ABSTRACT
This chapter provides sample-level findings from the Living in Mandatory Palestine study. It outlines structural dimensions of resilience that encompass social policies, power relations, and economic conditions, such as obtaining economic security through agriculture, employment and job opportunity, or establishing and influencing institutional and community structures such as courts. Power differentials account, in part, for the constraints and opportunities that people experience in each society. Referring to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Rashid Khalidi described how an "an attitude of helplessness, and a lack of Palestinian agency" began under the British Mandate. Structural resilience dimensions encompass social policies, power relations, and economic conditions; employment and job opportunity; and establishing and influencing institutional and community structures. Because the design of the Living in Mandatory Palestine study was based on previous research projects, the societal-level themes found were often replicated here.
