1948 to 1951: The racial politics of humanitarianism and return in Palestine

Shaira Vadasaria

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1128

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Shaira Vadasaria School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1128

Palabras clave:

raza, compensaciones, retorno, humanitarismo, Palestina

Resumen

La cuestión irresoluta del desplazamiento palestino plantea importantes consideraciones en una era de reparaciones del colonialismo de asentamiento. Una de las líneas de investigación que continúa siendo relevante para reflexionar sobre el futuro de la resolución del desplazamiento palestino es la siguiente: ¿Cómo llegó la sociedad indígena palestina, con lazos históricos con la tierra, a ser considerada y gobernada como sociedad refugiada ajena a la tierra? Haciendo un repaso de unos informes de progreso escritos por el conde Folke Bernadotte, primer Mediador para Palestina de las Naciones Unidas, este artículo reflexiona sobre cómo una cuestión de justicia reparadora basada en la tierra quedó incorporada en una estructura humanitaria, la cual tiene ya siete décadas de existencia. Centrando la lucha por el retorno como sitio de contestación ontológica, planteo cómo se pueden leer esas decisiones clave tomadas entre 1948 y 1951 acerca de la reparación y la emergencia de la gobernanza humanitaria como parte de, y dentro de una genealogía más amplia de raza y colonialismo de asentamiento en Palestina.

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Shaira Vadasaria, School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh

Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies.

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