Pub Date : 2019-03-26DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594613
Sarah Irving
Tourist guides to colonised territories are usually understood as instruments of the coloniser, imposing ideas of native inferiority through orientalism and convictions of primitiveness. This artic...
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Pub Date : 2019-03-21DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594615
Christopher Wilson
Although much has been written about counterinsurgency, policing, and incarceration under the British mandate in Palestine, little work has been done on those who entered the ambit of the carceral system as ‘criminal lunatics’. Criminal lunatics – the term used at the time to specifically designate those found ‘guilty but insane’ by the mandate’s criminal courts, and retained throughout this article both for the sake of analytic clarity and to avoid misdiagnosing individuals by the retrospective imposition of contemporary medical terms – confounded the mandatory government by potentially falling under the responsibility of both its criminal-legal and medical wings. While the focus in the wider scholarship on psychiatry has often been on its expansionist appetites, the struggle over responsibility for criminal lunatics in mandate Palestine offers a case study in the reverse; an attempt to abdicate, not aggrandise, as the health department staved off repeated efforts to make them take responsibility for these cases. This article traces these disputes, and the development of a distinct institutional landscape attendant on their outcome. But the fate of criminal lunatics was not merely determined by debates internal to government; families were important interlocutors too, who variously sought the release of their incarcerated mentally ill relatives, or – more worryingly for the mandate – exploited the criminal-legal system as a back-door to the overcrowded and underfunded government mental institutions. Far from seeing psychiatry as a tool of social control, the government expressed concern about the potential misuse of psychiatric ideas, processes, and institutions by Palestinian families as a way to escape obligations to mentally ill relatives. Foregrounding these fraught contestations brings into focus the sharp limits of the mandate’s ambitions in the sphere of the intimate, and the attempts of some Palestinians to expand those limits for their own ends.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-19DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594612
M. Hillel
ABSTRACTThis article explores the cultural transformation that unfolded in urban centres in Palestine during the British Mandate period. Focusing on the city of Haifa as a case study, the article s...
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1596568
J. Renton
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594618
Lauren Banko
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Pub Date : 2018-12-10DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2018.1554233
Rahaf Aldoughli
This article investigates the relationship between the construction of masculinist national identity and the perpetuation of nationalist songs after the ascendance of the Syrian Bath regime. Popula...
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2018.1501969
Vasiliki Touhouliotis
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2018.1532573
Ann-Christin Wagner
ABSTRACTMafraq, a Jordanian border town, has been profoundly reshaped by the influx of Syrian refugees since 2011. As aid agencies were initially absent from the humanitarian response, the gap was ...
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2018.1525242
Yafa Shanneik
Since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011, more than 750,000 Syrians (UNHCR, 2018. Fact Sheet. Available from: https://reliefweb.int/report/jordan/unhcr-jordan-factsheet-february-2018 [Accessed ...
{"title":"Islamic studies and the arts: new research methodologies in working with refugees in Jordan","authors":"Yafa Shanneik","doi":"10.1080/20581831.2018.1525242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2018.1525242","url":null,"abstract":"Since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011, more than 750,000 Syrians (UNHCR, 2018. Fact Sheet. Available from: https://reliefweb.int/report/jordan/unhcr-jordan-factsheet-february-2018 [Accessed ...","PeriodicalId":53143,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Levant","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20581831.2018.1525242","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42629772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2018.1541529
Dalia Said Mostafa
ABSTRACTThis article discusses shifting narratives of the police in Egyptian cinema before and after the 2011 revolution. It contextualises cinematic representations in a broad socio-historical fra...
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