Edited Books by Timothy Seidel
This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and conte... more This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism. Based on original empirical fieldwork, the contributors to this book adopt interdisciplinary and decolonial approaches in their examination of the intricate functions and structures of domination that permeate Palestinian life by illuminating the power dynamics at play and revealing the mechanisms that sustain the settler-colonial regime. This book identifies sites of colonial control and domination exerted on Palestine by Israel, and demonstrates how these sites of control are also sites of Palestinian resistance. The first section explores the political sites of control by focusing on governmentality, institutions, and technologies and mechanisms of control including how Israel manages access to health, life and death. The second section examines the economic mechanisms of exploitation, dispossession, and de-development including banking, taxation and the relationships between finance capital, aid and military occupation. The third section turns attention to environmental sites of control, focusing on land, indigeneity, space and racial capitalism. Finally, section four scrutinizes the intellectual sites of control, highlighting how norms, narratives, and knowledge production perpetuate domination.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
"The Political Economy of Palestine is the ‘go to’ collection of timely essays committed to liber... more "The Political Economy of Palestine is the ‘go to’ collection of timely essays committed to liberation and decolonisation. A fabulous yet daunting read." - Professor Ray Bush, University of Leeds | "This book will prove to be an essential resource for students of the Arab-Israeli conflict." - Professor Elia Zureik, Queen’s University | "This brilliant book brings together some of the most innovative and critical work on the political economy of Palestine today. A fascinating collection that makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian struggle - past, present, and future." - Professor Adam Hanieh, SOAS University of London | "Edward Said wrote: 'We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.' This book provides both." - Professor Mandy Turner, University of Manchester | This book explores the political economy of Palestine through critical, interdisciplinary, and decolonial perspectives, underscoring that an approach to economics that does not consider the political—a de-politicized economics—is inadequate to understanding the situation in occupied Palestine. A critical interdisciplinary approach to political economy challenges prevailing neoliberal logics and structures that reproduce racial capitalism, and explores how the political economy of occupied Palestine is shaped by processes of accumulation by exploitation and dispossession from both Israel and global business, as well as from Palestinian elites. A decolonial approach to Palestinian political economy foregrounds struggles against neoliberal and settler colonial policies and institutions, and aids in the de-fragmentation of Palestinian life, land, and political economy that the Oslo Accords perpetuated, but whose histories of de-development over all of Palestine can be traced back for over a century. The chapters in this book offer an in-depth contextualization of the Palestinian political economy, analyze the political economy of integration, fragmentation, and inequality, and explore and problematize multiple sectors and themes of political economy in the absence of sovereignty.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
“Palestine and Rule of Power, with its exceptionally fine analytical contributions relying on the... more “Palestine and Rule of Power, with its exceptionally fine analytical contributions relying on the highest quality of scholarship, is an extraordinary confirmation of the vitality and resilience of the Palestinian people.” - Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, USA | “Bringing together an impressive list of scholarly and intellectual talents, Palestine and Rule of Power makes an important and distinctive contribution to that growing body of literature examining features of local dissent and resistance and international governance in occupied Palestine.” - Fawaz A. Gerges, Professor, London School of Economics, UK | “If readers are seeking an honest depiction of how the oppressive power operates on the ground in Palestine and more importantly how it is resisted, you cannot ask for a better guide than this valuable and informative volume. Recording the resistance to evil power is by itself an act of resistance.” - Ilan Pappe, Professor, University of Exeter, UK | “Through rigorous and bold new theorizing, Palestine and Rule of Power has a place in any core library on theory of this conflict.” - Virginia Tilley, Professor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA | This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance. The project considers expressions of the rule of power in two particular ways: settler colonialism and neoliberalism. As power is always accompanied by resistance, the authors engage with and explores forms of everyday resistance to the logics and regimes of neoliberal governance and settler colonialism. They investigate wide-ranging issues and dynamics related to international governance, liberal peacebuilding, statebuilding, and development, the claim to politics, and the notion and practice of resistance. This work will be of interest for academics focusing on modern Middle Eastern politics, international relations, as well as for courses on contemporary conflicts, peacebuilding, and development.
