Historicising Racial Militarism
This paper explores racial militarism as a framework to think about the under-theorised nexus between race and militarism. Constituted by race, I argue militarism in Europe has historically performed three functions: racial chauvinism abroad; societal exclusion at home; and delegitimation of dissent or resistance in order to carry out violence. I apply this framework to the British Mandate in Palestine between 1920 to 1948 to excavate the connections between colonial violence conducted by British forces and the above functions of racial militarism. I then briefly consider how this formed a colonial inheritance for the early Zionist movement in Palestine, with an enduring legacy of militarism in Israel today.
Dr Jasmine Gani is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. She specialises in anti-colonial theory and history, and the politics of empire, race and knowledge production.
Dr Gani obtained her PhD and MSc in International Relations from LSE, and her BA in History from King's College London.
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