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"Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Palestinian youth movements have formed unofficial and leaderless networks of political activism, using the internet to mobilise and bring together three generations of Palestinian activists. This book focuses on three key case studies that have marked a turning point in the development of youth-organised and grassroots Palestinian politics: the 15 March movement in Gaza, the Palestinians for Dignity movement in the West Bank, and the Prawer movement of young Palestinians in Israel. Drawing on extensive fieldwork composed of interviews with leading Palestinian activists in the West Bank and Gaza and detailed analysis of social media patterns, this book offers a fresh reading of Palestinian youth and their central online and offline role in popular protests against both Israeli and Palestinian power structures."--
For more than a decade now, a growing variety of protests, mobilizations and movements have been initiated through the Internet. Particularly from 2011 and onwards, a rapid and global expansion of such movements has generated a growing scholarly debate on the role of digital activism for new social movements across various political contexts. My research engages this debate by examining a series of Palestinian protests that took place in the period of 2011-2013. This dissertation explores the relationship between digital networks (especially social media platforms) and new youth movements within a Palestinian context marked by territorial fragmentation, Israel’s ongoing military occupation and internal Palestinian political divisions in the West Bank and Gaza. In this study, I present an in-depth analysis of three case studies in the Occupied Palestinian territories and inside Israel, based on extensive qualitative field research, and complemented by a broad online survey of Palestinian youth’s patterns of online engagement. Through this analysis, I shed light on the formation, dynamics and values of a series of Palestinian protests and the prospects for social change, in a post-Arab Spring context. Taking the Arab Uprisings of 2011 as a point of reference in the changing mobilization processes in the region, I take issue with a prevalent scholarly approach that analyzed these newer movements through the lenses of their links with formally organized activist groups and traditional social movements. By focusing on the intersection between online activities and offline Palestinian contexts, I explain why these young activists preferred loose networks of mobilization, how did their protests take off, and under what conditions they eventually succeeded. The sudden surge of a sustained wave of protests and the tenacious rise of a new group of actors and their new forms of organizing happened at a time when youth studies and polling centers had emphasized just the opposite: the exit of young Palestinians from politics. With this central paradox as a backdrop, the analysis in this dissertation centers around three key areas: 1- the conditions that determined the transformation of certain actions initiated on digital networks into street protests; 2- the degree to which social media, online networks and new forms of activism in this digital age affected more traditional mobilization modes, especially those implemented by official Palestinian parties, and more conventional party affiliated youth organizations in each geographic area; and, 3- the long-term impact of these youth groups and their newer mobilization modes within their society, and relations with existing grassroots movements within the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This study revealed the impact of these protests on the political cosciousness of a network of activists directly involved in these movements. It also exposed the significant weakening of the capacity of official parties and formal movements to draw on these newer forms of mobilizations. I argue that the online campaigns and offline protests signal the laying of the groundwork for a new and networked Palestinian social movement, developing outside the structures of official parties and formal political organizations. Particularly within a Palestinian context marked by segregation walls, military checkpoints, and internal political intimidation, social media tools and increased social media literacy among Palestinian youths enabled this collection of protest movements to move, after the Second Intifada, from the margins of the Palestinian society to its center.
Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Palestinian youth movements have formed unofficial and leaderless networks of political activism, using the internet to mobilise and bring together three generations of Palestinian activists. This book focuses on three key case studies that have marked a turning point in the development of youth-organised and grassroots Palestinian politics: the 15 March movement in Gaza, the Palestinians for Dignity movement in the West Bank, and the Prawer movement of young Palestinians in Israel. Drawing on extensive fieldwork composed of interviews with leading Palestinian activists in the West Bank and Gaza and detailed analysis of social media patterns, this book offers a fresh reading of Palestinian youth and their central online and offline role in popular protests against both Israeli and Palestinian power structures.
Historically, students have been a riotous bunch. Long before wild spring breaks, medieval students waged battles with bows and arrows at the earliest universities, while Russian students made assassination attempts against the tsars. The legacy of campus unrest continues at the cusp of the 21st century with a new wave of student rebellion at home and abroad. Student Resistance is an international history of student activism. Chronicling 500 years of strife between activists and the academy, Mark Edelman Boren unearths the defiant roots of the ivory tower. Whether through nonviolent protest or bloody insurrection, students have catalyzed educational reform, transformed national politics, and, in more than a few instances, spurred coup d'e; tats. These acts of rebellion are inherent features in the advancement of knowledge, Boren argues, and there is much to learn from students fighting for reform. Drawing on major incidents of student activism, including Civil Rights protests in the US, the 1968 student riots in Paris, and Tiananmen Square, Boren shows that student resistance is a continually occurring and vital social phenomenon, world-wide. For those concerned with the increasingly public and complex role that universities play in society, Student Resistance is essential reading.
Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.
"In the years following Israel's 2008-9 "Operation Cast Lead" assault on the Palestinians of Gaza, a new kind of student movement emerged on U.S. campuses, in solidarity with Palestinians seeking to fully exercise their human and political rights within their historic homeland. These students have brought national attention to "BDS", the worldwide campaign in support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel until it abides by international law. Nora Barrows-Friedman traveled across the United States in 2013-2014 interviewing the young organizers at the core of this movement and documenting the political legacy these activists have built in the face of considerable opposition."--Page 4 of cover.
A timely look at children's rights, the young activists who fought for them, and how readers can do the same by Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, and Geraldine Van Bueren
"A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Book" -- dust jacket.
"The media has recently been abuzz with cases of citizens around the world using digital technologies to push for social and political change: from the use of Twitter to amplify protests in Iran and Moldova to the thousands of American non-profits creating Facebook accounts in the hopes of luring supporters. These stories have been published, discussed, extolled, and derided, but have not yet been viewed holistically as a new field of human endeavor. We call this field "digital activism" and its dynamics, practices, misconceptions, and possible futures are presented together for the first time in this book."--Pub. desc.