Lexington Books, Aug 2018
The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding assesses the peacebuilding implications and societal impact... more The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding assesses the peacebuilding implications and societal impact of the Hizmet Movement, characterized as a pacifist and inclusive expression of Islam. With a range of both supporters and critics, the studies of the Hizmet Movement presented in these cases provide a counter to negative stereotypes with examples of positive educational institutions rooted in Islamic values. The book includes contributions from scholars and practitioners around the world that critically explore the intersection of the movement and peacebuilding in countries such as Northern Iraq, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498537513/The-Hizmet-Movement-and-Peacebuilding-Global-Cases
Journal Articles by Timothy Seidel
International Politics, 2024
In Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice, Azmi Bishara offers a broad overview of the history a... more In Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice, Azmi Bishara offers a broad overview of the history and current situation in occupied Palestine. In this article, I focus on the political (theo)logic that has shaped much of that history and continues to shape the militarism and settler colonialism Bishara describes with analytical depth. We might call these political theologies of replacement. And as Bishara underscores throughout his book, Palestinian presence and struggle are no less a part of that story—struggles themselves animated by political theologies of steadfastness. It is important to explore these political theologies because of the impact they have had on Palestinians’ experiences. This exploration is also important because it points us towards other cases or shared experiences particularly of settler colonial replacement and Indigenous steadfastness that set the stage for anticolonial connectivity and transnational solidarity.
Postcolonial Studies, 2023
Borders, barriers, and walls separate and divide. The construction of walls, militarization of bo... more Borders, barriers, and walls separate and divide. The construction of walls, militarization of borders, and confiscation of land can be observed throughout the histories of settler colonialism with violent material and bodily effects, especially as it has been inflected through the logic and structures of racial capitalism. And yet, as borders, barriers, and walls ‘harden’ through new security practices, local struggles emerge that transgress, cross boundaries, and express anticolonial connectivities. This article examines one case of this along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border, where we observe both the coordination between the U.S., Israel and global business in the ‘hardening’ of border regimes, and struggles against that border violence seen with protesters in Los Angeles demanding human rights for Latin American migrants and Palestinians or campaigns for a ‘World Without Walls’. It argues that these anticolonial connectivities are examples of boundary-crossing work that bridge gaps and separations maintained by colonial domination and become powerful acts of resistance against those regimes.
Postcolonial Studies, 2022
This special issue examines the connections among (post)colonial spaces forged in the struggle fo... more This special issue examines the connections among (post)colonial spaces forged in the struggle for national liberation and after. The focus on anticolonial/postcolonial connectivity indicates the existence of alternative forms of spatiality that go beyond the linear (and hierarchical) relationship between metropole and colonial spaces. Here we seek to challenge the dominant focus in the literature on the relations between colonial metropoles or hegemonic centres and colonized spaces. Rather we explore the ways through which colonized and postcolonial subjects cultivated knowledge ‘sideways’, meaning they inter-connected tactically, materially and intellectually without needing to call upon the imperial centre for interpretation or authorization. In surveying the connections between Algeria, Vietnam, Libya and Palestine, for example, or between Palestine and Mexico, between Islamic revivalist groups in the Middle East and the Asian subcontinent, in the making of Pan-Africanism and the anticolonial Caribbean, or the fragile moments of connections and solidarity in the Balkans - the articles in this special issue investigate a variety of anticolonial and postcolonial connectivities as well as a complex politics of solidarity that highlights both limits and blind spots but also untapped potentialities.
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2019
This essay explores the concept of political economies of resistance in Palestine as an alternati... more This essay explores the concept of political economies of resistance in Palestine as an alternative to the anticolonial imaginary articulated by nationalist visions, and the potential for liberation offered by local actors who articulate these political economies of resistance. It considers Frantz Fanon’s vision of national consciousness, its relevance to Palestinian resistance in the context of settler colonialism, and its aid in the articulation of political economies of resistance as a way to imagine otherwise in global politics. The impact of the Oslo peace process is discussed as a signalling of the end of a sort of Palestinian anticolonial utopia, with particular attention to the Palestinian nationalism embodied by leadership such as the Palestinian Authority, and its weddedness to liberal notions of economics and politics. It then considers contemporary Palestinian claims of politics and economies of resistance that are both local and transnational in their articulation, arguing that nationalist commitments to anticolonial utopias foreclose, not only the ability to imagine otherwise in global politics, but also obscure the otherwise already interrupting the histories of colonial modernity.
