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David Lloyd

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Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, working primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory, and author of ‘Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel’ in Settler Colonial Studies 2, 1 (2012), which argues that Israel’s oscillation between normality and exceptionality is explained by its being an exemplary settler colonial project, and that its permanent State of Exception, governed by Hyperlegality, models the emerging global norm (Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, PDF p.1, 19 / printed p.59, 77).

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  • The Biographical Note lists his books as Nationalism and Minor Literature (1987), Anomalous States (1993), Ireland After History (1999), Irish Times: Temporalities of Irish Modernity (2008), and Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011), with two further books in progress at publication, a study of Samuel Beckett’s visual aesthetics and a work on aesthetics, race and representation (PDF p.19 / printed p.77).

  • Co-published works listed in the same note: The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (1991), with Abdul JanMohamed; Culture and the State (1997), co-authored with Paul Thomas; The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with Lisa Lowe; and The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas (2008), edited with Peter D. O’Neill (PDF p.19).

  • In the article, Ireland is his comparative case for settler colonial emergency law: the 105 Coercion Acts of 1800-1921 and the permanent Special Powers Act in Northern Ireland, 1922-1972 (PDF p.14 / printed p.72).

  • The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict points, at note 12, to Lloyd’s ‘Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel’, settler colonial studies, 2, 1, 2012 (forthcoming), as a Memmian analysis of the colonial dimensions of Zionist/Israeli control of Palestinian life, in support of the claim that colonial relationships produce the co-constitution of coloniser and colonised (PDF p.8, note 12 / printed p.7).

Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, State of Exception, Albert Memmi, Giorgio Agamben, Settler Colonialism

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