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Lowrance, Sherry. "Being Palestinian in Israel: Palestinian Identity and Political Action in a Nationalizing State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69456_index.html>

Lowrance, S. R. , 2005-03-05 "Being Palestinian in Israel: Palestinian Identity and Political Action in a Nationalizing State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69456_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: My paper will tackle the issue of ethnic identity and political action in the context of a nationalizing (Brubaker 1996) state. A nationalizing state may be procedurally democratic but nonetheless illiberal (Zakaria 1997), using the tyranny of a nationalist majority to mold the state in the image of the dominant ethnic group. The state is identified as belonging to the dominant ethnic group, and as a result the policies of the state are designed to serve its interests, usually at the expense of the minority. Extensive political, social and economic grievances emerge among the minority, and perhaps more importantly, an affective identification with the state is lacking that could serve to bind the minority to the state and its goals. Nationalizing states are particularly numerous in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, though they exist elsewhere, such as Israel in the Middle East, which serves as the case under scrutiny in my paper. The nationalizing state has crucial implications for ethnic mobilization and unconventional forms of political participation. Ethnic minorities' lack of affective identification with the state may free individuals to challenge the political and economic system that perpetuates their subordination. In cases where conventional political participation is ineffective, unconventional means may be used. My paper focuses on unconventional political behavior, such as mass protest and vote boycotts, that can be considered to be system-challenging (Binder 1962). I investigate political behavior at the individual level, in order to determine why some individuals engage in system-challenging action while others do not, given the same environment of institutional discrimination. In order to carry out this project, I constructed a survey that was administered in Israel by well-established research organizations to nationally representative samples of 1202 Arab Israelis and 503 Jewish Israelis. I supplement this data set with information gathered from over 50 interviews with Arab leaders, activists and academics in Israel to further illuminate the mobilizational context of ethnic-based action. Preliminary findings indicate that both individual self-identification preferences - in my case study, the extent of Palestinian identification among Israel's Arab minority - and ethnic-based grievances significantly impact the likelihood of engaging in system-challenging political action. In Israel, both Palestinian identity and ethnic grievances emphasize the historical and current injustices suffered by the Palestinian people by the Zionist movement, and indicate some degree of opposition to Zionism, upon which the nationalizing character of the Israeli state is based. Although straightforward expectations would suggest that the more aggrieved a person is, the more likely s/he will engage in protest or related political behavior (Gurr 1970), my preliminary findings indicate that one's identity plays a key conditioning role in the grievance - action process. For those individuals who identify with the state and its goals (as Israeli), grievances have a relatively small impact on system-challenging behavior. This suggests that affective identification with the state - through meaningful Israeli identities - may be essential for reducing or preventing ethnic conflict. The converse also applies: for those who identify with anti-establishment identities (as Palestinian), grievances play a very large role in promoting system challenging behavior. This finding suggests that the state can play an important role in promoting ethnic stability by cultivating favorable identification among minority groups. My paper will therefore address issues in the growing literature regarding ethnic stability and the management of ethnic conflict.

Do economic, political and cultural differentials between different ethnic groups in a country cause protest, rebellion and communal conflict along ethnic lines?

Who Protests in Israel? Palestinian Identity and Political Action