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2019
This special issue emerges from the debates around the ideas of violence, liberation, and nationa... more This special issue emerges from the debates around the ideas of violence, liberation, and national consciousness. The catalyst that prompted us to interrogate both the necessity of the nation-state form within decolonization, and the need to excavate and illuminate what Gary Wilder (2015, xi) called “non-national orientations to decolonization” was provided by Frantz Fanon’s reflections on national consciousness. In Wretched of the Earth, Fanon (2004, 179) states that “[n]ational consciousness, which is not nationalism, is alone capable of giving us an international dimension.” The immediate and obvious question that took shape was: what exactly is national consciousness, and how is it different from nationalism? Taking Fanon’s prompt, the contributions to this special issue launch the following provocations: what anti-colonial imaginaries and projects existed that did not envisage the end of colonialism as the beginning of nationalism? How and to what extent do these anticolonial imaginaries and projects confront the postcolonial settlements of the contemporary global order? Last but not least, what are the limits/traps of attempts to escape the nation?
Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 2017
The political and economic geography of occupied Palestinian territory presents significant const... more The political and economic geography of occupied Palestinian territory presents significant constraints to the livelihoods of Palestinian families. And yet the story of many Palestinian families is one not of resignation but of steadfastness and resistance. This article explores this as an important example of civil resistance. It begins by building a theoretical case for giving greater attention to the constitutive role of marginalised people in the production of concepts and practices of civil resistance claiming that this helps us identify overlooked and seemingly everyday practices of colonised groups. Next it explores the case of one Palestinian family farm in the west Bethlehem village of Nahhalin as an example of alternative imagined geographies and communities that present a refusal to Israeli colonial occupation. It argues that this refusal is an expression of civil resistance that constitutes a counter-map that rejects Israel’s settler-colonial map of their farmland by refusing to leave, and that rejects the violence of the state and its claims to sovereignty by ‘refusing to be enemies’.
Third World Quarterly, 2016
In his 1966 essay ‘A Report from Occupied Territory’, James Baldwin wrote that ‘occupied territor... more In his 1966 essay ‘A Report from Occupied Territory’, James Baldwin wrote that ‘occupied territory is occupied territory, even though it be found in that New World which the Europeans conquered’. Though written 50 years ago, Baldwin’s observations continue to resonate, indicating historical trends across geographical experiences affected by the legacy of colonialism. A growing theme in development and peace building studies relates to a kind of boundary crossing that sees academics and activists drawing linkages across spatial and temporal divides. The situation in Palestine–Israel has taken an increasingly central role in mobilising transnational solidarities that cross such boundaries. By examining James Baldwin’s analysis of Harlem’s ‘occupation’ – as well as drawing from a range of voices such as Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Toni Morrison and Laleh Khalili – this paper will explore the shared experiences of racism, colonialism, military occupation and dispossession that separate and divide, and the possibilities for transnational solidarities that defy those separations.
CrossCurrents, 2012
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].
Book Chapters by Timothy Seidel
Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism, 2024
Explorations of settler colonialism and Indigenous struggle in Palestine emphasize that a decolon... more Explorations of settler colonialism and Indigenous struggle in Palestine emphasize that a decolonial analysis not only gives attention to enduring indigeneity but also to the role of land in the struggle for autonomy, sovereignty, and self-determination. This chapter makes the case for investing agency in both Palestinian communities and their relation with the land as an inseparable part of those communities—defining enduring indigeneity in political and economic terms that defy the logics of settler colonialism and capital. In occupied Palestine, “everyday” acts of resistance and popular struggle take the form of sumud or steadfastness, that may not be about a pre-determined political economic telos per se but about existence, being, land, and a refusal of erasure and elimination. With this framework and understanding of popular struggle, we begin to hear and see a much larger and more powerful landscape of resistance to settler violence in occupied Palestine, for example in this case of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills.
Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism, 2024
The enduring struggle of Palestinians against Israel’s settler colonial regime reveals a dynamic ... more The enduring struggle of Palestinians against Israel’s settler colonial regime reveals a dynamic interplay between increasingly sophisticated forms of domination and the emergence of novel modes of resistance. This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism. This chapter provides an overview of the book, identifying several sites of colonial control and domination exerted on Palestine by Israel, and demonstrating how these sites of domination are also sites of Palestinian resistance. The first section explores the political sites of control by focusing on governmentality, institutions, and technologies and mechanisms of control including how Israel manages access to health, life and death. The second section examines the economic mechanisms of exploitation, dispossession, and de-development including banking, taxation and the relationships between finance capital, aid and military occupation. The third section turns attention to environmental sites of control, focusing on land, indigeneity, space and racial capitalism. Finally, section four scrutinizes the intellectual sites of control, highlighting how norms, narratives, and knowledge production perpetuate domination.
