Global Palestine

John Collins

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January, 2012
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70310-9
$30.00

"Global Palestine tackles an obvious but understudied question: Why is Palestine so internationally significant? The answers provided in this volume blend sharp analysis of global politics, deep knowledge of local struggles and transnational solidarity movements, and a clear understanding of the ways in which the Israeli state wields its power at home and abroad." — Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Global Palestine offers a brilliant reading of the Palestine question, helping us more fully understand both the operation of a necropolitical regime of surveillance, interdiction, and control and a spirited and increasingly globalized resistance to it. Finding inspiration in the continuing Palestinian struggle for justice, this book is a fine example of intellectual precision and political commitment." — Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

"Global Palestine is compellingly and clearly written. Its fluidity is wonderful, theoretically sophisticated, and very thoughtful." — Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Related Subjects

• Middle East Studies

About the Author

John Collins is professor and chair of global studies at St. Lawrence University in New York. He is the author of Occupied By Memory: The Intifada Generation and The Palestinian State of Emergency and is coeditor, with Ross Glover, of Collateral Language: A User’s Guide to America’s New War. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Social Text, Globalizations, and Middle East Report, among other publications. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative studies in discourse and society from the University of Minnesota, where he was a MacArthur Scholar.

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