Abstract
With Palestine gaining increasing international recognition for its
sovereignty aspirations, this paper investigates the ongoing Palestinian
state-formation process. It examines how far grassroots movements,
domestic political leaderships and international actors have promoted
or undermined intra-Palestinian unity and societal consensus around
the rules, design and extent of a future Palestinian state. The paper
introduces the novel concept of everyday state formation as a crucial
form of grassroots agency in this process. Moreover, it illustrates the
internal tensions of contemporary statebuilding: without reconciliation
across multiple scales – local to global – the complex interactions of
structural, governmental and subaltern power tend to build societal
fragility into emerging state structures.
sovereignty aspirations, this paper investigates the ongoing Palestinian
state-formation process. It examines how far grassroots movements,
domestic political leaderships and international actors have promoted
or undermined intra-Palestinian unity and societal consensus around
the rules, design and extent of a future Palestinian state. The paper
introduces the novel concept of everyday state formation as a crucial
form of grassroots agency in this process. Moreover, it illustrates the
internal tensions of contemporary statebuilding: without reconciliation
across multiple scales – local to global – the complex interactions of
structural, governmental and subaltern power tend to build societal
fragility into emerging state structures.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 890-907 |
| Journal | Third World Quarterly |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Jun 2015 |
Keywords
- Palestine
- state formation
- grassroots agency
- Statebuilding
- governmentality
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute