Traces of racial exception : racializing Israeli settler colonialism / Ronit Lentin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenṭin, Ronit, author.

Series:

Suspensions (Series)

Suspensions: contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exceptionalism.

Race relations.

Israel--History.

Israel.

History.

Israel--Race relations.

Exceptionalism--Israel.

Palestinian Arabs--Israel.

Palestinian Arabs.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 269 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by the state of Israel in racializing and ruling the citizens of occupied Palestine. Lentin argues that Israel's rule over Palestine is an example of Agamben's state of exception, Goldberg's racial state and Wolfe's settler colony; the Israeli racial settler colony employs its laws to rule besieged Palestine, while excluding itself and its Jewish citizen-colonists from legal instruments and governmental technologies. Governing through emergency legislation and through practices of exception, emergency, necessity and security, Israel positions itself outside domestic and international law. Deconstructing Agamben's Eurocentric theoretical position Lentin shows that it occludes colonialism, settler colonialism and anti-colonialism and fails to specifically foreground race; instead she combines the work of Wolfe, who proposes race as a trace of settler colonialism, and Weheliye, who argues that Agamben's western-centric understanding of exception fail to speak from explicitly racialized and gendered standpoints. Employing existing media, activist, and academic accounts of racialization this book deliberately breaks from white, Western theorizations of biopolitics, exception, and bare life, and instead foregrounds race and gender in analysing settler colonial conditions in Israel. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Tracing race in the settler colony

1. Palestine-Israel: racial state of exception

2. Deconstructing exception: Israeli settler colonialism

3. Beyond bare life: racializing the Israeli settler colony

4. Femina sacra: gendering Palestine

5. Conclusion: Traces of race and acts of decolonization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-258) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781350032064

1350032069

OCLC:

1013178573