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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pogodda, Sandra
• Richmond, Oliver P.

Titel

Palestinian unity and everyday state formation: subaltern 'ungovernmentality' versus elite interests

Ist Teil von

• Third world quarterly, 2015-05, Vol.36 (5), p.890-907

Ort / Verlag

London: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.