The Political and Economic Context of Home Care Work in California

This article sheds new light on the political history of legal-constitutional developments in Palestine in the fourteen years following the Oslo Accord. It examines the relationship between the unfolding social, political, and economic context in which they arose, on the one hand, and PA law-making and legal praxis, on the other. Focusing on the evolution of the Palestinian Basic Law and constitutional regime, the author argues that the “Palestinian constitutional process” was a major “battlefield” for the actors of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Thus, changes in the actors' political strategies at various junctures were mirrored in legal-constitutional forms, specifically in the political structure of the PA. In that sense, the constitutional order can be understood as a sort of “metaphoric representation” of Palestinian politics, reflecting, among other things, the colonial nature of the Palestinian context that the Oslo process only rearticulated. This perspective is also essential for understanding the evolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after Oslo.

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Resilience in Practice: Responding to the Refugee Crisis in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon

Politics and Governance ◽

10.17645/pag.v8i4.3090 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 294-305 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rosanne Anholt

Keyword(s):

Crisis Management ◽

Vulnerable Populations ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

Large Scale ◽

Critical Reflection ◽

Crisis Response ◽

The Political ◽

Refugee Crisis ◽

Economic Context ◽

Self Reliance

Little is known about how the idea of ‘resilience’ translates into practice. It has nonetheless emerged as a dominant theme in the governance of crises, such as political instability, armed conflict, terrorism, and large-scale refugee movements. This study draws on interviews with humanitarian and development practitioners in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon working under the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan to explore how resilience is interpreted and translated on the ground. Results suggest that resilience is translated as the economic self-reliance of refugees, and the capacity for crisis management of refugee-hosting states, enacted through ‘localization’ and strengthening the ‘humanitarian-development nexus.’ The prominence of the political and economic context and the power relations between crisis response actors that it generates reveals the limits of what a buzzword like resilience can achieve on the ground. The findings highlight the need for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to engage in continuous critical reflection on whether the ways in which resilience policies and programmes are implemented actually improve the ability of systems and vulnerable populations to recover from crisis, as well as on the validity of the assumptions and interpretations on which such policies and programmes are built.

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The Political Economic Context of EU Crises

The European Union in Crisis ◽

10.1057/978-1-137-60427-9_3 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 33-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Desmond Dinan ◽

Neill Nugent ◽

WilliamE. Paterson

Keyword(s):

The Political ◽

Economic Context ◽

Political Economic

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‘Blow Your Trumpets, Angels!’: Jeremy Goldstein and Truth to Power Café

Performing Ethos International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance ◽

10.1386/peet_00017_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 57-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

James Jarrett

Keyword(s):

Political Activism ◽

Safe Space ◽

The Political ◽

Subjective Character ◽

Call To Action ◽

Art And Politics ◽

The Public ◽

Economic Context ◽

Theatre Production ◽

Public Nature

In the years since his death, some of the most important new areas of enquiry in Pinter studies have centred on the artistic works inspired by this major dramatist. One such endeavour is a new theatre production entitled Truth to Power Café. Truth to Power Café has been written and devised by the artist and producer Jeremy Goldstein. Goldstein’s work is a blend of poetry, performance and storytelling – an exploration of his own hidden history, and an articulation of his own ambivalent feelings. Even though Pinter contended that art and politics were irreconcilable, the argument of this paper is that Truth to Power Café represents an attempt by Goldstein to generate a synthesis between the artistic and the political: to reconcile the subjective character of art with the public nature of political activism; to mobilize the power of the theatre to enable the oppressed to break through the ritualistic ‘habits of lying’ that protect the powerful, and to discover a form of theatre where the audience can articulate themselves with ‘honesty’ and ‘precision’. Goldstein reconceptualizes the theatre as a ‘safe space’, where audience members can speak out against oppressive forces. Goldstein’s performance is a ‘call to action’. Each life testimony mediates between Goldstein’s lyrical psycho-biography, and the audience’s reception of his presentation, situating each regional performance of Truth to Power Café in its social, historical, and economic context. Goldstein achieves his objective by interweaving the personal, the private and the artistic with the public, the political and the historical.

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