The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation, 2022
Mediation is about relationships, movement, and crossing boundaries. This boundary-crossing is al... more Mediation is about relationships, movement, and crossing boundaries. This boundary-crossing is always mediated through historical experiences of culture, religion, and power. An effective mediator attends to these experiences as influential factors in a conflict. In this chapter, we explore how culture and religion are meaningful and meaning-making elements to conflict and mediation, why this is important to understanding power and empowerment, and the ways that interfaith engagement offers lessons to mediators. We conclude by discussing several principles, processes, and biases for the mediator to consider when accounting for these dynamics.
Political Economy of Palestine Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives, 2021
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives, 2021
This chapter explores the structures and processes of settler colonialism in occupied Palestine, ... more This chapter explores the structures and processes of settler colonialism in occupied Palestine, how it constrains the livelihoods of Palestinians, and how Palestinians respond to those social, political, and economic realities. Much work has been done in recent years to understand these dynamics and the difference a frame or approach that gives attention to settler colonialism and indigeneity makes for understanding Palestinian life and land. This chapter provides an overview of that discussion and explores land-based configurations of power, struggle, and resistance—resistance that envisions alternative understandings of land and the everyday acts that express those visions. In doing so, it begins to explore the contours of a decolonial approach to political economy that foregrounds land and the experience of indigeneity in the context of racialized settler colonialism—an approach that also uncovers global, transnational, anti-colonial inflections of that struggle. Exploring settler colonialism and political economies of resistance in Palestine underscores a decolonial approach that not only gives attention to enduring indigeneity, erasure, and interpretation, but also to the role of land in social and political economy in the struggle for autonomy, sovereignty, and self-determination.
Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance, 2019
The physical fragmentation of the West Bank—and of the West Bank from Gaza—along with Israel’s se... more The physical fragmentation of the West Bank—and of the West Bank from Gaza—along with Israel’s settlement expansion and its complete control over the Palestinian economy, has demonstrated not only the ineffectiveness but the disempowering effects of the territorial divisions outlined in the Oslo Accords. The political and economic geography of occupied Palestinian territory presents significant constraints to Palestinian livelihoods. And yet the story of many Palestinian communities is not one of resignation but of steadfastness and resistance. This chapter will explore the ways in which this resistance is rendered visible or invisible, with particular attention to the ways in which the violence of Israel’s settler colonial occupation is rendered invisible through its linkage to concepts of sovereignty and the state that erase bodily violence and bodily resistance to that violence (via the state’s claims of sovereignty). This interrogation of sovereignty aids in our decentering of the state and the centering of embodied subjectivities as we explore expressions of resistance and local dissent in Palestine.
This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining fea... more This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance. The project considers expressions of the rule of power in two particular ways: settler colonialism and neoliberalism. As power is always accompanied by resistance, the authors engage with and explore forms of everyday resistance to the logics and regimes of neoliberal governance and settler colonialism. They investigate wide-ranging issues and dynamics related to international governance, liberal peacebuilding, statebuilding, and development, the claim to politics, and the notion and practice of resistance. This work will be of interest for academics focusing on modern Middle Eastern politics, international relations, as well as for courses on contemporary conflicts, peacebuilding, and development.
Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance, 2019
This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining fea... more This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance. The book considers expressions of the rule of power in two particular ways: settler colonialism and neoliberalism. As power is always accompanied by resistance, this book engages with and explores forms of everyday resistance to the logics and regimes of neoliberal governance and settler colonialism. The book interrogates a wide-ranging issues and dynamics related to international governance, liberal peacebuilding, statebuilding, and development, the claim to politics, and the notion and practice of resistance. This chapter introduces these concepts and their analytical purchase in understanding the current situation in Palestine, and provides an overview of the volume.
Uploads
Edited Books by Timothy Seidel
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498537513/The-Hizmet-Movement-and-Peacebuilding-Global-Cases
Journal Articles by Timothy Seidel
Book Chapters by Timothy Seidel
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498537513/The-Hizmet-Movement-and-Peacebuilding-Global-Cases
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/escaping-the-nation-w-alina-sajed-and-timothy-seidel/id1440795663?i=1000444278549