Summary
Author of Global Palestine (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), quoted by the editors of the 2012 Settler Colonial Studies special issue for the two objectives of critically engaged scholarship — understanding the structures that produce the present reality in Palestine, and thinking creatively about how that understanding might transform it (Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.4).
Details
- The editors introduce the quotation as Collins’s statement of the challenge: “is to bring all the relevant tools of critically engaged scholarship […] in order to pursue two related objectives: to understand the complex set of structures and processes […] that have combined to produce the intolerable reality evident today; and to think creatively about how this understanding might enable individuals to transform that reality.” (PDF p.4, citing Global Palestine, p.10, note 7 on PDF p.8)
- Global Palestine is also listed in the editors’ note 4 among the notable exceptions to the absence of settler colonial analysis in Palestine studies (PDF p.7-8).
Related pages
Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine, Settler Colonialism, Decolonisation