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Postcolonials: Confronting Neocolonialism (1993–2018)

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‏A set of approaches to sociology, which has emerged since the 1990s, is related to Israel’s neocolonial situation—namely, its lasting domination of the Palestinian Occupied Territories , which it captured in 1967, and related social and cultural aspects of the protracted Israeli-Arab conflict and of Israeli society. This chapter diagnoses three such approaches: A radical Mizrahi counter-orientalist sociology; Palestinian sociology in Israel; and the sociology of the Occupation.

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Ram, U. (2018). Postcolonials: Confronting Neocolonialism (1993–2018). In: Israeli Sociology. Sociology Transformed. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59327-2_9

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