A HOME HAUNTED BY STRANGERStion of the possibility of understanding and practicing Israeli sovereign power as the
enabler of testimony to (one’s) ‘‘strangerness’’ may perhaps require recognizing that there
is intrinsic value, rather than mere ‘‘tragic necessity,’’ both in transgressive solidarity and
in certain economies of life based on practical solidarity workwithandas‘‘strangers.’’
For the time being, RHR’s work suggests that productive or restorative workwithothers
can at least be an occasion to gain ethical and political agency when the order of nation-
hood is marked by a crisis of symbolic guarantors.
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