Boycott!

The Academy and Justice for Palestine

Sunaina Maira (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29489-9 (ISBN)

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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the US in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of that movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? These key questions and others are answered in this essential short book. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the US as well as Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement's implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization and neoliberal capitalism.

Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Overview
Introduction

1. Boycott as Tactic
Here and There
2. The Academic Boycott Movement
3. Backlash
The Boycott and the Culture/Race Wars
4. Academic Abolitionism
Boycott as Decolonization

Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present ; 4
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-29489-0 / 0520294890
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29489-9 / 9780520294899
Zustand	Neuware