Introduction -- Backgrounds : fieldwork and Palestinians in Israel -- New venues : nongovernmental organizations and social change -- Activism : support, conflict, and ideas -- Two tales of a city : history, space, and identity -- Honor, land, and protest -- (Re)producing honor : gender, family, and violence -- Difficult modernity : rights, citizenship, and the state
Summary
This book, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel. It concentrates on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructions of modernity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index
