1st Edition

Decolonial Queering in Palestine

By Walaa Alqaisiya Copyright 2023
216 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides a vivid account of the political valence of weaving queer into native positionality and the struggle for decolonisation in the settler colonial context of Palestine, referred to as decolonial queering. It discusses how processes of gender and sexuality that privilege hetero-colonising authority shaped and continue to define both the Israeli-Zionist conquest of Palestine and the... Read more

1 Introduction: Weaving Queer into Decolonisation

2 Mapping Hetero-conquest

Part 1 Unsettling

3 Native Queer Refusal

4 Queering Aesthesis

Part 2 Imagining Otherwise

5 Towards Radical Self-Determination

6 Futural Imaginaries

7 Conclusion:Decolonial Queer Beginnings

Biography

Walaa Alqaisiya is a Marie Curie Global Fellow working between Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, Columbia University in the City of New York, United States, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.