Narratives of Palestine have always been epochal, politically charged and culturally indispensable for various identities, religions, ethnicities and civilizations. Palestine: Past, Present and Future Narratives is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary book series that critically analyses identity narratives and collective memories of Palestine. The series fosters a critical, inclusive and diverse platform for examining the ways in which past, present and future narratives of Palestine are articulated, reconfigured, broaden intellectual and public understandings, and offer a counter to Eurocentric, orientalist traditions and hegemonic modes of knowledge production about Palestine. 

By foregrounding situated, embodied, and politically committed forms of knowledge, the series offers an open space to researchers and professionals across the humanities and social sciences to provide the state of the art and most comprehensive overview of the history, culture, society, politics and geography of Palestine and how these narratives and discourses operate at local, national and transnational levels. Covering historical periods from the ancient to the contemporary, the series pays close attention to the legacies and everyday of (normative and settler) colonialism, military occupation, self-determination and how lived realities are renegotiated and reinterpreted beyond dominant binary frameworks such as “colonizer versus colonized”, “victimhood versus perpetration”, “pro- versus anti-colonial”, and “resistance versus erasure” within global academic and professional contexts.

The series’ aim is to contribute to a rigorous exchange of identity narratives and meaningful dialogue, and to explain the ambiguous and relational nature of colonial structures, cultures of remembrance and forms of exclusion, as well as the struggle for equality inside and outside of historic Palestine.

Call for book proposals

We welcome book proposals that deal with topics such as, but are not limited to, competing memories, counter heritages and contested histories, war, conflict, and violence, genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing, Palestine/Israel and (bi-)nationalism, (anti)Zionism, armed struggle, liberation and ideology, right of return, home and homeland, exile and diaspora, landscapes, dispossession and refugeeism, borders, migration and citizenship, cultures of resistance and emancipation, legal foundations and international law, economies of settler colonialism, (anti/post/de) colonization, religion and interfaith, politics of activism, social media, gender politics, trauma, mourning and reconciliation, literature, culture and art, representations, mediations and re-enactments of conflicted pasts, Palestinian Nakba, Nazi-Judeocide and Holocaust memory, weaponization of victim/perpetrator dualities, Holocaust-centered western moral order, and the diverse imaginations of radical political change and futures.