political struggle for national liberation. Yet, obstacles
inhibit their ability to speak to each other and as a collective.
Geopolitical boundaries fragment Palestinians into ever smaller
groups. Crossing a Line enters these distinct environments for political
expression and action of Palestinians who carry Israeli citizenship and
Palestinians subject to Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, and
considers how Palestinians are differently impacted by dispossession,
settler colonialism, and militarism.


Amahl Bishara looks to sites of political practice—journalism, historical
commemorations, street demonstrations, social media, in prison, and on the
road—to analyze how Palestinians create collectivities in these varied
circumstances. She draws on firsthand research, personal interviews, and
public media to examine how people shape and reshape meanings in
circumstances of constraint. In considering these different environments
for political expression and action, Bishara illuminates how expression is
always grounded in place—and how a people can struggle together for
liberation even when they cannot join together in protest.
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