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Dr Lana Tatour

Dr Lana Tatour

Senior Lecturer

Tatour听earned her PhD in Politics and International Studies in 2017 from the University of Warwick in the U.K and holds听an MSc. in NGOs and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Social Sciences


Lana Tatour is a Lecturer in Development听at the School of Social Sciences, 麻豆社madou Sydney.听She works on settler colonialism, indigeneity, race, citizenship, human rights, and the Middle East with a focus on Palestine and Israel. Prior to joining the School of Social Sciences, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, and held visiting fellowships听at the Palestinian-American Research Center, the Australian Human Rights Centre, 麻豆社madou Faculty of Law and 麻豆社madou School of Social Sciences. She is on the听board of听The Australian Journal of Human Rights. She is听currently working on her manuscript Ambivalent Resistance: Palestinians in Israel and听the Liberal Politics of Settler Colonialism and Human Rights,听and on an edited volume together with Dr Ronit Lentin on Race and the Question of Palestine.听

Location
Morven Brown 112A
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Tatour A; Tatour L, 2023, 'The criminalization and racialization of Palestinian resistance to settler colonialism', in The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice, Routledge, pp. 91 - 102,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Tatour L, 2018, 'Reply', in Contending Legitimacy in World Politics, Routledge, pp. 163 - 168,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Tatour L; Tatour A, 2024, 'Toward an Anti-colonial Approach to Violent Crime among 鈥48 Palestinians', Journal of Palestine Studies, 53, pp. 126 - 136,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Tatour L, 2024, 'Censoring Palestine: human rights, academic freedom and the IHRA', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 30, pp. 106 - 114,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Cristiano F; Dadusc D; Davanna T; Duff K; Gilmore J; Rossdale C; Rossi F; Tatour A; Tatour L; Tufail W; Weizman E, 2023, 'Criminalisation of political activism: a conversation across disciplines', Critical Studies on Security, 11, pp. 106 - 125,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tatour L, 2023, 'In Memoriam: Elia Zureik', Journal of Palestine Studies, 52, pp. 100 - 102,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tatour L, 2021, 'The Nation-State LawNegotiating Liberal Settler Colonialism', Critical Times, 4, pp. 577 - 587,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tatour L, 2021, 'The 鈥淯nity Intifada鈥 and 鈥48 Palestinians: Between the Liberal and the Decolonial', Journal of Palestine Studies, 50, pp. 84 - 89,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Tatour L, 2019, 'Citizenship as Domination: Settled Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel', Arab Studies Journal, VOL. XXVII,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Tatour L, 2019, 'The culturalisation of indigeneity: the Palestinian-Bedouin of the Naqab and indigenous rights', The International Journal of Human Rights, 23, pp. 1569 - 1593,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Tatour L, 2019, 'Traces of racial exception: racializing Israeli settler colonialism', British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 46, pp. 514 - 515,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Tatour L, 2018, 'Review: Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, by Hagar Kotef', Journal of Palestine Studies, 47, pp. 86 - 88,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Tatour L, 2016, 'Re: The Israeli left: Part of the problem or the solution? A response to Giulia Daniele', Global Discourse, 6, pp. 487 - 492,
  • Preprints |
    Tatour L, Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel,
  • Media | 2018
    Tatour L, 2018, A History of Palestinian Dispossession, ,

Selected Grants and Awards:

  • Race, Religion, and the Question of Palestine,听Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Columbia University.
  • Ibrahim Abu Lughod Postdoctoral Award,听Center听for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
  • Grant Writing Fellowship,听Faculty Law, University of New South Wales
  • Research Grant, Mada al-Carmel: Arab听Center听for Applied Social Research
  • Research Grant,British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)听
  • Research Grant,Palestinian American Research Center
  • Research Grant,Council for British Research in the Levant

Tatour's doctoral research was awarded as runner-up in the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for best Ph.D. dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

My Teaching

ARTS2754 - Development Research

ARTS2751- International Development

SOCW7852 - Politics of International Aid