Dear Isabel
Thank you for your reply, in which you state: "[t]he author wants to acknowledge the wrong that happened by normalising it in the history of colonialism".
I really recommend this paper by Rachel Busbridge (2018): ‘Israel-Palestine and the Settler Colonial “Turn”: From Interpretation to Decolonization’, Theory, Culture & Society 35(1), 91–115. I cite this in my book.
Busbridge correctly identifies that the absolutist solution of decolonisation is no solution at all since "a faithful adherence to the paradigm [of settler-colonialism] renders" decolonisation "largely unachievable, if not impossible": "thus [the conflict] hurtles from the past to the present into the future, never to be fully extinguished until the native is, or until history itself ends." This story becomes one of "'either total victory or total failure' (Veracini, 2007)" (Busbridge, 2018: 102).
I am committed both to a universal anti-racist imagination and politics, and to a future peaceful co-existence of what are presently two nationally self-defined groups of peoples.
Kind regards, Camila
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