Decolonizing the Study of Palestine

Name: Decolonizing the Study of Palestine | Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism after Elia Zureik
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Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism after Elia Zureik

Ahmad H. Sa'di Nur Masalha(Editor)

I.B. Tauris (Publisher)

Published on 13. July 2023

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Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continue to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through Western social theories that had appeared after World War 2. This endowed European settlers and colonists the mission of guiding the "backward" natives of Palestine to modernity. However, since the work of Palestinian scholar Elia Zureik, the study of Israel, and the "ethnic relations" in Palestine-Israel has been radically shifted.

Building on Zureik's work, this book studies the colonial project in Palestine and how it has transformed Palestinians' lives. Zureik had argued that Israel was the product of a colonization process and so should be studied through the same concepts and theorization as South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, and other colonial societies. He also rejected the moral and civilizational superiority of the European settlers. Developing this work, the contributors here argue that colonialism is not only a political-economic system but also a "mode of life" and consciousness, which has far-reaching consequences for both the settlers and the indigenous population. Across 13 chapters (in addition to the introduction and the afterward), the book covers topics such as settler colonialism, dispossession, the separation wall, surveillance technologies, decolonisation methodologies and popular resistance. Composed mostly of Palestinian scholars and scholars of Palestinian heritage, it is the first book in which the indigenous Palestinians not merely "write back", but principally aim to lay the foundations for decolonial social science research on Palestine.

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This edited volume is undoubtedly an essential step in decolonizing the study of Palestine. Its richness and methodological accuracy allow us to insert it in the general debate of decolonizing academia from an Indigenous-Native perspective. * Maydan: rivista sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici * This book makes a groundbreaking contribution to both Palestine studies and settler colonial studies. The life works and scholarly legacy of Elia Zureik is essential for understanding what settler colonialism is and does Palestine. Equally, this volume forefronts Palestinian scholarly voices and, in doing so, establishes the appropriate foundations for decolonizing Palestine studies. -- Somdeep Sen, Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. A landmark volume by leading Palestinian scholars and a fitting tribute to the pioneering scholarship of the late sociologist Elia Zureik. Inspired by his insistence on the inseparability of epistemological decolonization and empirical rigor in the study of the colonial situation under which Palestinians live, diverse and eye-opening essays illuminate the value of concepts like internal colonialism while exposing the formidable technologies of rule to which they have been subjected in the past and present. * Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University *

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Introduction, Nur Masalha, SOAS, University of London, UK and Ahmad Sa'di, University of the Negev, Israel

Part One: Colonial and Decolonial: Conceptualizations of Palestine
1. Towards a Decolonization of Palestinian Studies, Ahmad Sa'di, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

2. Indigenous versus Colonial-Settler Toponymy and the Struggle over the Cultural and Political Geography of Palestine: The Appropriation of Palestinian Place-Names by the Israeli State, Nur Masalha, SOAS, University of London, UK

3. What's the Problem with the Jewish State? Raef Zreik, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel

Part Two: Zionist Settler-Colonialism: Tenets and Practices
4. The Epistemology of Zionist Settler Colonialism and the Ontological Securitization of Palestinians, Amal Jamal, Tel Aviv University, Israel

5. The Unfinished Zionist Settler-Colonial Conquest of its Elusive 'Last Frontier', and Indigenous Palestinian Bedouin Arab Resistance, Ismael Abu-Saad, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

6. The Paradox of Settler Colonial Citizenship in Israel, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

7. Celebrating Survival: Palestinian Epistemes and Resisting Anti-Palestinian Racism, Yasmeen Abu-Laban, University of Alberta, Canada

Part Three: Zionist Settler-Colonialism: Surveillance
8. Secrecy as Colonial Violence: The Case of Occupied East Jerusalem, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Queen Mary University of London, UK and Abeer Otman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

9. Israel's Telecommunications Lines and Digital Surveillance Routes, Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University, USA

Part Four: Palestine: Connections, Ruptures and Popular Resistance

10. Settler Colonialism in Palestine: Connections and Ruptures, Magid Shihade, Dar Al-Kalima University, Palestine

11. Popular Resistance in Palestine, Marwan Darweish, Coventry University, UK

Part Five: Issues of Bio-Power
12. The Effect of the Separation of the Wall on the West Bank Labour Market, Sami Miaari, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Dorde Miloslav, Trinity College, Ireland

13. Palestinian Refugee Archives UNRWA and the Problem with Sources, Salim Tamari, Birzeit University, Palestine and Eliza Zureik, Queens University, Canada

In Lieu of Afterword
14. Liminal Lights in Dark Places: Elia Zureik's Sociological and Critical Contribution to Palestinian and Surveillance Studies, David Lyon, Queen's University, Canada

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