The Colonizing Self

Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine

Bibliographic Data

ID19921986
AuthorsHagar Kotef (0000-0002-5481-1306, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages318
Publication date2020-11-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueColonizing Self (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781478012863
OpenAlexW3095479132
Open LibraryOL34157833M
ISBN9781478012863
LanguageEN
Citations received35

Colonizers 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

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