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Neither Settler nor Native - The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Hardcover)
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Neither Settler nor Native - The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Hardcover)
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Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural
Understanding Making the radical argument that the nation-state was
born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political
violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and
minorities. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood
Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created
each other. In case after case around the globe-from the New World
to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan-the colonial state and
the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the
politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of
an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in North
America, where genocide and internment on reservations created both
a permanent native underclass and the physical and ideological
spaces in which new immigrant identities crystallized as a settler
nation. In Europe, this template would be used by the Nazis to
address the Jewish Question, and after the fall of the Third Reich,
by the Allies to redraw the boundaries of Eastern Europe's
nation-states, cleansing them of their minorities. After Nuremberg
the template was used to preserve the idea of the Jews as a
separate nation. By establishing Israel through the minoritization
of Palestinian Arabs, Zionist settlers followed the North American
example. The result has been another cycle of violence. Neither
Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this historical
process. Mamdani rejects the "criminal" solution attempted at
Nuremberg, which held individual perpetrators responsible without
questioning Nazism as a political project and thus the violence of
the nation-state itself. Instead, political violence demands
political solutions: not criminal justice for perpetrators but a
rethinking of the political community for all survivors-victims,
perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries-based on common residence
and the commitment to build a common future without the permanent
political identities of settler and native. Mamdani points to the
anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as an unfinished project,
seeking a state without a nation.
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