Partitioning solidarity : Palestine and the British left, 1923-48
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- "Partitioning Solidarity" reconstructs the debate over Palestine among the British left between 1923 and 1948, the years of the British Empire's Mandate for Palestine. it reveals that contrary to the standard narrative—that the British left at first supported Zionism before "divorcing" Israel after the 1967 Arab-Israeli—in truth the "problem of Palestine" was a source of conflict within the British left from the very beginning. There was no clear "leftist position" in these formative years; rather, individual leftists debated, negotiated, and agonized over which group in Palestine to stand in solidarity with. Driven by the particularity of events in Palestine, and of Palestine's place in the British cultural imagination, these leftists presented new possibilities for solidarity, both between the metropole and the Empire and within the British left itself. By the end of Britain's Mandate for Palestine, however, this moment had closed. This dissertation thus provides a new "origin story" for the Arab-Israeli Conflict's divisive place in the history of the British left. At the theoretical level, it argues for a renewed engagement with solidarity as an analytic historical category. Recent research on the culture of the British Empire has focused on the pervasive power of Empire in shaping the minds of Britons to view colonial subjects as "Others." While important, this body of work has made imperial power seem impenetrable and resistance to it futile. Examining how some Britons were able to form international bonds of solidarity with people whom their culture declared unknowable Others, even in the face of the culture of imperialism, allows us to probe the weaknesses of imperial discourse rather than emphasize only its power.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Klingensmith, James Meade |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Satia, Priya |
| Thesis advisor | Satia, Priya |
| Thesis advisor | Barakat, Nora |
| Thesis advisor | Como, David R, 1970- |
| Degree committee member | Barakat, Nora |
| Degree committee member | Como, David R, 1970- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | James Meade Klingensmith, Jr. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bm251yz8956 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by James Meade Klingensmith
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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