Nicola Perugini - The Human Right to Dominate

The Human Right to Dominate

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This book is the result of a friendship and a fertile scholarly exchange. Over the last few years, hardly a day has passed in which we have not bounced ideas or thoughts off each other. Each one of us has intervened in practically every paragraph, sentence, and word in this book. Every line has been constantly questioned, revisited, rearticulated, and at times erasedto such an extent that our individual contributions are currently almost unrecognizable. We consequently share equal responsibility for both the contributions and the mistakes the book might contain. The intellectual curiosity and affinity we have developed during the writing of The Human Right to Dominate is already consolidating into a new book project about human shielding, a topic that we begin to develop in . We have therefore, by mutual consent, decided to let Nicola Perugini be the first author of The Human Right to Dominate, while Neve Gordon will be the first author of the second book On Human Shielding, which we expect to publish in the near future.

Our encounter was made possible by generous fellowships awarded to both of us by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The School of Social Science and the IAS campuss beautiful environment provided us with an incredible space for exchanging ideas. We are particularly grateful to Joan Scott and Didier Fassin for inviting us to the IAS and for encouraging us to complete this project. Danielle Allen, Lucas Bessire, Vincent Dubois, David Eng, Sara Farris, Moon-Kie Jung, Peter Thomas, Jens Meierhenrich, and Laurence Ralph have all read parts of the manuscript during our stay at IAS and offered very helpful suggestions.

Another person who made this book possible is Clifford Bob, a coeditor of Oxfords Culture and Politics series. Cliff pushed us to embark on this project and read drafts of the manuscript at different stages while providing us with meticulous and insightful comments, which then forced us to rethink some of our claims and to reformulate others. Lisa Hajjar, Catherine Rottenberg, and Rebecca Stein have also read the whole manuscript and pushed us to make our arguments clearer and more precise, as did James Cook, the sociology editor at OUP.

Different people read earlier drafts of chapters or commented on them during various presentations. We are grateful to Nasser Abourahme, Ala Alazzeh, Lorenzo Alunni, Merav Amir, Valentina Azarov, Roberto Beneduce, Nitza Berkovitch, Eduardo Cadava, Alice Cherki, Gerard Daniel Cohen, Yinon Cohen, Elliott Colla, Armando Cutolo, Emilio Dabed, Joyce Dalsheim, Dani Filc, Michal Givoni, Saleh Hijazi, Sandi Hilal, Thomas Keenan, Nadim Khoury, Hagar Kotef, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Stefano Jacoviello, Luciano Li Causi, Miriam Lowi, Anne Norton, Zia Mian, Sunaina Maria, Julie Peteet, Alessandro Petti, Kareem Rabie, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Noga Rotem, Tommaso Sbriccoli, Majid Shihade, Pier Giorgio Solinas, Simona Taliani, Oraib Toukan, Lorenzo Veracini, Eyal Weizman, Niza Yanay, Oren Yiftachel, Tirdad Zolghadr, and Francesco Zucconi.

After the year at IAS, the Al Quds Bard College in Palestine gave further support to Nicola during the writing process, allowing him to adapt his courses and workload to his writing needs. The University of Siena provided Nicola with a postdoctoral fellowship that allowed him to write the article The Human Right to the Colony with Kareem Rabie, which inspired of this book. Nicola is also extremely grateful to Brown University, where he completed the book as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cogut Center for the Humanities with a fellowship in Italian and Middle East Studies. Special thanks go to Beshara Doumani, Michael Steinberg, Suzanne Stewart and Massimo Riva for giving him the opportunity to continue his work and research at Brown.

Neve wishes to thank Gal Ariely, Dani Filc, Michal Givoni, Becky Kook, David Newman, Jennifer Oser, Sharon Pardo, Renee Poznanski, Ahmad Saadi, Lynn Schler, and Haim Yacobi, members of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, for their ongoing support over the years.

The Human Right to Dominate

Figure 1.

Map of Israel/Palestine.

Source: Neve Gordon, Israels Occupation.