Joseph Kaplan Weinger is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research, situated in political sociology, spans the history of colonial state-making. He examines the depredation wrought by colonial settlement and the institutions erected in its wake. A historian of late-modern and contemporary Palestine, his current research examines the causes and consequences of coercive territorial redistribution and the wavering relations between settlers and the Israeli state.
Joseph Kaplan Weinger is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research, situated in political sociology, spans the history of colonial state-making. He examines the depredation wrought by colonial settlement and the institutions erected in its wake. A historian of late-modern and contemporary Palestine, his current research examines the causes and consequences of coercive territorial redistribution and the wavering relations between settlers and the Israeli state.