The Politics of Boycotts

Contributors to this special issue explore the global, entangled history of boycotts, from the original Captain Boycott to the struggles for justice in Israel/Palestine. Increasingly transnational and anti-imperialist, boycotts have, the contributors argue, challenged global empire through the power of refusal – a power that “no state, no corporation, no military can prevent.”

Contributors: Taha Muhammad Ali, Allyson P. Brantley, Michael Bueckert, ?Peter Cole, Ilana Feldman, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin, Peter Makhlouf, R. Joseph Parrott, Stephen Pascoe, Andrew Phemister, E. Natalie Rothman, Jeffrey Sacks, Amro Sadeldeen, Mikki Stelder, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Andrew Zimmerman