Inter/Nationalism

The age of transnational humanities has arrived. According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian Studses and American Indian studies have more in common than one may think. In "Inter/Nationalism, "Salaita argues that American Indian and Indigenous studies must be more central to the scholarship and activism focusing on Palestine.Salaita offers a fascinating inside account of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement which, among other things, aims to end Israel s occupation of Palestinian land. In doing so, he emphasizes BDS s significant potential as an organizing entity as well as its importance in the creation of intellectual and political communities that put Natives and other colonized peoples such as Palestinians into conversation.