Assembling the Fabric of Life: When Settler Colonialism Becomes Development

Salamanca, Omar Jabary

doi:10.1525/jps.2016.45.4.64

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“…Embedded in physical infrastructure, racialized biopolitics, and bureaucratic institutionalization, settler colonialism is part and parcel of the physical and imagined environments of this region (Abu Hatoum, 2021, this issue; Bishara et al., 2021, this issue; Braverman, 2021, this issue; see also Alatout, 2006; Salamanca, 2016; Stamatopoulou-Robbins, 2019; Weizman, 2007; Zureik, 2015). The Separation Wall, one of the more visible materialities in this place, both creates violence and also serves to obscure it (Bishara, 2020).…”

Section: The Interface Of Environmental Justice and Settler Colonialimentioning

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Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction

Braverman

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Our special issue provides a first-of-its kind attempt to examine environmental injustices in the occupied West Bank through interdisciplinary perspectives, pointing to the broader settler colonial and neoliberal contexts within which they occur and to their more-than-human implications. Specifically, we seek to understand what environmental justice—a movement originating from, and rooted in, the United States—means in the context of Palestine/Israel. Moving beyond the settler-native dialectic, we draw attention to the more-than-human flows that occur in the region—which include water, air, waste, cement, trees, donkeys, watermelons, and insects—to consider the dynamic, and often gradational, meanings of frontier, enclosure, and Indigeneity in the West Bank, challenging the all-too-binary assumptions at the core of settler colonialism. Against the backdrop of the settler colonial project of territorial dispossession and elimination, we illuminate the infrastructural connections and disruptions among lives and matter in the West Bank, interpreting these through the lens of environmental justice. We finally ask what forms of ecological decolonization might emerge from this landscape of accumulating waste, concrete, and ruin. Such alternative visions that move beyond the single axis of settler-native enable the emergence of more nuanced, and even hopeful, ecological imaginaries that focus on sumud, dignity, and recognition.

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Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction

Braverman

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Building on geographers' longstanding interrogation of planning in territorial dispossession and geopolitics, recent infrastructure and planning literature has considerably radicalized this focus through engagement with settler colonial studies (Braier & Yacobi, ; Cowen, ; Curley, , ; Salamanca, , ; Porter & Yiftachel, , p. 177; Yacobi & Tzfadia, ). Rutland (, p. 1) situates urban planning as a “world‐altering instrument of power and race,” showing how settlement and planning practices are predicated on large‐scale violence against and displacement of indigenous peoples and other racialized populations and how their presence is erased from the historical record.…”

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Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Velednitsky

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Machold³

2020

Geography Compass

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Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of political analysis that geographers can offer. It also limits the nature, depth, and scope of radical critique of violent domination by skirting certain questions about the core drivers of dispossession and responsibility for them. This article examines political geographical engagement (or lack thereof) across each of four themes: population management/governance, territory/sovereignty, consciousness, and narrative, paying particular attention to works which challenge the present absence of settler colonial theory in political geography. We argue that analyzing settler colonial formations as such is essential to conceptualizing their workings and linkages or disjunctures with other forms of empire. Yet this focus also has broader political stakes related to geography's complicity with racialized state power, violence, and empire, as well as and efforts to decolonize the discipline.

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“…14 We are instead left to encounter the Wall’s imposing structure as a sightseeing highlight, and tour participants photograph themselves against the backdrop of its extensive graffiti and get the opportunity to add their own scrawls. This performative engagement turns it into an exotic icon of “conflict” in an abstract sense rather than conveying any understanding about how it functions as a mechanism of settler colonial control (see Alatout, 2009; Salamanca, 2016; Weizman, 2007). 15 Without this context, the spectacle of the Wall’s material existence distances it from the regime of Israeli control operating throughout the West Bank and not merely at the boundary between Israel and Palestinian territory that the Wall is presumed to constitute.…”

Section: The West Bankmentioning

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Staging Israel/Palestine: The geopolitical imaginaries of international tourism

Yang

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article argues that the curation of particular geopolitical imaginaries of Israel/Palestine for international tourists can legitimize and naturalize the violence of the Israeli state project. Juxtaposing the cases of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and the West Bank, I analyze the discourses and embodied practices that produce imaginative geographies through processes of spatial distancing and temporal fixing. The dominant imaginary in Tel Aviv-Jaffa incorporates Israel into a westernized geography of Europe, while the dominant imaginary of the West Bank emphasizes its location in an Orientalized Middle East. The cultivation of these tourist landscapes as entirely disparate places works to obscure how both are constitutive of a single Israeli regime, contributing to the public secret that separates the occupation of the West Bank from Israel as a democratic state. By examining how seemingly apolitical tourist practices are entangled with geopolitical violence, this article reveals the complicity of international tourism in sustaining Israeli settler colonial dispossession and military occupation.

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Assembling the Fabric of Life: When Settler Colonialism Becomes Development

Cited by 54 publications

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Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction

Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Staging Israel/Palestine: The geopolitical imaginaries of international tourism

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