The colonizing self, or, home and homelessness in Israel/Palestine /

The Colonizing Self examines practices of homemaking in Israel/Palestine to understand how people develop attachments to spaces of violence and how they consequently become willful participants in state violence. The author explores the cultural, political, spatial and theoretical apparatuses that e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kotef, Hagar, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2020]
Series:	Theory in forms.
Subjects:	Land settlement > West Bank. Land settlement > Social aspects > West Bank. Israelis > Colonization > West Bank. Israelis > Homes and haunts > Social aspects > West Bank. Israelis > West Bank > Social conditions.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Homes
Interlude. Home/Homelessness
Chapter 1. The Consuming Self: On Locke, Aristotle, Feminist Theory, and Domestic Violences
Epilogue. Unsettlement
Part II. Relics
Interlude. A Brief Reflection on Death and Decolonization
Chapter 2. Home (and the Ruins That Remain)
Epilogue. A Phenomenology of Violence: Ruins
Part III. Settlement
Interlude. A Moment of Popular Culture: The Home of MasterChef
Chapter 3. On Eggs and Dispossession: Organic Agriculture and the New Settlement
Movement
Epilogue. An Ethic of Violence