Introduction / Rachel Z. Feldman and Ian McGonigle -- "Women from the Tribe of Judah": Gendering "Settler-Indigeneity" in an International West Bank Seminary / Rachel Z. Feldman -- Soulful Soil and Colonial Quality: Organic Farming in the West Bank / Ariel Handel, Daniel Monterescu, and Rafi Grosglik -- "We Came Back": Winemaking as Storied Performativity / Ian McGonigle -- Indigeneity after Destruction: Religious Zionist Settlers in Halutza / Hayim Katsman -- Negotiating Indigeneity in Hebron: Criminality, Tourism, and Liberal Settler Colonialism / Emily Schneider -- Dangerous Mimicry in the West Bank / Amir Reicher -- When Does a Settler Become a Native? (With Apologies to Mamdani) / Raef Zreik.
Summary:
"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 cultures and communities, Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank intimately documents and discusses the processes of settler-nativization in conversation with a variety of related literature in anthropology, cultural studies, Israel studies, religious studies, and settler-colonial studies."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
McGill-Queen's Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies series ; 2
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