Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre 325d ago

This presentation outlines the role played by the case of Palestine-Israel within the field of settler colonial studies. It also considers how scholarly and activist understandings of the geopolitics of the Palestine-Israel have been shaped by the mainstreaming of a settler colonial framing. The presentation draws on established anti-colonial and postcolonial scholarship to historicise Palestine-Israel as a case of settler colonialism. It builds upon this to evaluate the key insights and contributions made by recent settler colonial theorising. In particular, it considers the possibility to decolonize in the context where international geopolitics remain characterised by a matrix of coloniality or the intersections of racial capitalism, neoliberal extractivism, and the logics of violent dispossession which seeks the elimination of native sovereignty.