Report of the Independent International Fact- Finding Mission to Investigate the Implications of the Israeli Settlements on the Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Palestinian People Throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-266 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Occupied Palestinian Territory ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Palestinian Territory ◽  
East Jerusalem

Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, Report of the Secretary-General, U.N. Doc. A/HRC/31/44

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-293
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Human Rights Council ◽  
Occupied Palestinian Territory ◽  
Palestinian Territory ◽  
The Impact ◽  
East Jerusalem

Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 28/27 on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. It presents the human rights situation through an analysis of how the occupation and associated measures restrict freedom of movement, and examines the impact of those restrictions on Palestinians’ enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights.

Consumer boycott amid conflict: The situated agency of political consumers in the occupied Palestinian territory

2019 ◽  
pp. 146954051988248
Author(s):  
Aurélie Bröckerhoff ◽  
Mufid Qassoum
Keyword(s):  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
The West ◽  
Individual Motivation ◽  
Potential Consumer ◽  
Occupied Palestinian Territory ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Consumption ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Palestinian Territory

Participation is central to the success of political consumption movements. To date, consumer research has explored participation from the lens of the individual consumer activist. In this article we argue that such actor-centric approaches that equate individual motivation and willingness of potential consumer activists with likely participation are limited because they imply consumer freedom and agency irrespective of context. By exploring political consumption amid conflict, we illustrate how a particular setting frames the behaviours and decision-making of political consumers. Drawing on findings from a study of consumer boycott as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in the West Bank (occupied Palestinian territory), we outline a set of market and societal barriers that frame the participation of potential boycotters. We show how these political, economic and sociocultural factors influence the range of possible actions for consumers and make participation more problematic, if not impossible. The findings of this study call for a need to re-evaluate how political consumption can be an oppositional or transformational practice, and support recent calls for a consideration of the roles of agency and power in consumption. To this effect, we propose the concept of ‘situated agency’ to analyse participation in political consumption that moves beyond actor-centric explanations. We hope such reconsiderations will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of participation in political consumption across different consumption contexts.

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