Hagar Kotef

The Colonizing Self

Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Theory in Forms
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011330
• ISBN-10: 1478011335
• Artikelnr.: 58700591

Autorenporträt

Hagar Kotef is Associate Professor in Political Theory and Comparative Political Thought at SOAS University of London and author of Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction: Home  1
Theoretical Overview: Violent Attachments  29
Part I. Homes
Interlude. Home/Homelessness: A Reading in Arendt  55
1. The Consuming Self: On Locke, Aristotle, Feminist Theory, and Domestic
Violences  73
Epilogue. Unsettlement  109
Part II. Relics
Interlude. A Brief Reflection on Death and Decolonization  127
2. Home (and the Ruins That Remain)  137
Epilogue. A Phenomenology of Violence: Ruins  185
Part III. Settlement
Interlude. A Moment of Popular Culture: The Home of MasterChef  203
3. On Eggs and Dispossession: Organic Agriculture and the New Settlement
Movement  215
Epilogue. An Ethic of Violence: Organic Washing  251
Conclusion  261
Bibliography  267
Index  293