Decolonizing [in the] future: scenes of Palestinian temporality

Hatoum, Nayrouz Abu

doi:10.1080/04353684.2021.1963806

Cited by 15 publications

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“…On the one hand, the Nakba is ongoing and has never stopped, with new spatial arrangements constantly forming and re-forming, which brings forth the need for ongoing critical inquiry. On the other hand, decolonial praxis is readily evident in the decoloniality of living that takes shape in the quotidian, often mundane Palestinian spaces and forms of life that persist in and beyond colonised space (Abu Hatoum, 2021;Harker, 2009Harker, , 2011Joronen & Griffiths, 2019;Nabulsi, 2023b). Taking the detailed knowledge of colonialism alongside an ethic of decolonial geography leads us to key questions of academic praxis, to the issue many of us have been grappling with since the latest genocidal escalation of colonial violence: what can we, as geographers, do to support Palestinian calls for liberation?…”

Section: Geographical Perspectives On Palestinementioning

confidence: 99%

Gaza: A decolonial geography

Agha,

Esson,

Griffiths

et al. 2024

Trans Inst British Geog

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This commentary addresses three objectives: (1) to situate and contextualise the ongoing military assault on Gaza within longer colonial histories in Palestine; (2) to collate resources that can equip geographers—specialist and non‐specialist, academic and non‐academic—with resources to build decolonial politics on Palestine–Israel; and (3) to contribute to discussions on what we, as geographers, can do to support Palestinian calls for liberation. These objectives are informed by a strong conviction that now is not a time for equivocation or silence. Palestinians, both in Palestine and in exile, need robust support and solidarity. This commentary offers one example of the form this support and solidarity can take in the context of academia. It does so by calling forth our discipline's plural and deep commitment to justice and thoroughgoing critique of the deleterious power structures and colonial legacies that have brought us to this current moment of crisis in Palestine.

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Section: Geographical Perspectives On Palestinementioning

confidence: 99%

Gaza: A decolonial geography

Agha,

Esson,

Griffiths

et al. 2024

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…The walking tours examined below will be shown to revive the past as it correlates with the present—testifying to a traumatic history and to its current implications to reclaim Palestinian Yaffa and promote a more just future (Abu Hatoum 2021). Indeed, whereas most settler colonies urbanise space as a tool of colonisation, “the existence of modern Palestinian cities pre‐colonization yielded a different kind of settler‐colonial urbanism in Israel” (Blatman and Sabbagh‐Khoury 2023:127).…”

Section: Between Neo‐settler‐colonial Violence Urban Displacement And...mentioning

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Paths of Erasure and Trails of Resistance in aNeo‐Settler‐ColonialCity

Huss

2023

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Urban displacement is receiving growing visibility within urban studies. However, most literature centres on the logic of late capitalism and tends to neglect colonial history and local resistance to displacement. This paper takes an alternative path: it relates (a) the history of colonialism and ethnic cleansing of the city of Jaffa with (b) the present‐day gentrification and displacement caused by neoliberal urbanism. To unpack this entanglement, the article focuses on political city walking tours led by Internally Displaced Palestinians in Jaffa, alongside a broader repertoire of urban subaltern tactics to reclaim it—ranging from community meetings to more overtly politicised acts of protest and initiatives to disrupt gentrification. The article therefore advances debates on urban displacement and urban citizenship mobilisation through the lens of post‐colonial theories, and by adopting a participatory interdisciplinary approach—from a novel perspective that centres local knowledge, lived experiences, and grassroots activism.

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“…This is achieved, for example, by Israeli soldiers arbitrarily detaining Palestinians, by erecting “flying checkpoints” at a moment's notice, or by closing checkpoints with no warning or reason (Parizot 2018:28). As Nayrouz Abu Hatoum (2021:398) explains, the “Israeli spatial and bureaucratic control of Palestinian everyday lives and realities shatters Palestinian temporality into fragments” (see also Griffiths and Joronen 2021). The effects of this shattering of Palestinian time extend well beyond the site of the checkpoint.…”

Section: The Fractality Of Fragmentationmentioning

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“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation

Nabulsi

2023

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Fragmentation is a key colonial strategy to which Palestinians enact resistance, evident most prominently in the 2021 Unity Intifada. In this article, I take inspiration from such Palestinian resistance to theorise fragmentation as a central logic of Zionist/Israeli settler colonialism. I make three related points. First, I employ the metaphor of the earthquake to consider the fractality of settler colonial fragmentation across the dimensions of land, time, and bodies. Second, understanding the settler colonial logic of elimination as ultimately attempting to extinguish a Palestinian Indigenous sovereignty, I argue that the logic of fragmentation drives towards elimination. Finally, I demonstrate that, in fragmenting Palestine, Zionism seeks to render Israel a coherent entity. Ultimately then, the Zionist project works to fragment Palestine to eliminate Palestinian bodies from land and time, to render Israel a seamless nation across these dimensions. However, Palestinian Indigenous sovereignty is not something that can be broken or extinguished.

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Decolonizing [in the] future: scenes of Palestinian temporality

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Gaza: A decolonial geography

Gaza: A decolonial geography

Paths of Erasure and Trails of Resistance in aNeo‐Settler‐ColonialCity

“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation

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