The Colonizing Self

Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine

Hagar Kotef (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478011330 (ISBN)

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Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers in the Americas and Australia dwell and thrive on expropriated indigenous lands. In The Colonizing Self Hagar Kotef traces the cultural, political, and spatial apparatuses that enable people and nations to settle on the ruins of other people's homes. Kotef demonstrates how the mass and structural modes of violence that are necessary for the establishment and sustainment of the colony dwell within settler-colonial homemaking, and through it shape collective and individual identities. She thus powerfully shows how the possibility to live amid the destruction one generates is not merely the possibility to turn one's gaze away from violence but also the possibility to develop an attachment to violence itself. Kotef thereby offers a theoretical framework for understanding how settler-colonial violence becomes inseparable from one's sense of self.

Hagar Kotef is Associate Professor in Political Theory and Comparative Political Thought at SOAS University of London and author of Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, also published by Duke University Press.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Home 1
Theoretical Overview: Violent Attachments 29
Part I. Homes
Interlude. Home/Homelessness: A Reading in Arendt 55
1. The Consuming Self: On Locke, Aristotle, Feminist Theory, and Domestic Violences 73
Epilogue. Unsettlement 109
Part II. Relics
Interlude. A Brief Reflection on Death and Decolonization 127
2. Home (and the Ruins That Remain) 137
Epilogue. A Phenomenology of Violence: Ruins 185
Part III. Settlement
Interlude. A Moment of Popular Culture: The Home of MasterChef 203
3. On Eggs and Dispossession: Organic Agriculture and the New Settlement Movement 215
Epilogue. An Ethic of Violence: Organic Washing 251
Conclusion 261
Bibliography 267
Index 293

Erscheinungsdatum	09.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Theory in Forms
Zusatzinfo	21 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781478011330 / 9781478011330
Zustand	Neuware