Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 25, 2018).

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Tracing Race in the Settler Colony; Prologue: Extrajudicial Execution in Hebron, Occupied Palestine; 2 Is Israel a Racial State of Exception?; Prologue: Theater and Emergency; Introduction; State of Exception; Racial State; The Law in the Service of the Racial State; Democracy in Decline or Apartheid State?; Conclusion: Beyond Exception; 3 Unexceptional Exceptionalism:: Israeli Settler Colonialism; Prologue: Death and Demolitions in Umm al-Hiran; Introduction

Settler Colonialism: A Structure, Not an Event?; Israeli Settler Colonialism: Not a "New Paradigm"; Israeli Settler Colonialism: A Historical Analysis; Settler Colonialism in the Israeli Present; Conclusion: Racializing Settler Colonialism; 4 Racializing the Israeli Settler Colony; Prologue: Israel and the "Disappeared" Yemeni Children; Introduction; Race or Racism?; Traces of Race: Zionism, Race, Eugenics and Jewish Supremacy; Zionism and Antisemitism; Settler Colonialism, Race, Genocide; Deracination and Demographic Anxiety; Race-ism; White Fragility, Jewish Victimhood and Non-Jews in Israel

Conclusion: Beyond Bare Life; 5 Beyond Femina Sacra: Gendering Palestine; Prologue: Rape in Nirim, 1949; Introduction; Israel's Equality Bluff; Beyond Femina Sacra; Feminizing Palestine, Masculinizing Israel; Killing the Palestinian Body; Conclusion: Racialized Assemblages and Feminized Resistance; 6 Conclusion: Traces of Race and Acts of Decolonization; Prologue: The 2017 Prison Hunger Strike; Introduction; Decolonization: Between "Total Disorder" and Recognition; Decolonization as Inter/national; Boycotting Israel as a Strategy of Decolonization

Poetry in the Service of Decolonizing Palestine; Decolonization is not a Metaphor; Conclusion: Decolonization beyond Racialization; Notes; Bibliography; Index

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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