03048nam 22006255 450 991096862730332120251116214051.09780520967854052096785210.1525/9780520967854(CKB)4340000000205507(MiAaPQ)EBC5061598(DE-B1597)520805(OCoLC)1100441941(DE-B1597)9780520967854(Perlego)550803(iGPub)CSPLUS0076385(EXLCZ)99434000000020550720190920d2017 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBoycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine /Sunaina Maira1st ed.Berkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (172 pages)American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present ;49780520294899 0520294890 9780520294882 0520294882 Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --Contents --Overview --Introduction --1. Boycott as Tactic. Here and There --2. The Academic Boycott Movement --3. Backlash. The Boycott and the Culture/Race Wars --4. Academic Abolitionism. Boycott as Decolonization --Acknowledgments --Notes --Glossary --Selected BibliographyThe Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? In this short essential book, Sunaina Maira addresses these key questions. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the United States as well as in Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement's implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization, and neoliberal capitalism.Academic freedomUnited StatesBoycottsUnited States21st centuryAcademic freedomPalestineBoycottsPalestine21st centuryArab-Israeli conflictSocial aspectsAcademic freedomBoycottsAcademic freedomBoycottsArab-Israeli conflictSocial aspects.371.1/04Maira Sunaina1185765DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910968627303321Boycott4550825UNINA