The Colonizing Self
Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
1st Edition
Published on 2. November 2020
320 pages
978-1-4780-1286-3 (ISBN)
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Hagar Kotef explores the cultural, political, spatial, and theoretical mechanisms that enable people and nations to settle on the ruins of other people's homes, showing how settler-colonial violence becomes inseparable from one's sense of self.
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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.
Content
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
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
