The devastation to which Gaza has been subjected in the last few weeks seems to be yet another repetition of Israeli settler-colonial apparatus’ habit of destruction. Gaza has become emblematic of this habit, because in recent years it has so frequently been subjected to bombing while under a state of siege, but like all settler-colonialisms, the violence of the state is rooted not in an episodic “cycle of violence” but in the very ideology and practice of the settler-colonial movement.

Monique Allewaert speaks with Angela Last about her new book, "Ariel’s Ecology: Personhood and Colonialism in the American Tropics, 1760-1820".

Maha Samman has written an important contribution to understanding the political and urban geographies of the situation in Israel/Palestine. In common with other analyses, Samman wants to understand Israel, and earlier Zionist practices, as colonialism.

In an era when neoliberal universities are restricting our research imaginaries into short term metrics (e.g. citations, impact factors, league tables), it is heartening to read such a bold and ambitious book. While there are many excellent things about The Right To Look, the most impressive is its refusal to contain its intellectual horizon to one case study, one historical era, or one theorist.

In this book, Ngũgĩ revisits these themes to consider new prospects for the creation and expansion of a literary space freed from the “straightjackets of nationalism.” He calls forth and performs a literary space of “globalectics” where, like a globe, on the surface every point is equally a center, though each is also equidistant from the internal center (page 8)