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Indigeneity, Resistance, and Imagination: Palestinian Liberation as Decolonial Praxis
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Zionist settler colonialism is grounded in the interoperating oppressive structures of capitalism, heteropatriarchy and racism. These function alongside Zionist narratives to construct a regressive “native” whose dispossession is justified to realise a Zionist goal of an ethnic nation-state, fashioned after its Euro-American counterparts. This paper comprehends Palestinian resistance to its colonisation as embedded in the opposition to these global oppressive structures, relating them to anti-colonialism movements across the world. Not just this, but Palestinian resistance is also grounded in its dreams of emancipation from these structures. These liberating imaginations draw upon indigenous knowledge and ties to the land, community and body, and in the process, reconstitute the structures on which this world is built. Through this, the paper aims to bring together a vast corpus of literature on Palestine to argue that in combining resistance, liberation and indigeneity, these imaginations present a truly “decolonial” vision for the world.
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“Israeli authorities laid religious claims via Judaism vis-à-vis Palestinian lands, reclaiming them as historically theirs, which, from their perspective, repositioned them as 'rightful' inhabitants of the region and stripped Palestinians from identifications of indigeneity (Amara & Hawari, 2019; Chopra, 2022; Nabulsi, 2023).”
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- Authors
- Chopra, R.
- Affiliations
- Ashoka University (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Chopra, Rohan
- Venue
- The Columbia Journal of Asia
- Publisher
- Columbia University Libraries
- Published
- 2022-04-26
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 111-123
- ISSN
- 2832-8558 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4302407759
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 0.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Columbia Journal of Asia (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
- Keywords
- Palestinian resistance, indigeneity, decoloniality, anti-colonialism, indigenous knowledge, land dispossession, nation-state, heteropatriarchy, racism, capitalism, liberation, imagination, Palestine
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