Occupation Studies: Theorizing and analyzing a new reality

Tel Aviv Review

English - September 11, 2015 16:00 - 21 minutes - 10.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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Dr. Hilla Dayan, a sociologist at Amsterdam University College in the Netherlands, is working to lay the theoretical and institutional foundations for the establishment of a new academic discipline, 'Occupation Studies' - in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, of course. She tells host Gilad Halpern what needs this discipline is designed to address, and what analytic void it's intended to fill, inside Israeli academia and beyond.

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