ISBN:
9781501752766
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (186 p)
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12 b&w halftones
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2020
Keywords:
Israelis Colonization
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Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 21st century
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HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine
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Liberation, Hamas, Coexistence of the antocolonial and postcolonial, colinization, settler colonialism
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Decolonizing Palestine -- 2. On the Settler Colonial Elimination of Palestine -- 3. Palestinian Postcoloniality -- 4. Anticolonial Violence and the Palestinian Struggle to Exist -- 5. Postcolonial Governance -- 6. The Palestinian Moment of Liberation -- 7. On Liberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, he examines the two seemingly contradictory, yet coexistent anticolonial and postcolonial modes of politics adopted by Hamas following the organization's unexpected victory in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election.Despite the expectations of experts, Hamas has persisted as both an armed resistance to Israeli settler colonial rule and as a governing body. Based on ethnographic material collected between 2013 and 2016 in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel, and Egypt, Decolonizing Palestine argues that the puzzle Hamas presents is not rooted in predicting the timing or process of its abandonment of either role. The challenge instead lies in explaining how and why it maintains both, and what this implies for the study of liberation movements and postcolonial studies more generally
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781501752766
URL:
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