The culturalisation of indigeneity: the Palestinian-Bedouin of the Naqab and indigenous rights

Tatour, Lana

doi:10.1080/13642987.2019.1609454

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“…2018). As Lana Tatour (2019) insists, Bedouin indigeneity must not be conceived of in essentialist terms of “authentic” culture, which might depoliticise their just claims. Rather, it must be understood as a dynamic way of life, shaped and reshaped in the context of colonial violence.…”

Section: Theoretical and Historical Background: Indigenous Minorities...mentioning

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Self‐Surveillance in a Settler‐Colonial Context: CCTV and Tribal Authority in the Bedouin Town of Hura

Lichinitzer

Snir

2022

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In this article, we examine the installation of surveillance cameras in the Bedouin town of Hura in the Negev desert in Israel, analysing the complex interactions between the state and the local inhabitants, for whom the cameras were an opportunity to exercise agency. Considering the long history of Jewish colonialism in the Negev, one could have assumed that the new surveillance technology was imposed on the Bedouins against their will. However, in‐depth interviews with Hura inhabitants demonstrated that the municipality and tribal authorities were active players in deciding on the installation and location of the surveillance cameras. In light of the conflictual relations of the Bedouin population to Israeli state authorities, we argue that while the cameras placed the Bedouins of Hura under a new layer of surveillance, their installation could also be understood as a reaction to the ongoing neglect of Bedouin lives and possessions by the state.

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Section: Theoretical and Historical Background: Indigenous Minorities...mentioning

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Self‐Surveillance in a Settler‐Colonial Context: CCTV and Tribal Authority in the Bedouin Town of Hura

Lichinitzer

Snir

2022

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“…Although not a direct focus of this issue, it is important to note the wariness of many Palestinians and, respectively, of Palestine Studies scholarship (including several of this issue’s contributors) toward a tight embrace of Indigeneity as the prominent lens through which to define Palestinian identity and environmental justice debates in this region. Alongside concerns about reinforcing the hegemonic settler-native binary (Busbridge, 2018), thereby silencing Palestinian voices and agency (effectively “museumifying” Palestinians in the past; see Barakat, 2018; Abu-Lughod, 2020), there are also concerns that autochthonous claims of Native rights to original ownership are both untenable for these communities and politically problematic for (other) non-Indigenous communities (Nichols, 2020: 7; Tatour, 2019; Waldron, 2003).…”

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Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction

Braverman

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Our special issue provides a first-of-its kind attempt to examine environmental injustices in the occupied West Bank through interdisciplinary perspectives, pointing to the broader settler colonial and neoliberal contexts within which they occur and to their more-than-human implications. Specifically, we seek to understand what environmental justice—a movement originating from, and rooted in, the United States—means in the context of Palestine/Israel. Moving beyond the settler-native dialectic, we draw attention to the more-than-human flows that occur in the region—which include water, air, waste, cement, trees, donkeys, watermelons, and insects—to consider the dynamic, and often gradational, meanings of frontier, enclosure, and Indigeneity in the West Bank, challenging the all-too-binary assumptions at the core of settler colonialism. Against the backdrop of the settler colonial project of territorial dispossession and elimination, we illuminate the infrastructural connections and disruptions among lives and matter in the West Bank, interpreting these through the lens of environmental justice. We finally ask what forms of ecological decolonization might emerge from this landscape of accumulating waste, concrete, and ruin. Such alternative visions that move beyond the single axis of settler-native enable the emergence of more nuanced, and even hopeful, ecological imaginaries that focus on sumud, dignity, and recognition.

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“…But first a caveat. By foregrounding Indigeneity, we are wary of the problematic ways in which the notion has been made legible and instrumentalised within liberal and settler colonial legal and cultural governance, as a static and confined cultural or traditional identity (Povinelli, 2016;Tatour, 2019). Indigeneity here refers to the political claims of return of refugees, which include the right to a particular way of being in and with nature.…”

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Displacing the Anthropocene: Colonisation, extinction and the unruliness of nature in Palestine

Salih

Corry

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Recent ‘Anthropocene’ commentaries have argued that as humans have become decisively entangled in natural systems, they collectively became a geological species-agent potentially becoming aware of its own place in the deep history of planetary time. Through this, the argument goes, a pre-political collective consciousness could emerge, paving the way for a progressive construction of a common world, beyond particularistic justice-claims. The reverse case is made in scholarship of settler colonialism: the Anthropocene is rooted in histories of settler colonial violence and is deeply tied up with the dispossession and ‘extinction’ of Indigenous life-worlds. In this article, we foreground nature–human entanglement as crucial for understanding the operations but also the instability of settler colonialism in Palestine. We suggest that fractures and openings become legible when paying attention to the ‘afterlife’ of nature that was erased due to its enmeshment with Indigenous people. We provide a historical and ethnographic account of past and emerging entanglements between Palestinians refugees and their nature, ultimately arguing that indigeneity is recalcitrant to obliteration. With that in mind, we return to the Anthropocene’s focus on universal human extinction and ethical consciousness by critically engaging with it from the standpoint of colonised and displaced Indigenous populations, like the Palestinian refugees. We conclude by arguing that only when the profoundly unequal access to Life entrenched in settler colonialism is foregrounded and addressed, does a real possibility of recognising any common, global vulnerability that the species faces emerge.

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The culturalisation of indigeneity: the Palestinian-Bedouin of the Naqab and indigenous rights

Cited by 28 publications

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Self‐Surveillance in a Settler‐Colonial Context: CCTV and Tribal Authority in the Bedouin Town of Hura

Self‐Surveillance in a Settler‐Colonial Context: CCTV and Tribal Authority in the Bedouin Town of Hura

Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction

Displacing the Anthropocene: Colonisation, extinction and the unruliness of nature in Palestine

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