{"product_id":"9781350150942","title":"Traces of Racial Exception : Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTraces of Racial Exception\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Ronit Lentin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by the state of Israel in racializing and ruling the citizens of occupied Palestine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLentin argues that Israel's rule over Palestine is an example of Agamben's state of exception, Goldberg's racial state and Wolfe's settler colony; the Israeli racial settler colony employs its laws to rule besieged Palestine, while excluding itself and its Jewish citizen-colonists from legal instruments and governmental technologies. Governing through emergency legislation and through practices of exception, emergency, necessity and security, Israel positions itself outside domestic and international law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeconstructing Agamben's Eurocentric theoretical position Lentin shows that it occludes colonialism, settler colonialism and anti-colonialism and fails to specifically foreground race; instead she combines the work of Wolfe, who proposes race as a trace of settler colonialism, and Weheliye, who argues that Agamben's western-centric understanding of exception fail to speak from explicitly racialized and gendered standpoints. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmploying existing media, activist, and academic accounts of racialization this book deliberately breaks from white, Western theorizations of biopolitics, exception, and bare life, and instead foregrounds race and gender in analysing settler colonial conditions in Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] scholarly text that provides new ways of thinking about Israel and Palestine and the dynamics of Israeli state crime. It is written in accessible, clear, and concise language, which makes the most complex information straightforward and easy to understand. Therefore, it is suitable for academics and non-academics, students and activists alike.” – \u003ci\u003eState Crime Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lentin’s in-depth and engaging work gives one a deeper understanding of the role race plays in Israel and Israel’s relationship to the Palestinians.” – \u003ci\u003eH-Judaic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a timely intervention, given contemporary pushes by Western politicians to insulate Israel from criticism by conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.” —\u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lentin's emphasis of race opens new ways of seeing the processes informing Israel's colonial project. It is, ultimately, the same bowl of fruit, but painted in a way that is simultaneously innovative and provocative.” —\u003ci\u003eIrish Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The empirical richness of the book makes it an extremely timely and compelling read … An important insight of this book is that we cannot think and act 'decolonization' without taking race and de-racialization seriously.” —\u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350150942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40744282423502,"sku":"9781350150942","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_552ad9c3-c7b7-44bc-b9d0-644160a14440.jpg?v=1641446581","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350150942","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}