« The settler colonial census: Sarah Dees, ‘Religion on the Brink: Settler-Colonial Knowledge Production in the US Census’, in Tisa Wenger, Sylvester A. Johnson (eds), Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories, New York University Press, 2022, pp. 85-102
Gendered settler colonialism (it’s always gendered): Katrine Barber, ‘I Just Had to Do Most Everything’: Gender, Settlement and American Empire in the Far West, MA dissertation, Portland State University, 2022 »

Yearning for a settler country that never was: Callie Maidhof, ‘Settler Nostalgia: Colonizing Temporalities and the Genre of Coexistence’, Cultural Critique, 116, 2022, pp. 92-118

26Jul22

Abstract: For Jewish Israelis in the West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe, nostalgia for the early years of settlement entails a fantasy of coexistence with Palestinians. This fantasy responds to contemporary peacemaking discourses, reimagining the role of settlement from a practice engendering conflict to one that is an integral part of the peacemaking project. Settler nostalgia is thus a temporal orientation with important political consequences. Scholarly debates have focused on the universalizing, modernizing temporality of settler colonialism, but neither this nor the state-centered historicity of hegemonic accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be the only or even the most relevant temporal frames for contemporary Zionist settlement in the West Bank of Palestine. This article examines settler temporal strategies as a crucial part of how one settlement has not only survived but also has grown and flourished in the nearly forty years since its founding.


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