Summary
One of the four editors of the Settler Colonial Studies special issue “Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine” (2012), and first-named author of its Editors’ Introduction, which argues that the settler colonial framework should be put firmly on the agenda of Palestine studies and that decolonisation should be restored as the imperative goal of committed scholarship (Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.1, p.4).
Details
- The introduction’s biographical note: “Omar Jabary Salamanca is completing a PhD in political and human geography at the Middle East and North Africa Research Group, Ghent University. His research examines spatial modalities of settler colonialism and uneven development in Palestine, with a particular focus on the socio-economic and political histories of infrastructure networks.” (PDF p.7)
- The special issue he co-edited emerges out of a March 2011 conference on settler colonialism in Palestine organised by the Palestine Society and the London Middle East Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies (PDF p.1).
Related pages
Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine, Mezna Qato, Kareem Rabie, Sobhi Samour, Settler Colonialism