A01=Hagar Kotef
Author_Hagar Kotef
Best Book Award from the International Political Sociology Section
CAIT Sussex International Theory Prize honorable mention
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Fatema Mernissi Book Award honorable mention
Honorable Mention
International Studies Association book award winners
International Studies Association book awards
Middle East Studies Association book awards
settler colonial studies
Yale H. Ferguson Award co-winner
Product details
- ISBN 9781478011330
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 and nations to settle on the ruins of other people's homes. Kotef demonstrates how the mass and structural modes of violence that are necessary for the establishment and sustainment of the colony dwell within settler-colonial homemaking, and through it shape collective and individual identities. She thus powerfully shows how the possibility to live amid the destruction one generates is not merely the possibility to turn one's gaze away from violence but also the possibility to develop an attachment to violence itself. Kotef thereby offers a theoretical framework for understanding how settler-colonial violence becomes inseparable from one's sense of self.
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.
