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Understanding Palestine-Israel through the lens of settler colonial theory
Seminar
Event details
This presentation will outline the role played by the case of Palestine-Israel within the field of settler colonial studies. It will also consider 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 will draw on established anti-colonial and postcolonial scholarship to historicise Palestine-Israel as a case of settler colonialism. It will build upon this to evaluate the key insights and contributions made by recent settler colonial theorising. In particular, it will consider 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.
Biography
Dr. Teodora Todorova is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She is the author of ‘Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel: Settler Colonialism and Resistance from Within’. Her research and teaching focus on transnational civil society and activist mobilisation against human rights violations in the context of gendered and racialised state violence. She is co-editor and programme director at Reading Decoloniality: an open-source publication and reading group investigating decolonial texts across disciplines.