From shared life to co-resistance in historic Palestine /
How do we contribute to the decolonization of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Je...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Rowman & Littlefield International,
[2018]
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| Series: | Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics.
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| Summary: | How do we contribute to the decolonization of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Jewish shared life cannot be ignored. Muslims, Christians and Jews, shared a life in Ottoman Palestine and in a different way during British rule. The attempt to eliminate native life involved the destruction of Arab society, its cultural hegemony and demographic superiority, but also the racial rejection of Arab-Jewish sociabilities, of shared life. Thus the settlerist process of dispossession of the Arabs was complemented with the destruction of the social and cultural infrastructure that made Arab-Jewish life a historical reality. Both operations formed Israeli polity. Can this understanding contribute to present-day Palestinian resistance and a politics of decolonisation? In this book, the authors address this question by exploring how the study of elimination of shared life can inform Arab-Jewish co-resistance as a way of defying Israel's Zionist regime. Above and beyond opposing an unacceptable state of affairs, this book engages with past and present to discuss possible futures. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 191 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-181) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781783489633 1783489634 9781783489640 1783489642 |