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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.

Despite the expectations of experts, Hamas has persisted as both an armed resistance to Israeli settler colonial rule and as a governing body. Based on ethnographic material collected in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel, and Egypt, Decolonizing Palestine argues that the puzzle Hamas presents is not rooted in predicting the timing or process of its abandonment of either role. The challenge instead lies in explaining how and why it maintains both, and what this implies for the study of liberation movements and postcolonial studies more generally.

ISBN-13: 9781501752742

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Publication Date: 12-15-2020

Pages: 186

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

Age Range: 18 Years

Somdeep Sen is Associate Professor at Roskilde University. He is coauthor of The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Follow him on Twitter @ssen03.

What People are Saying About This

John Collins

Combining valuable on-the-ground detail with deep analytical insight, Decolonizing Palestine is a welcome contribution to discussions of the ongoing Palestinian struggle for liberation from colonial domination.

Nicola Pratt

Based on original ethnographic material, Decolonizing Palestine makes a path-breaking contribution to postcolonial studies as well as studies of Palestinian politics, arguing that the moment of anticolonial liberation is not a rupture, but rather, the anticolonial and the postcolonial coexist in an ongoing struggle for recognition, justice and sovereignty.

Table of Contents

1. Decolonizing Palestine: An Introduction
2. On the Settler Colonial Elimination of Palestine
3. Palestinian Postcoloniality: A Legacy of the Oslo Accords
4. Anticolonial Violence and the Palestinian Struggle to Exist
5. Postcolonial Governance: Imagining Palestine
6. The Palestinian Moment of Liberation
7. On Liberation