TY - CHAP
T1 - Advocacy in a bedouin resettlement project in the negev, israel
AU - Marx, Emanuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1990 by the Institute for Development Anthropology.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This chapter examines the politics of a program to resettle the Bedouin in Israel’s Negev. This experience yields insights on a theme that has recently aroused growing concern: The anthropologist as advocate. The story tells about the sociology of advocacy and about some of the difficulties attending the advocate’s work. In the fighting that accompanied the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, most of the 75,000 Negev Bedouin fled the country or went into hiding. By the 1970s, the Negev Bedouin derived only about 10 percent of their cash income from cultivation. The Bedouin have profited from the situation, although their limited schooling and vocational training have forced many of them to take the less permanent and lower paid jobs. The Bedouin realized that the Air Force was committed to beginning the construction of the airport by a specific date, and they feared that events would overtake them.
AB - This chapter examines the politics of a program to resettle the Bedouin in Israel’s Negev. This experience yields insights on a theme that has recently aroused growing concern: The anthropologist as advocate. The story tells about the sociology of advocacy and about some of the difficulties attending the advocate’s work. In the fighting that accompanied the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, most of the 75,000 Negev Bedouin fled the country or went into hiding. By the 1970s, the Negev Bedouin derived only about 10 percent of their cash income from cultivation. The Bedouin have profited from the situation, although their limited schooling and vocational training have forced many of them to take the less permanent and lower paid jobs. The Bedouin realized that the Air Force was committed to beginning the construction of the airport by a specific date, and they feared that events would overtake them.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081397564&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780429042737-11
DO - 10.4324/9780429042737-11
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AN - SCOPUS:85081397564
SN - 0813376882
SN - 9780367012878
SP - 228
EP - 244
BT - Anthropology and Development in North Africa and the Middle East
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -