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dc.contributor.advisorMcCallum, Fiona
dc.contributor.advisorLang, Anthony F.
dc.contributor.authorCoffey, Quinn
dc.coverage.spatial233 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-03T14:18:20Z
dc.date.available2016-10-03T14:18:20Z
dc.date.issued2016-11
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.694561
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9598
dc.description.abstractDespite the increasingly common situation of statelessness in the contemporary Middle East, a majority of the theoretical tools used to study nationalism are contingent upon the existence of a sovereign state. As such, they are unable to fully explain the mechanisms of national identity, political participation, and integration in non-institutional contexts, where other social identities continue to play a significant political role. In these contexts, the position of demographic minorities in society is significant, as actors with the most popular support –majorities -- tend to have the strongest impact on the shape of the political field. This thesis demonstrates what we can learn from studying the mechanisms of nationalism and political participation for one such minority group, the Palestinian Christians, particularly with regards to how national identity fails or succeeds in instilling attachment to the state and society. This is accomplished by applying the theoretical framework of social identity theory to empirical field research conducted in the West Bank in 2014, combined with an analysis of election and survey data. It is argued that the level of attachment individuals feel towards the “state” or confessional communities is dependent on the psychological or material utility gained from group membership. If individuals feel alienated from the national identity, they are more likely to identify with their confessional community. If they are alienated from both, then they are far likelier to emigrate. Additionally, I suggest that the way in which national identity is negotiated in a stateless context is important to future state building efforts, as previous attempts to integrate national minorities into the political system through, e.g., devolved parliaments and quotas, have failed to instil a universal sense of the nation.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPalestineen_US
dc.subjectChristianityen_US
dc.subjectMinorityen_US
dc.subjectArab Israeli Conflicten_US
dc.subjectIntegrationen_US
dc.subjectPolitical participationen_US
dc.subjectCitizenshipen_US
dc.subjectOrthodoxen_US
dc.subjectCatholicen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectCommunalismen_US
dc.subjectSectarianismen_US
dc.subjectEqual rightsen_US
dc.subjectReligionen_US
dc.subjectLiberal peaceen_US
dc.subjectHybrid peaceen_US
dc.subject.lccBR1107.C7
dc.subject.lcshChristians--West Banken_US
dc.subject.lcshOrthodox Eastern Church members--West Bank--Political activityen_US
dc.subject.lcshCatholics--West Bank--Political activityen_US
dc.subject.lcshNationalism--West Banken_US
dc.subject.lcshGroup identity--West Banken_US
dc.titleThe political, communal and religious dynamics of Palestinian Christian identity : the Eastern Orthodox and Latin Catholics in the West Banken_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorRussell Trusten_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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