Abstract
The evacuations of settlements in a colonial situation can represent moments of potential rupture and reversal of a political order rooted in dispossession. In the case of Israel/Palestine, however, such moments are characterized by the re-articulation and re-legitimization of the settler colonial enterprise. This takes place through the development of a specific moral economy founded on the political mobilization of trauma. Drawing attention to the multifaceted ways in which the evacuations of the colonies are translated by different social actors into a moral inversion –where the evacuated dispossessor becomes a traumatized victim– allows us to grasp one of the dominant moral imaginaries in Israel’s settler colonial model.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 49 |
Number of pages | 74 |
Journal | History of the Present |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Israeli evacuations
- moral economy
- trauma
- dispossession
- settler colonialism
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Nicola Perugini
- School of Social and Political Science - Senior Lecturer
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