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Decolonising geographical knowledges
2017
This piece provides an overview of decolonising approaches for geographers unfamiliar with the field, first by examining some of the ways in which decolonial scholarship seeks to build on — and go beyond — postcolonialism. Developing these points, it turns to discuss what it means to think about decolonising geography at this particular political, institutional and historical conjuncture, examining the urgencies and challenges associated in this moment particularly for British geography. The introductory intervention then moves to examine how the remaining intervention pieces understand and address the theme of decolonial scholarship and geography.
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Colonizing Palestine
2023
Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements,
Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on
Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until the tumultuous end of the
British Mandate, movement settlers voiced support for a binational
Jewish-Arab state and officially opposed mass displacement of
Palestinians. But, Hashomer Hatzair colonies were also active
participants in the process that ultimately transformed large
portions of Palestine into sovereign Jewish territory. Areej
Sabbagh-Khoury investigates this ostensible dissonance, tracing how
three colonies gained control of land and their engagement with
Palestinian inhabitants on the edges of the Jezreel Valley/Marj Ibn
'Amer.
Based on extensive empirical research in local colony and
national archives, Colonizing Palestine offers a
microhistory of frontier interactions between Zionist settlers and
indigenous Palestinians within the British imperial field. Even as
left-wing kibbutzim of Hashomer Hatzair helped lay the groundwork
for settler colonial Jewish sovereignty, its settlers did not
conceal the prior existence of the Palestinian villages and their
displacement, which became the subject of enduring debate in the
kibbutzim. Juxtaposing history and memory, examining events in
their actual time and as they were later remembered, Sabbagh-Khoury
demonstrates that the dispossession and replacement of the
Palestinians in 1948 was not a singular catastrophe, but rather a
protracted process instituted over decades. Colonizing
Palestine traces social and political mechanisms by which
forms of hierarchy, violence, and supremacy that endure into the
present were gradually created.
Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Survival in Israel/Palestine
Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of Israel/Palestine from land and space to time, she offers new insight into the operation of power in agrarian environments and develops a contemporary framework to understand land and resource grabs under temporal justifications. Traveling across both policymaking arenas and Palestinian citizens' agrarian fields, Gutkowski follows the multiple ways that state officials, agronomists, planners, environmentalists, and agriculturalists use time as a tool of collective agency. Through investigations of wetland drainage in Galilee, transformations in olive agriculture, sustainable agrarian development, and regulation of the shmita biblical commandment, the \"year of release\" for agricultural fields, this work highlights how Palestinian citizens' agriculture has become a site for the state to settle and mediate time conflicts to justify its existence. As Struggling for Time demonstrates, time politics will take on ever greater urgency as societies and governments plan for an uncertain future in our era of climate change.
Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession
2022
This article extends critical trends of citizenship studies and the theory of accumulation by dispossession to articulate how settler colonial citizenship is instantiated through the active accrual of land and resources and how the emerging settler colonial citizenship entrenches both structural subjugation and resistance. The article then examines the reformation of the boundaries of citizenship through indigenous agency. I do so through examining the Palestinian citizens in Israel, specifically centering the Internally Displaced Persons—Palestinians who received Israeli citizenship even as they were displaced from their places of origin. I conclude by asserting citizenship’s double paradox in settler colonial contexts: It regulates certain rights and mobilities but simultaneously entraps the indigenous in a structure in which recursive accumulation is constitutive, thus entrenching dispossession and the further loss of collective rights and other claims.
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Encountering Palestine
2023
Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial
Violence , edited by Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, sits at
the intersection of cultural and political geographies and offers
innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism
in contemporary Palestine and Israel. Organized around the theme of
encountering and focusing on the ways violence and struggle are
un/made in the encounter between the colonizer and colonized, the
essays focus on power relations as they manifest in cultural
practices and everyday lives in anti/colonial Palestine. Covering
numerous sites in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel,
Encountering Palestine addresses a range of empirical
topics-from marriage and queer aesthetics to policing, demolition,
armament failure, and violence. The contributors utilize diverse
theoretical frameworks, such as hyperreality, settler capitalism,
intimate biopolitics, and politics of vulnerability, to help us
better understand the cultural making and unmaking of colonial and
anti-colonial space in Palestine. Encountering Palestine
asks us to rethink how colonialism and power operate in Palestine,
the ways Palestinians struggle, and the lifeways that constantly
encounter, un/make, and counter the spaces of colonial violence.
Colonisation, racism and indigenous health
2016
In settler-colonies such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, the historical impacts of colonisation on the health, social, economic and cultural experiences of Indigenous peoples are well documented. However, despite being a commonly deployed trope, there has been scant attention paid to precisely how colonial processes contribute to contemporary disparities in health between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in these nation-states. After considering pertinent issues in defining indigeneity, this paper focuses on operationalising colonisation as a driver of indigenous health, with reference to emerging concepts such as historical trauma. Conceptualisations of coloniality vis-à-vis health and their critiques are then examined alongside the role of racism as an intersecting and overlapping phenomenon. To conclude, approaches to understanding and explaining Indigenous disadvantage are considered alongside the potential of decolonisation, before exploring ramifications for the future of settler-indigenous relations.
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Settler Colonialism in Early American History: Introduction
This Forum on settler colonialism in early American history features contributions from Ashley Glassburn, Allan Greer, Tiya Miles, Jeffrey Ostler, Susanah Shaw Romney, Nancy Shoemaker, Stephanie E. Smallwood, Jennifer M. Spear, Samuel Truett, and Michael Witgen.
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Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality
2023
This article looks at Ashkenazi-operated hotels in Tiberias, Beirut, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere, in the late Ottoman period and under British rule, to consider the confusing ambiguities that these stories reveal. Ashkenazi presence in Palestine is typically understood in terms of either the pious, zealot pilgrims, or the nationalist settlers. And yet the story of the hotel owners and operators could also fit into a different category, that of migrants, who sought to integrate within existing social, economic, and political structures. The tourism and hospitality industry, which relied on flows of people across borders and on a diverse customer-base, was to some degree at odds with the segregation associated with Zionist Yishuv. Such stories, which have been forgotten and erased by the history of Palestine in the twentieth century, prompt us to rethink our understanding of Ashkenazi history in the region.
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Unsettling Brazil
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Poets, Desirée
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Black people-Brazil-History
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Brazil-Ethnic relations-History
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Brazil-Race relations-History
2024
Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities' responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil.Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the author tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte Unsettling Brazil offers a powerful account of five urban Indigenous and.
Fighting Invasive Infrastructures
2018
In the settler colonial context of so-called Canada, oil and gas projects are contemporary infrastructures of invasion. This article tracks how the state discourse of “critical infrastructure” naturalizes the environmental destruction wrought by the oil and gas industry while criminalizing Indigenous resistance. I review anthropological work to analyze the applicability of the concept of infrastructure to Indigenous struggles against resource extraction. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Indigenous land defense movements against pipeline construction, I argue for an alternative approach to infrastructure that strengthens and supports the networks of human and other-than-human relations that continue to make survival possible for Indigenous peoples.
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