Indigeneity, Apartheid, Palestine: On the Transit of Political Metaphors

Rifkin, Mark

doi:10.5749/culturalcritique.95.2017.0025

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“…For we are aware of the analytical limitations, recently raised by Mark Rifkin, about the 'transit' of the words 'apartheid' and 'settler colonialism' from South Africa as a shorthand for understanding state violence in Israel. 70 Our 'transit' of these political metaphors from Israel to Brazil also requires caution. And settler colonialism and apartheid should not be used interchangeably.…”

Section: Racial Segregation and Settler Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We believe, with Rifkin, that simply describing such a system as 'apartheid' overlooks settler colonialism as a form of exclusion within a potentially more encompassing state citizenship. 78 Apartheid refers to racial separation and exploitation by the state (be it politically or economically) whereas settler colonialism refers to indigenous sovereignty rather than statehood. Wolfe argues that settler colonialism is a structure and not an event, premised on the elimination of the native.…”

Section: Settler Colonial Transfer and Global Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

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An ‘Olympics without Apartheid’: Brazilian-Palestinian solidarity against Israeli securitisation

Desai¹,

Sykes²

2019

Race & Class

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It was at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games that, for the first time, activists mobilised against the Israeli securitisation of sport. Brazilian-Palestinian solidarity action, calling for Rio to be an ‘Olympics without Apartheid’, led the then Brazilian government to distance itself from a $2 billion agreement with an Israeli security company. The authors discuss the way in which the solidarity movement emerged and how Israeli companies use Gaza as a ‘lab’ to develop weapons, policing techniques and security technologies for sale on the world market. They point to the parallels between Israel’s securocratic war of pacification and Brazil’s immense security measures against the favelas during a decade of sport mega-events. They trace the flow of securitisation between Israel and Brazil in terms of racial apartheid and settler colonialism to show the impacts on people in occupied Palestine and the favelas of Rio.

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Section: Racial Segregation and Settler Colonialismmentioning

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Section: Settler Colonial Transfer and Global Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

An ‘Olympics without Apartheid’: Brazilian-Palestinian solidarity against Israeli securitisation

Desai¹,

Sykes²

2019

Race & Class

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“…During the Mamanuan diaspora experience, the practice of moving around becomes a political mediation: a performativity of their indigeneity that resists erasure and moves outside the bureaucratic policy of the state. Rifkin (2017) suggested that 'the concept of indigeneity, when fully engaged, foregrounds the presence of a political collectivity (or collectivities) whose existence, inhabitance, and governance cannot be conceptualized as an internal matter for domestic policy and whose modes of political organization and expression need not take the form of a nation-state (Rifkin,56).' Diaspora's mediation then continuously acts a contingent political resistance when it escapes the insurgencies and militarization of the State and communist rebels.…”

Section: Diaspora's Mediation As Performative Indigeneitymentioning

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Theorizing Mamanuan Diaspora: from Vanishing Mediator to Performative Indigeneity

Kahambing¹

2019

rupkatha

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The Mamanuas of Basey, Samar have been in an itinerant state since the 1950s. Their indigenous experience can be capped in the term ‘diaspora,’ which pictures their plight as dispersive habituation, moving from town to town away from their homeland. In a recent study which this paper hinges upon, the concept of diaspora can no longer work and is argued to imperatively function as a vanishing mediator so that indigeneity must come to mean as a constant identity of becoming. Following from such a theoretical lens, this paper delves again into the concept of ‘diaspora’ in the Mamanuan indigenous experience to argue further that its act of mediating functions as performative indigeneity. To do this, the paper runs in three parts: first, it plots the Mamanuan diaspora experience; second, it briefly reiterates the core argument of diaspora as vanishing mediator; and finally, it theorizes on a concept of what Judith Butler calls ‘performative indigeneity’ that takes its form from the mediation of an indigenous diaspora experience.

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‘The occupation wants to delete us’: Palestinian youth’s interpretations of and resistance to settler colonialism

Jimenez

2023

Third World Quarterly

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Indigeneity, Apartheid, Palestine: On the Transit of Political Metaphors

Cited by 26 publications

References 43 publications

An ‘Olympics without Apartheid’: Brazilian-Palestinian solidarity against Israeli securitisation

An ‘Olympics without Apartheid’: Brazilian-Palestinian solidarity against Israeli securitisation

Theorizing Mamanuan Diaspora: from Vanishing Mediator to Performative Indigeneity

‘The occupation wants to delete us’: Palestinian youth’s interpretations of and resistance to settler colonialism

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