BOOK LAUNCH | Rachel Feldman and Ian McGonigle- Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION

Join Rachel Feldman, co-editor, for the book launch of Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank. This event is in memory of contributor Dr. Hayim Katsman.

Parts of Ian McGonigle's film Redemption will be shown.

Azrieli Institute Reading Room, 2155 Guy St Suite 740, Montréal, QC H3H 2L9

More details and registration: Meeting Registration - Zoom

Speakers:

Rachel Feldman, Dartmouth College

Ariel Handel, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem

Emily Schneider, Northern Arizona University

about the book

Since Israel conquered the West Bank, formerly held by 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 the implications of indigeneity claims are 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.