Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties - Paperback
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Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties - Paperback
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by Muhannad Ayyash (Author)
This interdisciplinary book provides timely fresh perspective on Palestine-Israel by rethinking the nature of settler-colonial sovereignty and the relationship between land and people. Muhannad Ayyash argues that this relationship comes in two distinct forms: a settler-colonial type, practiced by the Israeli state, that consists of "lordship" over land and people, and a decolonial type, seen in Palestinian popular organizing, that he calls "land as life," a reciprocal bond. The former is characterized by private ownership, possession, and violent expulsion of others; the latter by communal ownership, belonging to the land, and opposition to the violence of expulsion.
Ranging widely across theory and history, Ayyash contends that the opposition between these two types is at the core of the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. The choice before us today, he concludes, is between the continuation of the Israeli settler-colonial project in particular and the project of colonial modernity in general, or the commencement of a decolonial age in Palestine-Israel and beyond. Offering both novel theorizations and politically engaged analysis, Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel illuminates how decolonial sovereignties represent an alternative to settler-colonial violence.Author Biography
Muhannad Ayyash is professor of sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary. He is the author of A Hermeneutics of Violence: A Four-Dimensional Conception (2019). Ayyash is also a policy analyst at the think tank Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.
Number of Pages: 384
Dimensions: 0.85 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: July 22, 2025
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