Decolonizing Palestine : Hamas between the anticolonial and the postcolonial/
Somdeep Sen
- USA; Cornell University Press; 2020
- 186p;
Decolonizing Palestine : An Introduction -- On the Settler Colonial Elimination of Palestine -- Palestinian Postcoloniality : A Legacy of the Oslo Accords -- Anticolonial Violence and the Palestinian Struggle to Exist -- Postcolonial Governance : Imagining Palestine -- The Palestinian Moment of Liberation : A Conclusion -- On Liberation.
In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, he examines the two seemingly contradictory, yet coexistent, anticolonial and postcolonial modes of politics adopted by Hamas following the organization's unexpected victory in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election.
English
9781501752742
2020007216
21st century
JQ1850 Political institutions and public administration- Middle East- Arab countries Hamas Anti-colonial struggle Colonisation- Israel