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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Philosophy@UWS presents A Research Seminar with
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars/research_seminars_2014/ronit_lentin">Ronit
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</span></u><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Israel/Palestine: State of Exception and Acts of Decolonisation
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">DATE/TIME:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Wednesday, 22 October, 3.30pm-5.00pm
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<b>PLACE:</b> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27 [How to get to Bankstown Campus]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ABSTRACT:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Israel is variously theorised as a settler-colonial society, an apartheid state, an
ethnocracy and a racial state. Following the most recent massacre of Gaza, this paper theorises the biopolitical regime prevalent in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in 1967, and within the state of Israel itself, as a settler-colonial racial state
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The most relevant critique of theorising Israel/Palestine as state of exception is Svirsky and Bignall's (2012) argument that Agamben's project, firmly anchored in Western
political thought, is conceived without reference to colonialism and anticolonialism, and ignores the critical interventions by colonised people engaged in acts of decolonisation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This paper engages with this critique by re-examining the theorisation of Israel as state of exception and a settler-colonial racial state (Goldberg, 2009; Wolfe, 2006), and
discussing Berdašs (2012) analysis of the bureaucracy of the West Bank permit regime as constantly producing exceptions based on racial hierarchy and replicating colonial ruling systems.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Racism, according to Foucault (2003: 255), makes it possible to establish a relationship between my life and the death of the other. In Israel/Palestine such a relationship
is enacted through a range of governmental technologies from the 1948 ethnic cleansing to current policies of land confiscations, West Bank permit regime and the ethnic cleansing of Israelšs Bedouin citizens and Palestinian subjects, all establishing a relationship
between Israelšs Jewish citizensš life and the death of the Palestinian other. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This paper is as much a Fanonian as an Agambenian project; as Agamben does not fully address the potentialities of resistance to the state of exception, I draw on Shenhav's
(2006) postcolonial reading of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, to analyse the decolonial interventions enacted by Palestinians.
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<b>For further information in Philosophy@UWS, please visit: </b></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext">http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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