The Stale Grammar of the Settler-Colonialism Framing in the Palestine/Israel Context – Nida Alahmad (5 Nov)

CRITIQUE Joint Seminar with Middle East Research Group and Political Theory Research Group

Nida Alahmad, Edinburgh 

The Stale Grammar of the Settler-Colonialism Framing in the Palestine/Israel Context

This presentation asks the question of the relationship between democracy, the Palestinian struggle for emancipation from Israeli domination, and Israel as a state that is upheld by a nationalist ideological apparatus that is also a settler-colonial project (broadly conceived). The answer fundamentally rests on the justification for centring democracy in this context. In so doing it illustrates that a settler-colonial framing, despite having analytical and historical utility to our understanding of the situation, does not serve as a framework through which one can articulate or imagine emancipatory political arrangements. It is in this context that this framing, as the title suggests, is stale in its capacity to produce new forms of political possibilities.

Wednesday 5th November, 3-4:30 pm,

Crystal Macmillan Building Room 3.15