Palestinian scholars pioneered settler-colonial theory in the 1960s

Evidence

Academic theorizing of settler colonialism in Palestine (as opposed to its emergence in the popular and political consciousness) was initiated in the 1960s by Palestinians and others. Thus, the PLO Research Center in Beirut published Fayez Sayegh’s (1965) book, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, and other scholars engaged settler colonialism theoretically (see, e. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 449

Categorization

• XREF: Reciprocal to the reader’s notes on how the term ‘settler-colonial’ as analytic frame was itself built by colonized scholars before mainstream adoption. — connects to: Geopolitical realpolitik shifted the dominant Palestinian framing from settler-colonial to national-conflict — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 450

Broader Connections

• Geopolitical realpolitik shifted the dominant Palestinian framing from settler-colonial to national-conflict #expands (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 450