The Banality of Occupation: Law, Control, and Resistance in Israel-Palestine
How does law function as a tool of control in Israel-Palestine? Specifically, in what ways are military, civil, and administrative law used to legitimize occupation policies? 听At the same time, to what extent听can international law function as a framework for resistance? 听By investigating these questions, this study applies a legal lens to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to better understand the potential of law in both sustaining and challenging the occupation.
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Julie M. Norman is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. 听She is the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: Civil Resistance (Routledge 2010) and a听co-editor of Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada: Activism and Advocacy (Palgrave 2011), and she also writes on media activism and international law in Israel-Palestine. 听Julie is a coordinator and media听trainer with Voices Beyond Walls, a participatory media project in the West Bank, and she has worked on several documentary films in the region. 听Julie has a PhD in International Relations from American University in听Washington, DC, with concentrations in Human Rights and International Peace and Conflict Resolution.