The anticolonial settler
Reflections on Citizenship, Violence and Decolonisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4524993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elian Weizman (London South Bank University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-281 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2022.2086298 |
| OpenAlex | W4282834579 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
Focusing on Israel/Palestine, this article explores the role of anticolonial settler-citizens, discussing how they may advance or impede struggles to dismantle the settler state. It shows how in settler states citizenship is founded on, and functions through, violence. It then analyses how the settler colonial condition imposes a set of paradoxes on those settler-citizens who wish to resist the colonial condition, thus limiting possibilities for settler solidarity and co-resistance. Overall, the article presents a critique of the role of citizenship in decolonisation struggles, including through the framework of ‘acts of citizenship’. It shows that the role of violence and non-violence in the (anti)colonial project is key to unravelling the impossibility of bridging the inherent fault line of being anticolonial while remaining settlers. Lessons from other past and present decolonisation struggles teach us that settler solidarity and co-resistance must centre indigenous struggles and take leadership from them, in ways accepting the uncertainty of the settlers’ future after decolonisation. Only such recognition can allow genuine allyship and solidarity and with it hope for such a future
Citizenship · Colonialism · Decolonization · Impossibility · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
The Politics of nonviolent action
Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel
Mohawk Interruptus
Citizenship as Domination
When Does a Settler Become a Native? Citizenship and Identity in a Settler Society
Settler Common Sense
The Re-Emergence of the Single State Solution in Palestine/Israel
Justice for Some
Stateless Citizenship
The Israeli Radical Left
Mapping My Return
The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism
The Transit of Empire
A Search for Sovereignty
Settler-colonial citizenship
Vulnerability as a politics of decolonial solidarity
Citizenship in flux
Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation
Reframing Bi-nationalism in Palestine-Israel as a Process of Settler Decolonisation
Violent Attachments
The Politics of Decolonisation and Bi-Nationalism in Israel/Palestine
Decolonising Israeli society? Resistance to Zionism as an educative practice
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Conceptualizing Resistance
Creating a counterhegemonic praxis
Introduction
Investigating Citizenship
The Memory of Resistance
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |