Seminars at Docklands Campus, organised by CMRB
Between Colonialism and Ethnocracy: 'Creeping Apartheid' in Israel/Palestine
Oren Yiftachel (Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba)
Wednesday 17 February, 2.30pm, Room EB G10
The paper analyzes the recent phase in the political geography of
Israel/Palestine termed here 'oppressive consolidation', during which Zionist
colonialism begins to retreat and Israeli leaders lend putative support for
Palestinian statehood. This is accompanied by deepening oppressive practices
on both sides of the Green Line, surges of violence, and intensification of
racist discourses and politics. It is argued that this amounts to a
structural process of 'creeping apartheid', through which Israel gradually
institutionalizes several types of 'separate and unequal' civil statuses
between Jordan and Sea. Palestinians are restricted into fragmented 'black'
(disenfranchised) and 'colored' (marginalized) ghettoes, while Jewish space
in the entire land remains 'smooth' and empowered, increasingly blurring the
distinction between Israel Proper and Judaized Palestinian Territories. The
gradual merging of belligerent occupation, colonial settlement, and
ethnocratic government, as well as ethnically selective democratic practices
and recent economic liberalizing and polarization, make Israel/Palestine
increasingly resemble an apartheid regime.
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship - Life Stories From Britain and
Germany
Umut Erel (The Open University) and Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University)
discuss Umut Erel's book
Tuesday 11 May
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning
the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of
skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It
interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with
the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received
insufficient attention. By focussing on the British and German contexts, it
introduces a much needed European and comparative perspective, whilst
exploring the ways in which diverging concepts and policies of citizenship
allow for a differentiated examination of ethnicity, gender, multiculturalism
and citizenship in Europe.
The Invisible Empire - White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging
Georgie Wemyss (Goldsmiths College) and Vron Ware (The Open University)
discuss Georgie Wemyss's book
Tuesday 18 May
How have dominant and white liberal discourses maintained their hegemony in a
post-colonial world? Georgie Wemyss offers a significant and original
contribution to critical race theory through this anthropological acount of
the cultural hegemony of the West. She demonstrates how concepts of tolerance
have been substantially reproduced through time in order to accommodate the
challenges of history.
Paul Dudman BA (Hons.) MScEcon. MCLIP
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