Saturday, May 25, 2019

Living in Fantasyland

Chandni Desai, from the University of Toronto, writes in an academic paper sent to me:  "He describes how a Palestinian peasant, Abu Nidal, whose land was being confiscated by Israeli occupation forces, began to speak the land during a direct action, while simultaneously mocking the settlers inability to comprehend the living relationship Palestinians have to land. ... It is these embodied ties and practices of resistance that enable Palestinians to enact a decolonial process on a daily basis, one that constructs a present and a future beyond settler sovereignty and the imagined geography (Said, 1978) that it imposes on the land."

Having been trained and working as an engineer, it is not clear to me the meaning of this mystic nonsense. I think the University of Toronto should be more exigent toward their teachers/employees and demand them to write clear understandable English. 

Anyway, Mr Abu Nidal may keep talking the land, he may enact daily a decolonial (sic) ritual, it does not change my imagined geography (Said, 1978). He (and Prof. Desai) may happily continue living their fantasyland. 

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