Zionist Frontiers
David Ben-Gurion, Labor Zionism, and transnational circulations of settler development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18958564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph F Getzoff (0000-0002-3254-645X, University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74-93 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Settler Colonial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1838-0743 • E-ISSN: 2201-473X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2201473x.2019.1646849 |
| OpenAlex | W2972446427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This article examines how settler colonial narratives, structures and relations constitute development. The article offers a new concept, settler development, to show how development, as a colonial template of liberal rule and economic improvement, and settler colonialism, augment and imprint each other. To understand how settler development works, I present a case study that analyzes settler texts that circulate between Zionists in the United States and in Palestine before 1948. In particular, David Ben-Gurion, leader of Jewish settlement in Palestine, and writers in the Jewish American magazine, Jewish Frontier, sought to justify settlement based on economic productivity to appeal to the British to hand over the Mandate to settlers, not indigenous Palestinians. These circulating discourses valorized the ‘pioneer’ as the quintessential subject of settler development who is assumed to have a right over indigenous land through their ability to improve economic productivity. The article combines settler colonial and critical development studies to suggest creative analyses of the way that development is epistemologically linked to the networks of settler colonialism
Archaeology · Colonialism · Economics · Frontier · Indigenous · Judaism · Literature · Mandate · Mandatory Palestine · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Zionism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Ecology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |