« The settler colonial soundscape: Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies, University of Minnesota Press, 2020
Seeing settlers and their others (then and now): Anna Brickhouse, ‘Hemispheric Literary Networks and José Martíɴs Charleston Earthquake’, in Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Graciela Montaldo (eds), The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Routledge, 2024 »

Seeing settlers while being settlers (then, but also now): Asa McKercher, ‘Canadian Orientalism: Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East in the ‘Golden Age’ of Canadian Foreign Policy’, The International History Review, 2024

19Oct24

Abstract: Beyond the issues of Palestine’s partition and the Suez crisis, the Middle East has received little attention within the history of Canadian international relations. And yet, in 1947 and in 1956, Canadian officials undertook fateful actions that shaped this region’s politics. This paper examines Canadian foreign policy toward the Middle East during the 1940s and 1950s, the so-called golden age of Canada’s international influence. In this period, and despite a reputation as honest brokers, Canadian officials came to identify with and support Israel, a country they viewed favourably because they saw it as a fellow Western state that stood out from its Oriental neighbours. Examining how Canadian foreign policy elites viewed Israel, Palestine, the wider Arab world, and the people of these regions during the 1940s and 1950s, this paper traces Orientalism’s important influence on Canada’s relations with the Middle East and stance toward the Arab-Israeli conflict.


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