Manifold Nakbas and the Making of a Palestinian Diaspora in the Americas
This article considers how ongoing Palestinian dispossession, manifold Nakbas (catastrophes), stemming from the active frontiers of Israeli settler colonialism and catalyzed by religious nationalism and international impunity, continues to extend and expand the Palestinian diaspora into the Americas...
| Published in: | Political theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2023
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| In: |
Political theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Palestine
/ Israel
/ The Americas
/ Palestinian Nakba, 1947-1948
/ Colonialism
/ Settler
/ Diaspora (Social sciences)
/ Diaspora (Religion)
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBL Near East and North Africa KBP America ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Manifold Nakbas
B Settler Colonialism B Refugees B Dispossession B Diasporas B Palestine |
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| Summary: | This article considers how ongoing Palestinian dispossession, manifold Nakbas (catastrophes), stemming from the active frontiers of Israeli settler colonialism and catalyzed by religious nationalism and international impunity, continues to extend and expand the Palestinian diaspora into the Americas and other regions. This also structures Palestinian personhood beyond the active space of the settler-colony. I utilize three seemingly disparate cases to make this argument. I begin with Israel’s military onslaught on Gaza in May 2021. I then offer a personal account, followed by ethnographic research conducted with Palestinian Iraq War refugees resettled in Brazil and also examine other military conflicts in the Middle East that have resulted in continual forced Palestinian displacements. Throughout, I demonstrate how Israeli settler colonialism is not an event but a structure (Wolfe. Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event. London: Cassell, 1999) which impacts Palestinian life far outside of the original space of displacement. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Reference: | Kommentar in "Unsettling the Settled: A Response (2023)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2023.2257466 |