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In 'Decolonizing Palestine', Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, he examines the two seemingly contradictory, yet coexistent, anticolonial and postcolonial modes of politics adopted by Hamas following the organization's unexpected victory in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election. Despite the expectations of experts, Hamas has persisted as both an armed resistance to Israeli settler colonial rule and as a governing body.

Politics and government. --- Palestinian Arabs --- Israelis --- HISTORY / Middle East / Israel --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Jews --- Colonization. --- Colonization --- Politics and government --- Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah. --- Mouvement de la résistance islamique --- Islamic Resistance Movement --- Ḥamās --- Ḥarakat Ḥamās --- חמאס --- חמ״ס --- حركات التحرير --- حركة المقاومة الإسلامية --- حماس --- حركة حماس --- Islamic Resistance Organization --- Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya --- Gaza Strip. --- Gaza Strip --- Qiṭāʻ Ghazzah --- Retsuʻat ʻAzah --- Palestine --- Liberation, Hamas, Coexistence of the antocolonial and postcolonial, colinization, settler colonialism.

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The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank explores the manner in which the Palestinian Authority’s performative acts affect and shape the lives and subjective identities of those in its vicinity in the occupied West Bank. The nature of Palestinians’ statelessness has to contend with the rituals of statecraft that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Palestinian functionaries engage in. These rituals are also economically maintained by an international donor community and are vehemently challenged by Palestinian activists, antagonistic to the prevalence of the statist agenda in Palestine. Conceptually, the understanding of the PA’s ‘theater of statecraft’ is inspired by Judith Butler’s conception of performativity as one that encompasses several repetitive and ritual performative acts. The authors explore what they refer to as the ‘fuzzy state' (personified in the form and conduct of the PA) looks like for those living it, from the vantage point of PA institutions, NGOs, international representative offices, and activists. Methodologically, the book adopts an ethnographic approach, by way of interviews and observations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank makes an important and long-due intervention by integrating performance studies and politics to suggest an understanding of the theatrics of woeful statecraft in Palestine. The book is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in the study of the state, International Relations and Politics, Palestine Studies, and the Middle East.

Palestinian Arabs --- Nation-building --- Civil society --- State, The. --- Performative (Philosophy) --- Politics and government. --- Palestinian National Authority