Dimensions of everyday resistance: the PalestinianSumūd

Abstract

This article applies our earlier proposed theoretical framework on everyday resistance in the case of Palestinian Sumūd (steadfastness) in relation to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Our original framework rests on the dimensions of: (I) repertoires of everyday resistance; (II) relationships of agents; as well as the (III) spatialization and (IV) temporalization of everyday resistance. The already existing complex theoretical debates as well as the rich body of empirical work regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict give us an opportunity to illustrate and explore the possibilities as well as the limits of the proposed framework. Our hope is that in this way, we encourage more systematic research on and a more nuanced understanding of everyday resistance.

Unsettling Start-Up Ecosystems: Geographies, Mobilities, and Transnational Literacies in the Palestinian Start-Up Ecosystem

“…More centrally undergirding these rhetorical moves was a key cultural frame sumud (Johansson & Vinthagen, 2015; Nijmeh, 2018; Roy, 2016; Taraki, 2008). The concept is grounded in the notion that to remain on the land is a political statement and refusal to be passively or forcibly removed.…”

The moment to come: geographies of hope in the hyperprecarious sites of occupied Palestine

“…For Kefah, it is clear that olive trees embody the struggle of the Palestinian people, and that hope for both Kefah and Nidal is a paraphrase of, or consonant with a Palestinian proverb -we are staying, we are staying, as long as za'atar and olive remainin a way that is part of their everyday life. Such persistency, therefore, is not merely about drawing on political discourses tied to Palestinian sumud (steadfastness), which the PLO (re)introduced as a political term during the 1970s and 80s to emphasize the importance of Palestinians resisting forced expulsions by staying in their land (see Johanson and Vinthagen 2015), and which more recently has been reframed as a more active way of resisting the occupation (See Hammami 2004;Leshem 2015). Instead, we argue, such persistency is a practice of everyday life -a way of sticking to what is elementally different than the occupation; of saving and maintaining, by a way of living and acting a different way-of-life, what the hyperprecarities of the occupation aim to eliminate and hamper.…”

The Role of Internal Third-Party Interveners in Civil Resistance Campaigns: The Case of Israeli-Jewish Anti-Occupation Activists

“…A number of studies have documented and analysed the non-violent resistance efforts of the Palestinians (Darweish and Rigby 2015; Hallward 2009, 2011; Hallward and Norman 2011; Johansson and Vinthagen 2015; Kaufman-Lacusta 2010; Norman 2010; Rigby 1991). These will provide useful additional information on the case studies chosen for this study, particularly Maia Carter Hallward's (2009) analysis of the joint action in Bil'in, where she identifies the strategic value of the ‘joint struggle’.…”