Banca de DEFESA: MICHELLE JULIANNE SOUZA VENTURA

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STUDENT : MICHELLE JULIANNE SOUZA VENTURA
DATE: 02/03/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: virtual
TITLE:

Machinery of Expulsion: settler colonialism, paramilitary violence and state messianism in Palestine

KEY WORDS:

Palestine/Israel. Machinery of expulsion. Settler colonialism. Settler paramilitarism. Genocidal messianism

PAGES: 270
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUMMARY:

This work addresses the emergence of a machinery of expulsion, understood as a coercive arrangement aimed at the production, administration, and legitimation of Zionist colonial violence in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It investigates the tactics of internal organization of this violence and the modes of operation of certain agents in maintaining a permanent regime of expulsion and elimination of the native presence. The concept of a machinery of expulsion thus functions as an analytical tool capable of apprehending the articulation between discourses, practices, and technologies that operate in overlapping ways in the daily lives of Palestinian people. Through it, this work identifies lines of continuity between state policies of territorial colonization, contemporary practices of settler terrorism, and the production of a moral and legal horizon, anchored in fundamentalist religious Zionism, that authorizes the expulsion, forced displacement, and death of the Palestinian people. It takes into account the transformation of peasant and Bedouin spaces into zones of agricultural and military colonization, as well as the everyday operation of outposts as paramilitary devices of expropriation, intimidation, and attack. In doing so, it demonstrates how the machinery of expulsion operates simultaneously in territory, bodies, and discourse, sustaining ethnic cleansing as a state policy. The methodology employed included ethnographic fieldwork in Palestine in the years 2022 and 2024, in addition to analyses of documents and archives, and critical analysis of the literature

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2313763 - ANGELA MERCEDES FACUNDO NAVIA
Interno - 1358748 - CARLOS GUILHERME OCTAVIANO DO VALLE
Interna - 1211517 - ELIANE TANIA MARTINS DE FREITAS
Externa à Instituição - BARBARA CAMURU TELES - UFPR
Externa à Instituição - ARLENE ELIZABETH CLEMESHA - USP
Externa à Instituição - SONIA CRISTINA HAMID - IFB