@article{ref1,
title="Between Acceleration and Occupation: Palestine and the Struggle for Global Justice",
journal="Studies in social justice",
year="2010",
author="Collins, John",
volume="4",
number="2",
pages="-",
abstract="This article explores the contemporary politics of global violence through an examination of the particular challenges and possibilities facing Palestinians who seek to defend their communities against an ongoing settler-colonial project (Zionism) that is approaching a crisis point.  As the  colonial dynamic in Israel/Palestine returns to its most elemental level – land, trees, homes – it also continues to be a laboratory for new forms of accelerated violence whose global impact is hard to overestimate.  In such a context, Palestinians and international solidarity activists find themselves confronting a quintessential 21st century activist dilemma: how to craft a strategy of what Paul Virilio calls “popular defense” at a time when everyone seems to be implicated in the machinery of global violence? I argue that while this dilemma represents a formidable challenge for Palestinians, it also helps explain why the Palestinian struggle is increasingly able to build bridges with wider struggles for global justice, ecological sustainability, and indigenous rights.<p />",
language="",
issn="1911-4788",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}