Lana Tatour

Lana Tatour is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on settler colonialism, human rights, and indigenous resistance, particularly among Palestinian citizens of Israel (’48 Palestinians). She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Warwick (2017), recognized with the Leigh Douglas Memorial runner-up prize for her dissertation on Middle Eastern studies. Her work examines the intersection of liberalism, racial politics, and colonialism through ethnographic and archival research.

• Affiliations: Former fellowships at UNSW Faculty of Law, Australian Human Rights Centre, and Palestinian American Research Center.
• Current Project: Book manuscript Ambivalent Resistance: Palestinians in Israel and the Liberal Politics of Settler Colonialism and Human Rights, analyzing resistance strategies among ’48 Palestinians, Naqab Bedouin indigeneity claims, and Queer Palestinian movements.

Her research critiques how liberal frameworks like citizenship and human rights can both empower and entrench colonial domination, emphasizing their entanglement with racial logics in settler states.