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Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity originates from Louvet’s observation of the strong commitment of a layer of Irish civil society- from the man on the street to political parties, associations and trade unions- to the defence of one antagonist or the other in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, beginning with the Six Day War in 1967 and increasingly so after the Lebanon Wars at the start of the 1980s and the Second Intifada (2000-2005). This book observes how this phenomenon is particularly striking in Northern Ireland, where Israeli and Palestinian flags have been flown by Unionists and Nationalists as signs of solidarity and identification. Louvet sheds light on the dynamics and strategies at play in the Middle East conflict in Northern Ireland but also in the Republic of Ireland, a country considered to be widely sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. With an overarching perspective highlighting the influence of Irish colonial history over the motives and discourse of the different levels of mobilization in civil society, this book shows the global movement towards the fragmentation and specialization of transnational solidarity actions in Ireland.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Irish Civil Society and Transnational Solidarity with Palestine
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Republicanism and the Colonial Reading of the Middle East Conflict
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The book’s structure is lucid and logical: it charts the historical origins of anti-Israeli protest groups in Ireland, and the extraordinary success that small groups had in changing the public discourse from one of sympathy with Israel as another small nation to one of suspicion and overt hostility. … will be of great interest to social movement theorists as Louvet breaks new ground in uncovering the various transnational strands of activism and thought that underpin the anti-Israeli lobby in Ireland.” (Cillian McGrattan, Irish Political Studies, Vol. 33 (1), August, 2017)
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About the author
Marie-Violaine Louvet is a Lecturer at Toulouse 1-Capitole University, France. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and is a holder of the Agrégation d'anglais. She completed her PhD in 2013 at Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her research focuses on Ireland and transnational solidarity movements with the Middle East in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity
Book Subtitle: The Irish and the Middle East Conflict
Authors: Marie-Violaine Louvet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55109-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55108-5Published: 07 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55109-2Published: 28 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Conflict Studies, History of the Middle East