Tragic Encounters and Ordinary Ethics: Palestine-Israel in British Universities
By (Author) Ruth Sheldon
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
6th October 2016
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
306.430941
Short-listed for Shortlist British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Prize 2017 (UK)
Hardback
216
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this conflict so significant for student activists living at such a geographical distance from the region itself And what role do emotive, polarised commun
Ruth Sheldon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London