Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties, (Hardcover)

<p>This interdisciplinary book provides timely fresh perspective on Palestine-Israel by rethinking the nature of settler-colonial sovereignty and the relationship between land and people. Muhannad Ayyash argues that this relationship comes in two distinct forms: a settler-colonial type, practiced by the Israeli state, that consists of "lordship" over land and people, and a decolonial type, seen in Palestinian popular organizing, that he calls "land as life," a reciprocal bond. The former is characterized by private ownership, possession, and violent expulsion of others; the latter by communal ownership, belonging to the land, and opposition to the violence of expulsion. </p><p>Ranging widely across theory and history, Ayyash contends that the opposition between these two types is at the core of the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. The choice before us today, he concludes, is between the continuation of the Israeli settler-colonial project in particular and the project of colonial modernity in general, or the commencement of a decolonial age in Palestine-Israel and beyond. Offering both novel theorizations and politically engaged analysis, <i>Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel</i> illuminates how decolonial sovereignties represent an alternative to settler-colonial violence.</p>

• Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties, (Hardcover)
• Author: Columbia University Press
• ISBN: 9780231220804
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2025-07-22
• Page Count: 384