Kotef The Colonizing Self

Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1286-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

Reihe: Theory in Forms

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kotef, Hagar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.