Elimination Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID3000793
AuthorsIlana Feldman (0000-0002-3347-411X, corresponding author)
EditorsShamus Khan (0000-0003-0331-5000), Madiha Tahir (0000-0003-0019-9948)
Year2019
Volume31
Issue3
Pages563-580
Publication date2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/08992363-7532655
OpenAlexW2980602550
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited24

Focusing on punishment and imprisonment across three time periods, this essay explores the two-pronged attack on Palestinian politics that has characterized the settler-colonial project in Palestine over the past one hundred years. This double move entails an attempt to deny or destroy Palestinian political community, while simultaneously identifying Palestinians as political actors, specifically as bad actors. The aim is to undermine Palestinian political capacity by disrupting connection and organizing, while still deploying the weapon of categorizing Palestinians, individually and collectively, as enemies-under labels such as insurgents, terrorists, and enemy combatants. The struggle over elimination in Palestine has continued through multiple changes in governing regime and across territorial reconfigurations. The different tactics deployed against Palestinians over these decades are a product both of these changes and of the continuing Palestinian refusal to acquiesce to their elimination

Adversary · Ancient history · Colonialism · Computer security · Imprisonment · Palestine · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Political Conflict and Governance · Social Psychology