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How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite--an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sectors of European and American society as a manifestation of the progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy, and hence a project that can be passionately defended for its lofty ideals.   Tolerance Is a Wasteland argues that the key to this miraculous act of political alchemy is a very specific form of denial. Here the Palestinian presence in, and claim to, Palestine is not simply refused or covered up, but negated in such a way that the act of denial is itself denied. The effects of destruction and repression are reframed, inverted into affirmations of liberal virtues that can be passionately championed. In Tolerance Is a Wasteland, Saree Makdisi explores many such acts of affirmation and denial in a range of venues: from the haunted landscape of thickly planted forests covering the ruins of Palestinian villages forcibly depopulated in 1948; to the theater of "pinkwashing" as Israel presents itself to the world as a gay-friendly haven of cultural inclusion; to the so-called Museum of Tolerance being built on top of the ruins of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, which was methodically desecrated in order to clear the space for this monument to "human dignity." Tolerance Is a Wasteland reveals the system of emotional investments and curated perceptions that makes this massive project of cognitive dissonance possible.

Arab-Israeli conflict --- Denial (Psychology) --- Propaganda, Zionist. --- Palestine --- History. --- Museum of Tolerance. --- Palestinian home demolition. --- Zionism. --- apartheid. --- book about Israel settler colonial dispossession. --- human rights. --- liberal culture.

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Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty-first century? What might nation-to-nation literary relations look like? Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts - including Puritan captivity narratives, Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry - Rachel Bryant explores how colonized and Indigenous environments occupy the same given geographical coordinates even while existing in distinct epistemological worlds. Her analyses call for a vital and unprecedented process of listening to the stories that Indigenous peoples have been telling about this continent for centuries. At the same time, she performs this process herself, creating a model for listening and for incorporating those stories throughout. This commitment to listening is analogous to homing - the sophisticated skill that turtles, insects, lobsters, birds, and countless other beings use to return to sites of familiarity. Bryant adopts the homing process as a reading strategy that continuously seeks to transcend the distortions and distractions that were intentionally built into Settler Canadian culture across centuries.

Canadian literature --- History and criticism. --- . --- American studies. --- Canadian studies. --- Indigenous literacies. --- Indigenous studies. --- atlantic world. --- border studies. --- colonial northeast. --- eastern Canada. --- hemispheric studies. --- literary history. --- non-alphabetic literature. --- northeastern North America. --- reconciliation. --- settler colonial studies. --- transatlantic. --- what is an early American. --- what is literature.

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How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of colonialityThe revolutionary aspirations that fueled decolonization circulated on paper-as pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, and brochures. Now-as evidenced by movements from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter-revolutions, protests, and political dissidence are profoundly shaped by information circulating through digital networks. Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary "decolonizing" movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication. Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan interrogate the forms, forces, and processes that have reinforced neocolonial relations within contemporary digital environments, at a time when digital networks-and the agendas and actions they proffer-have unsettled entrenched hierarchies in unforeseen ways. Digital Unsettling examines events-the toppling of statues in the UK, the proliferation of #BLM activism globally, the rise of Hindu nationalists in North America, the trolling of academics, among others-and how they circulated online and across national boundaries. In doing so, Udupa and Dattatreyan demonstrate how the internet has become the key site for an invigorated anticolonial internationalism, but has simultaneously augmented conditions of racial hierarchy within nations, in the international order, and in the liminal spaces that shape human migration and the lives of those that are on the move. Digital Unsettling establishes a critical framework for placing digitalization within the longue durée of coloniality, while also revealing the complex ways in which the internet is entwined with persistent global calls for decolonization.

Decolonization --- Decolonization. --- Social media and society --- Social media and society. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- Frederick Douglass. --- Lydia Maria Child. --- Richard Powers. --- Robin Wall Kimmerer. --- South Africa. --- affective counterpublics. --- botanical culture. --- campus protests. --- cash crops. --- collective agency. --- coloniality. --- communication. --- data. --- decolonization. --- digital. --- emancipated population. --- horticulture. --- montage methodology. --- montage. --- multispecies cooperation. --- nationalist discourse. --- plant geography. --- plant intelligence. --- plant life. --- plantation economy. --- plantation slavery. --- scientific agriculture. --- settler-colonial project. --- social media. --- transplantation. --- university. --- unsettling.

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Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law' provides a timely analysis of structural racism at the intersection of law and colonialism. Noting the grim racial realities still confronting communities of color, and how they have not been alleviated by constitutional guarantees of equal protection, this book suggests that settler colonial theory provides a more coherent understanding of what causes and what can help remediate racial disparities.0Natsu Taylor Saito attributes the origins and persistence of racialized inequities in the United States to the prerogatives asserted by its predominantly Angloamerican colonizers to appropriate Indigenous lands and resources, to profit from the labor of voluntary and involuntary migrants, and to ensure that all people of color remain "in their place." 0By providing a functional analysis that links disparate forms of oppression, this book makes the case for the oft-cited proposition that racial justice is indivisible, focusing particularly on the importance of acknowledging and contesting the continued colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands. 'Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law' concludes that rather than relying on promises of formal equality, we will more effectively dismantle structural racism in America by envisioning what the right of all peoples to self-determination means in a settler colonial state.

Race discrimination --- Minorities --- Racism --- Indigenous peoples --- Decolonization --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- United States --- Race relations --- Colonization --- Territorial expansion. --- History --- Territorial expansion --- Discrimination raciale --- Minorités --- Racisme --- Autochtones --- Décolonisation --- Droit --- Histoire --- Etats-Unis --- Relations raciales --- Colonisation --- Expansion territoriale --- Social problems --- Sociology of minorities --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Race discrimination - Law and legislation - United States - History --- Minorities - Legal status, laws, etc. - United States - History --- Racism - United States - History --- Indigenous peoples - Legal status, laws, etc. - United States - History --- Decolonization - United States - History --- United States - Colonization - History --- United States - Race relations - History --- United States - Territorial expansion --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Postcolonialism --- Ethnology --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Segregation --- African Americans. --- American Indian Movement. --- American Indian. --- Apartheid. --- Asian Americans. --- Assimilation. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Black Panther Party. --- COINTELPRO. --- Citizenship. --- Civil rights. --- Civilization. --- Colonialism. --- Community. --- Constitution. --- Convict labor. --- Criminalization. --- Decolonization. --- Deindustrialization. --- Dignity. --- Disappearance. --- Due process. --- Dynamic of difference. --- Elimination. --- Emancipation. --- Equal protection. --- Exclusion. --- Foreignness. --- Gender. --- Genocide. --- Grassroots. --- Human rights. --- Identity. --- Immigrants. --- Immigration. --- Imperialism. --- Incarceration. --- Inclusion. --- Inclusive exclusion. --- Indigeneity. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Indigenous rights. --- Indigenous. --- Internal colonialism. --- International law. --- Labor. --- Land claims. --- Latina/os. --- Lynching. --- Mass incarceration. --- Massacres. --- Migrant Others. --- Narrative. --- National security. --- Neocolonialism. --- Origin stories. --- People of color. --- Peoples. --- Plenary power. --- Pluriverse. --- Policing. --- Postcolonial. --- Postracial. --- Poverty. --- Property. --- Racial discrimination. --- Racialization. --- Racism. --- Reconstruction. --- Redress. --- Refugees. --- Removal. --- Reparations. --- Reproduction. --- Savagery. --- Self-determination. --- Settler colonial theory. --- Settler colonialism. --- Sixties. --- Slavery. --- Social control. --- Sovereignty. --- Standing Rock. --- Strategies. --- United States. --- Violence. --- Xenophobia. --- United States of America