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"Since Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, over 400,000 settlers have moved into the territory. In recent years, Israeli settler organizations and allied American-Jewish lobbyists have responded to international condemnation of the occupation by mobilizing narratives of indigeneity, claiming sovereign and divine rights to the land. Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what Israeli settlers mean when they say they are indigenous; how settler indigeneity is felt, performed, and mediated; and what are the implications of indigeneity claims on the international stage. Building on foundational scholarship that has come out of post-colonial and indigeneity studies, the volume theorizes settler indigeneity as a cultural phenomenon and product of transnational settler-colonial histories, while also interrogating the dialectic of “settler” and “indigenous” to illustrate their co-constitution. Considering agriculture, clothing, food, language, and religious practices, the chapters explore how feelings of indigeneity are fashioned and how these feelings continue to transform the landscape of the West Bank. Offering a series of original ethnographic accounts of these cultu

Author

Feldman, Rachel Z. (edt); Mcgonigle, Ian (edt)

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780228019541