Decolonizing Palestine - Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (Paperback)

In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, he examines the two seemingly contradictory, yet coexistent, anticolonial and postcolonial modes of politics adopted by Hamas following the organization's unexpected victory in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election. Despite the expectations of experts, Hamas has persisted as both an armed resistance to Israeli settler colonial rule and as a governing body. Based on ethnographic material collected in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel, and Egypt, Decolonizing Palestine argues that the puzzle Hamas presents is not rooted in predicting the timing or process of its abandonment of either role. The challenge instead lies in explaining how and why it maintains both, and what this implies for the study of liberation movements and postcolonial studies more generally.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2022
Authors:	Somdeep Sen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	186
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-5274-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5017-5274-X
Barcode:	9781501752742

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