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OverviewColonizers 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hagar KotefPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781478010289ISBN 10: 1478010282 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 18 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 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 293ReviewsThis sophisticated, beautifully written, and harrowing book upends a great many comfortable myths. Hagar Kotef theorizes the violent process through which homes, relics and ruins, organic farming, and even convivial hospitality become not just the milieu of struggle, but the very sites through which the settler colonial force of the Israeli state expands and consolidates its power. -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London Hagar Kotef has written a fierce, rigorous, intimate, unrelenting, account of settler colonialism. We who make our homes on stolen land live in the crevices of all-too-concrete structures of oppression. We turn our faces to the wall. Kotef faces what we too often ignore. This may be harshest in Israel where Kotef's book is set, but the import of the work goes beyond that site. Perhaps all homes are built on cruel exclusions and indefensible claims. Perhaps all homes shelter cruelties. Hagar Kotef's ability to raise these unsettling questions is admirable for its intellectual clarity and its courage. -- Anne Norton, author of * On the Muslim Question * An incredibly detailed and engaging study that illustrates Palestinian erasure from within the settler consciousness, the book brings forth an understanding from within that does much to bring the Palestinian trauma to the fore. * Middle East Monitor * This sophisticated, beautifully written, and harrowing book upends a great many comfortable myths. Hagar Kotef theorizes the violent process through which homes, relics and ruins, organic farming, and even convivial hospitality become not just the milieu of struggle, but the very sites through which the settler colonial force of the Israeli state expands and consolidates its power. -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London Hagar Kotef has written a fierce, rigorous, intimate, unrelenting, account of settler colonialism. We who make our homes on stolen land live in the crevices of all-too-concrete structures of oppression. We turn our faces to the wall. Kotef faces what we too often ignore. This may be harshest in Israel where Kotef's book is set, but the import of the work goes beyond that site. Perhaps all homes are built on cruel exclusions and indefensible claims. Perhaps all homes shelter cruelties. Hagar Kotef's ability to raise these unsettling questions is admirable for its intellectual clarity and its courage. -- Anne Norton, author of * On the Muslim Question * Hagar Kotef has written a fierce, rigorous, intimate, unrelenting, account of settler colonialism. We who make our homes on stolen land live in the crevices of all too concrete structures of oppression. We turn our faces to the wall. Kotef faces what we too often ignore. This may be harshest in Israel where Kotef's book is set, but the import of the work goes beyond that site. Perhaps all homes are built on cruel exclusions and indefensible claims. Perhaps all homes shelter cruelties. Hagar Kotef's ability to raise these unsettling questions is admirable for its intellectual clarity and its courage. -- Anne Norton, author of * On the Muslim Question * This sophisticated, beautifully written, and harrowing book upends a great many comfortable myths. Hagar Kotef theorizes the violent process through which homes, relics and ruins, organic farming, and even convivial hospitality become not just the milieu of struggle, but the very sites through which the settler colonial force of the Israeli state expands and consolidates its power. -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London Author InformationHagar 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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