Summary
A theorist cited in Rhetorics of Belonging on citizenship, Arendt and Zionism, whose Parting Ways (2012) Bernard uses in Chapter 6’s close to link the situations of Palestinian citizens, occupied subjects and exiles (Rhetorics of Belonging, PDF p.166-167).
Details
- Bernard’s Chapter 1 notes list Butler among the influential theorists behind the shift to ‘global citizenship’ (2004, cited PDF p.174), cite her argument that the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 compelled Arendt to develop a ‘more comprehensive account of statelessness’ not limited to Europe or European Jews (2007, cited PDF p.174), and cite her on Adalah’s ‘Democratic Constitution’ (2007, cited PDF p.174).
- In Chapter 6’s close, Bernard quotes Butler that in Israel/Palestine ‘the relation between the quasi citizen, the subject of colonial occupation, and the exile are internally linked and that mechanisms exist for the conversion into ever more extreme forms of dispossession’ (2012, 212, quoted PDF p.166), and that there is a homology between the contemporary Palestinian experience of statelessness and dispossession and the Jewish history of galut (exile), both making possible a principled commitment to the protection of the rights of all minorities and refugees (2012, 214-15, cited PDF p.166).