Date: 9 October 2024
Time: 10:00-11:45
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm
Research seminar with Bashir Bashir, associate professor of political theory at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Abstract
This talk argues that egalitarian bi-nationalism is the most promising and defensible answer to ending the Israeli occupation and colonization and achieving peace in Israel/ Palestine. It argues that egalitarian bi-nationalism is better equipped to address the underlying issues of the conflict in Israel/Palestine than conventional and new frames in the existing literature. Egalitarian bi-nationalism, the talk argues, better satisfies the urge for self-determination of Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews than the benign neglect majoritarianism of the liberal state or ethnic secession and the partition of the two-state solution. The proposed research argues that egalitarian bi-nationalism’s insistence on envisioning affective relations of co-belonging based on an ethics of equality, parity, mutual legitimacy, and cohabitation offers rich resources for historical reconciliation and decolonization in Israel/Palestine.
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