Conflicted commitments : race, privilege, and power in transnational solidarity activism / / Gada Mahrouse

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809500803321
• Autore: Mahrouse Gada
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-7735-9209-1; 0-7735-9208-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Classificazione: MS 3300
• Disciplina: 302/.14
• Soggetti: Solidarity; Humanitarianism - Political aspects; Social justice - Political aspects; Race - Social aspects; Race relations; Power (Social sciences)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Passport or Carte Blanche? On Race, Privilege, and Power in Transnational Solidarity Activism""; ""1 Whiteness and the Divergent Responses to Rachel Corrieâ€?s Death""; ""2 The CPT Kidnapping: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Racialized “Politics of Lifeâ€?""; ""3 The Compelling Story of the First-World Activist in the War Zone""; ""4 Race-conscious Transnational Activists with Cameras: Mediators of Compassion""; ""5 Conflicted Commitments: The “Fine Line Between Advocacy and Imperialismâ€?""""6 “Split Affinitiesâ€?: Gender and Sexual Violence in Solidarity Movements""; ""7 Liberal Universalism and Pragmatism: Implications for Decolonizing Solidarity""; ""Afterword: Solidarity Tourism and the Depoliticization of Activism""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: Conflicted Commitments analyzes a form of non-violent, direct transnational solidarity in which activists from the global North travel to support and protect people in the global South. Gada Mahrouse contends that this brand of activism is a compelling site of racialized power relations and is highly instructive for a nuanced understanding of systems of race. Mahrouse argues that the individuals who partake in this form of activism consciously deploy their white, western privilege to offer support and protection to those facing threats of violence. Moreover, given that this type of activism asserts itself as an exemplary form of anti-racist commitment, it illustrates that well-meaning practices can inadvertently reproduce racialized power structures that are embedded in imperial and colonial legacies. Mahrouse focuses on Palestine and Iraq in the post-9/11 era to contemplate the contemporary challenges that these regions pose for solidarity activism. By exploring how individual activists manage and negotiate their dominant positioning in these encounters, Mahrouse reflects more broadly on the ethics of social justice strategies in an increasingly transnational world. A detailed study of the racialized complexities and contradictions inherent in transnational solidarity activism, Conflicted Commitments makes a significant contribution to critical race and feminist studies.

British Trade Unions, the Labour Party, and Israel's Histadrut / / by Ronnie Fraser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910544859303321
• Autore: Fraser Ronnie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783030868147; 9783030868130
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 pages)
• Disciplina: 331.880941
• Soggetti: Great Britain - History; World politics; History, Modern; Judaism - History; History of Britain and Ireland; Political History; Modern History; Jewish History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. 1917-1948: The Early Years -- 3. 1948 -1960: The Years of Indifference -- 4. 1960-1973: The Golden Years for TUC-Histadrut Cooperation -- 5. 1973-1982: The Move to Outright Criticism of Israel -- 6. 1985-2020: Changing Sides -- 7. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the British Labour Party and the trade unions and how their relationship with the Jews of Palestine and Israel has evolved over the past one hundred years. It also reflects the changing attitudes of the Labour Party and the unions towards the persecution of the Jews, a Jewish homeland in Palestine, Israel and antisemitism. An in-depth examination of critical events in European and Middle East history reveals the links between British unions and their Israeli union counterpart, the Histadrut (General Federation of Labour), and sets out the circumstances in which the unions went from backing the Labour Party's 1917 war aims declaration, which called for the establishment of ; a Jewish homeland in Palestine, through to the present day, which sees the unions promoting campaigns for boycotts and sanctions against the State of Israel.