Global Palestine, by Professor of Global Studies John Collins

1/16/12

SLU Professor Author Of New Book, Global Palestine

CANTON - The nature and extent of the rights owed to Palestinians are explored in a new book by St. Lawrence University Professor of Global Studies John Collins, titled Global Palestine, published by Columbia University Press/Hurst and released January 17.

Publishers state, Global Palestine provides a unique perspective on one of the world's most enduring political controversies by exploring two deceptively simple questions: What does 'Palestine' mean outside of local arenas, and how does the idea of 'Palestine' drive larger social and political developments?"

Collins argues in the book that contemporary Palestine is the site of an ongoing project of settler colonization; that Palestine's global importance is increasing in inverse proportion to the size of the territory actually controlled by Palestinians (as the growing movement of international solidarity indicates); and that the supposedly local struggle over Palestinian rights in fact reflects four global processes shaping the conditions in which we live - colonization, securitization, acceleration and occupation - and is therefore intricately connected to them.

The author of Occupied By Memory: The Intifada Generation and The Palestinian State of Emergency, Collins is coeditor, with Ross Glover, of Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Social Text, Globalizations and Middle East Report, among other publications. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative studies in discourse and society from the University of Minnesota, where he was a MacArthur Scholar.

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