Verfasst von:	Allen, Lori [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	A history of false hope
Titelzusatz:	investigative commissions in Palestine
Verf.angabe:	Lori Allen
Verlagsort:	Stanford, California
Verlag:	Stanford University Press
E-Jahr:	2021
Jahr:	[2021]
Umfang:	xx, 408 Seiten
Format:	24 cm
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 327-374, Register
Ang. zum Inhalt:	Introduction: International law as a way of being
	Petitioning liberals: the King-Crane Commission
	Universalizing liberal internationalism: the Arab Revolt and the boycott of the Peel Commission
	The humanitarian politics of Jewish suffering: the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
	Third World solidarity at the General Assembly: a UN Special Committee on Human Rights
	The silences of democratic listening: The Mitchell Committee
	The shift to crime and punishment: UN missions renewing hope in international law
	Conclusion: Toward an anthropology of international law, and next time and again for Palestine
ISBN:	978-1-5036-0672-2
	978-1-5036-1418-5
Abstract:	This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations. More than twenty commissions have been convened over the last century, yet no significant change has resulted from these inquiries. The findings of the very first, the 1919 King-Crane Commission, were suppressed. The Mitchell Committee, convened in the heat of the Second Intifada, urged Palestinians to listen more sympathetically to the feelings of their occupiers. And factfinders returning from a shell-shocked Gaza Strip in 2008 registered their horror at the scale of the destruction, but Gazans have continued to live under a crippling blockade. Drawing on debates in the press, previously unexamined UN reports, historical archives, and ethnographic research, Lori Allen explores six key investigative commissions over the last century. She highlights how Palestinians' persistent demands for independence have been routinely translated into the numb language of reports and resolutions. These commissions, Allen argues, operating as technologies of liberal global governance, yield no justice--only the oppressive status quo. A History of False Hope issues a biting critique of the captivating allure and cold impotence of international law.
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781503614185.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(g)Palästina    / (g)Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete    / (s)Gremium    / (s)Gewalt    / (s)Menschenrechtsverletzung    / (z)Geschichte 1919-2009
	(s)Gremium    / (s)Ermittlungsverfahren    / (s)Internationaler Konflikt    / (s)Politik    / (s)Geschichte    / (s)Internationales Recht    / (s)Gewalt    / (s)Menschenrechtsverletzung    / (s)Gerechtigkeit    / (s)Beispiel    / (g)Palästina
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Arab-Israeli conflict
	Human rights
	Politics and government
	History
Geograph. SW:	Middle East ; Palestine
K10plus-PPN:	1755510314