Transcending the Impasses: Towards an Indigenous Vision of Legality in Palestine

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dc.contributor.advisorNadler, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorAbujbara, Juman
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-08T15:41:43Z
dc.date.available2022-08-08T15:41:43Z
dc.date.copyright2021-04-19
dc.date.issued2022-08-08
dc.date.updated2022-08-08T15:41:43Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractThis thesis attempts to demonstrate that the international legal impasse surrounding Palestine is animated by incommensurable visions of legality. It argues that in portraying the Palestinian struggle for liberation as a struggle for state sovereignty, international law subjects the indigenous worldview to a violent and perpetual erasure. The thesis employs Aaron Mills' theoretical framework to argue for an incommensurability between Palestine's indigenous conception of legality and the dominant conception of legality underlying international law. Further, the thesis offers a reading of Ghassan Kanafani's novel The Other Thing to explore the consequences and normative implications of an impasse characterized by incommensurability. The key finding is that cultural artefacts are important sites of the Palestinian legal memory and are capable of uncovering Palestine's silenced vision of legality. Finally, the paper concludes that acknowledging incommensurability paves a way towards a more holistic legal imagination that contains the seeds of transcending the impasse in indigenous Palestine.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39554
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and literature
dc.subject.keywordsInternational law
dc.subject.keywordsJurisprudence
dc.subject.keywordsPhilosophy of law
dc.subject.keywordsLegality
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous legal theory
dc.subject.keywordsNative American studies
dc.subject.keywordsTurtle Island
dc.subject.keywordsAaron Mills
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous
dc.subject.keywordsPalestine
dc.subject.keywordsGhassan Kanafani
dc.subject.keywordsLayla Al-Hayek
dc.subject.keywordsMiddle Eastern Literature
dc.subject.keywordsSovereignty
dc.subject.keywordsSelf-determination
dc.subject.keywordsLiberation
dc.subject.keywordsUN partition plan
dc.subject.keywordsUNGA Resolution 181
dc.subject.keywordsIncommensurability
dc.subject.keywordsTruth
dc.subject.keywordsJustice
dc.subject.keywordsLand traditions
dc.subject.keywordsErasure
dc.subject.keywordsSilence
dc.subject.keywordsIdentity
dc.subject.keywordsBeing
dc.subject.keywordsSubaltern
dc.subject.keywordsLegal memory
dc.subject.keywordsLegal imagination
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical imagination
dc.subject.keywordsPrefiguration
dc.titleTranscending the Impasses: Towards an Indigenous Vision of Legality in Palestine
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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