Forms of Sumud in the Jordan Valley

Abstract

This paper focuses on the daily practices of Palestinians to resist the advancement of the Zionist settler colonial project of elimination in the Jordan Valley, Palestine. The analysis attempts to unfold the continuities and transformations of sumud throughout generations by examining the role of internal and external dynamics in shaping the modes of local everyday resistance. Placing Jordan Valley Palestinian youth, farmers, shepherds and activists interviewed at the core of the production of knowledge, this dissertation underlines the role of the multiform resistance of peasants in countering the advancement of colonisation in rural Palestine.