Relations of ruling in the colonial present: An intersectional view of the Israeli imaginary

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  • Madalena Santos Carleton University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs17940

Keywords:

Israel/Palestine, colonialism, ethno-nationalism, racialization, gender, citizenship.

Abstract

This article presents a categorical framework for the interrogation of power relations in the study and analysis of Israeli colonialism in Palestine. Following critical anti-racist feminist approaches, I highlight the relationality between race, class, and gender constructions that are crucial to colonial rule. Extending Chandra Mohanty’s (1991) reading of Dorothy Smith’s “relations of ruling”, I outline six intersecting categories of colonial practices to examine Israel’s particular colonization forms and processes. These categories include: racial separation; citizenship and naturalization forms and processes; construction and consolidation of existing social inequalities; gender, sexuality, and sexual violence, racialized and gendered prisoners; and “unmarked” versus “marked” discourses. Understanding colonial experiences as heterogeneous and plural, I conclude by arguing for the furthering of decolonial and anti-racist feminist analyses from within specific sites of resistance.

Author Biography

Madalena Santos, Carleton University

Madalena Santos is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Carleton University.

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Published

2013-02-20

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