"The age of transnational humanities has arrived. According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian studies and American Indian studies have more in common than one may think. In Inter/Nationalism, Salaita argues that American Indian and Indigenous studies must be more...

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1. Verfasser:	Salaita, Steven 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press [2016]
Schriftenreihe:	Indigenous Americas
Schlagworte:	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism / bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies / bisacsh Indians of North America > Study and teaching Decolonization > United States Decolonization > Palestine Indians of North America > Colonization Indigenous peoples > Colonization > Palestine Internationalism Indians of North America > Politics and government Boycotts > United States POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Palestine > Study and teaching Israel > Foreign public opinion, American
Zusammenfassung:	"The age of transnational humanities has arrived. According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian studies and American Indian studies have more in common than one may think. In Inter/Nationalism, Salaita argues that American Indian and Indigenous studies must be more central to the scholarship and activism focusing on Palestine. Salaita offers a fascinating inside account of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement...which, among other things, aims to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian land. In doing so, he emphasizes BDS's significant potential as an organizing community as well as its importance in the creation of intellectual and political communities that put Natives and other colonized peoples such as Palestinians into conversation. His discussion includes readings of a wide range of Native poetry that invokes Palestine as a theme or symbol; the speeches of U.S. President Andrew Jackson and early Zionist thinker Ze'ev Jabotinsky; and the discourses of 'shared values' between the U.S. and Israel. Inter/Nationalism seeks to lay conceptual ground between American Indian and Indigenous studies and Palestinian studies through concepts of settler colonialism, indigeneity, and state violence. By establishing Palestine as an indigenous nation under colonial occupation, this book draws crucial connections between the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine"...
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index
Beschreibung:	xix, 207 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:	9781517901417 9781517901424