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Conceptual and Methodological Approaches to Reading the Realm of Cooperatives in Occupied Palestine

Autor*innen: AbdulMajeed, Ayman
https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-34-1-35
Volume XXXIV • Issue 1 • 2018
Seiten 35-61
Keywords: agricultural cooperatives, roots of change, alternative methods of development, colonialism, culture of change

Abstract

In his book Victims of Development, Jeremy Seabrook analyses and criticises the impact of development on local populations, which brought to mind the Palestinian development conditions and prompted this important contextual and methodical study of Palestinian cooperatives as alternative methods of development that arose within the context of living under global colonial conditions. Several controversial questions came out of this study of cooperatives. The most crucial issues in the debate are whether to surrender to that reality and de facto context, or attempt to change it; to become captive to consumerism or redeem production that is based on experience and expertise, and whether to give in to individualism that undermines self-reliance or revert to productive collective action. The study also raises the critical question of whether to accept the loss of local experiences and valuable initiatives instead of moving into the path of empowerment and change. These are the actualities and alternatives for change revealed through the methodological conceptual approach of this study within a critical reading of the experience of cooperatives in a colonial context.

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