The colonizing self : or, home and homelessness in Israel/Palestine / Hagar Kotef.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kotef, Hagar, 1977- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Theory in forms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land settlement--West Bank.

Land settlement.

Israelis.

Social conditions.

Social aspects.

Land settlement--Social aspects.

West Bank.

Land settlement--Social aspects--West Bank.

Israelis--Colonization--West Bank.

Israelis--Colonization.

Israelis--Homes and haunts--Social aspects--West Bank.

Israelis--West Bank--Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"Hagar Kotef explores the cultural, political, spatial, and theoretical mechanisms that enable people and nations to settle on the ruins of other people's homes, showing how settler-colonial violence becomes inseparable from one's sense of self."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Homes

Interlude. Home/Homelessness

Chapter 1. The Consuming Self: On Locke, Aristotle, Feminist Theory, and Domestic Violences

Epilogue. Unsettlement

Part II. Relics

Interlude. A Brief Reflection on Death and Decolonization

Chapter 2. Home (and the Ruins That Remain)

Epilogue. A Phenomenology of Violence: Ruins

Part III. Settlement

Interlude. A Moment of Popular Culture: The Home of MasterChef

Chapter 3. On Eggs and Dispossession: Organic Agriculture and the New Settlement

Movement

Epilogue. An Ethic of Violence

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kotef, Hagar, 1977- Colonizing self.

ISBN:

9781478012863

1478012862

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.