Research Project Entangled Histories of Palestine and the Global New Left

Project Duration: 09/01/2019 - 09/01/2022

This project analyzes the Palestinian liberation movement in its global encounters with the New Left, from the 1967 Six-Day War to the PLO’s exit from Beirut in 1982. The aim is to understand the level of exchange, conversation, and mutual impact, and to what extent a global political imagination developed. The results can help us reassess the way different local struggles shaped a global political movement. Three project researchers with Arabic, Spanish and Scandinavian language skills will examine the entanglement of people and ideas in Scandinavia, Latin America, and Palestinian camps in Lebanon and Jordan by looking at party archives, memoirs, newspapers, and by interviewing former militants. Through cooperation with international partners, the project will use the material to produce a visual mapping of networks as the basis for reconstructing detailed social histories of New Left activists and their reciprocal relations across three continents.

News

Conference Call for Papers

19 March 2021 |

Call for Papers: Towards a Global History of Solidarity Movements with Palestinians, 1950s-1980s

Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, March 3-4, 2022
Organized by Sune Haugbolle, Roskilde University, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin

Deadline for applications: June 6, 2021

Workshop: Archival Methods and Global Palestine in the 1960s and 1970s

09 December 2020 |

Cfp: workshop at Roskilde University, April 16-17, 2021

Connected Histories of Palestinian Liberation: Gender, Race and Class in the Anticolonial Imagination

16 November 2020 |

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contact

Project leader Sune Haugbølle, Professor (MSO), suneha@ruc.dk

Researchers

Sune Haugbølle, Professor (MSO), suneha@ruc.dk

Sorcha Amy McGregor Thompson, PhD student, samt@ruc.dk

Pelle Valentin Olsen, Postdoc, pvo@ruc.dk

Publications

Worldmaking in the Palestinian Radio Stations (1965-1982): Revolutionary Love and Anticolonial Afterlives
Thomson, S. A. M., 1 Mar 2022, In: The Global South. 15, 2, p. 99-116 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
A Cosmovisión of Solidarity: Anticolonial Worldmaking in Havana, Palestine and the Politics of Possibility
Thomson, S. A. M., 6 Jun 2021, In: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Borderlines.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article
Entanglement, Global History, and the Arab Left
Haugbolle, S., May 2019, In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. 51, 2, p. 301-304 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

Press-media

Mellemøstforsker viser os fortidens revolutionære
Haugbølle, S.
28/05/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media

Funding

Independent Research Fund Denmark | Social Science has supported the project with a DKK 5.9 million grant.

Insights

ARTICLE

A Middle East researcher shows us the revolutionaries of the past

Sune Haugbølle is using new sources and a large number of interviews with key persons who have so far kept silent about their past to investigate the connections between the Danish and Arab left-wing parties in the 1960s and 70s. The research can help us better understand the contemporary political activists in the Middle East.