Palestine up in Arms: Contentious Politics and the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939

武装起来的巴勒斯坦：有争议的政治和 1936-1939 年的阿拉伯起义

• 批准号: 2901774
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2901774
• 关键词: Palestine; up; Arms; Contentious; Politics

Summary (no more than 500 words) From Zimbabwe to Algeria, the 20th century witnessed an outpouring of revolutionary movements across the Third World attempting to assert their national claims to statehood in the face of crumbling European empires. Yet, what separates nationalist movements that succeed from those that fail? How important are localised dynamics between claimants in the study of contentious episodes like revolutions? Using the case study of the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt in the British Mandate of Palestine, I attempt to examine the failure of revolutionary movements in yielding significant political advances for their respective anticolonial nationalist causes. Building upon studies of contentious politics that highlight the dynamic and relational nature of episodes of contention, such as revolution, I seek to analyse the processual and situational mechanisms at play in failed "revolutionary situations", such as the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt. I attempt to consider the relationship between the various claimants - elites, rural peasantry, urban workers, as well as the British and Zionists - as dialogic and ever-evolving. By doing so, I seek to examine how repression and conciliation pattern mobilisation and relationships between claimants during contentious episodes, ultimately asserting that overwhelming repression on its own is unable to account for the failure of revolutionary nationalist movements. Instead, for repression to neuter such movements, it must act at the relational level and disturb existing or developing cracks between claimants, for example by stoking intra-elite conflict or turning elites into oppositional targets for other social groups. The Palestine-Israel conflict remains an ever-present political fixture on both the regional and global stages. The protests and violence of May 2021 across Israel and the Occupied Territories, termed the Unity Intifada, have arguably shifted the political status quo within the nexus of the Palestine-Israel conflict. When combined with the recent election of the most right-wing government in Israeli history, comprising members of the radical Kahanist movement, the stage appears set for a Third Intifada. My intended project provides a valuable quantitative historical analysis of the first major incidence of nationalist Palestinian collective action. In so doing, this project contributes to the nascent, but growing, field of historical political economy, which seeks to explore theoretical conjectures in a historically situated manner. By analysing this historically and symbolically significant case of Palestinian collective action, my proposal expands our understanding of the effects of variable levels of repression upon mobilisation and relationships between contentious actors.

从津巴布韦到阿尔及利亚，世纪见证了第三世界革命运动的爆发，他们试图在欧洲帝国崩溃的情况下维护自己的国家主权。然而，民族主义运动的成功与失败有何区别？在研究革命等有争议的事件时，索赔人之间的局部动态有多重要？我试图通过对1936-1939年英国巴勒斯坦托管地阿拉伯起义的案例研究，考察革命运动在为其各自的反殖民民族主义事业取得重大政治进展方面的失败。基于对有争议的政治的研究，突出了动态和相关的性质的事件的争论，如革命，我试图分析在失败的“革命情况”，如1936年至1939年的阿拉伯起义中发挥作用的过程和情境机制。我试图把各种主张者--精英、农民、城市工人以及英国人和犹太复国主义者--之间的关系看作是对话性的和不断发展的。通过这样做，我试图研究如何镇压和和解模式的动员和索赔人之间的关系在有争议的事件，最终断言，压倒性的镇压本身是无法解释的革命民族主义运动的失败。相反，镇压要使这些运动中性化，就必须在关系层面上采取行动，扰乱诉求者之间已经存在或正在形成的裂痕，例如，通过煽动精英内部冲突或将精英变成其他社会群体的反对目标。巴以冲突仍然是区域和全球舞台上一个始终存在的政治问题。2021年5月在以色列和被占领土上发生的抗议和暴力事件，被称为团结起义，可以说改变了巴以冲突核心内的政治现状。再加上最近选举产生了以色列历史上最右翼的政府，其中包括激进的卡汉运动成员，第三次起义的舞台似乎已经准备好了。我打算的项目提供了一个有价值的定量历史分析的第一次重大事件的民族主义巴勒斯坦集体行动。在这样做的过程中，这个项目有助于新生的，但不断增长的，历史政治经济学领域，它试图探索理论的历史定位的方式。通过分析这一具有历史意义和象征意义的巴勒斯坦集体行动案例，我的提议扩大了我们对不同程度的镇压对有争议的行为者之间的动员和关系的影响的理解。