The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine

by Hagar Kotef

Book Overview

Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers in the Americas and Australia dwell and thrive on expropriated indigenous lands. In The Colonizing Self Hagar Kotef traces the cultural, political, and spatial apparatuses that enable people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011335
• ISBN13: 9781478011330
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"