Israel’s Approach Towards Space Security and Sustainability

Paikowsky, Deganit; Azoulay, Tal; Israel, Isaac Ben

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22786-9_17-2

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“…The Israeli‐Palestinian conflict is wedged in outer space, almost as if science fiction and colonialism have eloped. Israel orchestrates reconnaissance satellites with Palestinians in mind (Paikowsky et al., 2020), and Palestinians intimately know how such technologies can affect and change landscapes and lives, plans and possibilities, smells and sensations. The molecularity of empire stretches along latitudes, but only certain figures and states are endowed with the global authority to discuss what the molecule means for life outside our planet.…”

Section: Coda: Narrating the Unknownmentioning

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2023

American Ethnologist

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What does outer space smell like? On the one hand, space scientists have used scent as a hint to discover the molecular histories of the cosmos. On the other, Palestinian astronomers, who regularly encounter Israel's vertical military arsenal, joke that it smells like Israel. Based on three years of fieldwork in the occupied West Bank, this article follows these astronomers and reveals how colonial experience can emerge in faraway realms, even past our planet. I position the space sciences alongside these Palestinian perspectives, arguing that such encounters with a superterranean state reveal the increasingly extraplanetary contours of colonial struggle. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in other words, orbits earth. Scale thus emerges not as something that divides the (space) sciences, colonialism, and everyday sensory encounters into separable domains, but as a relational concept through which we can better grasp the dimensions of colonialism, politics, and power today.

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Section: Coda: Narrating the Unknownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tear gas in orbit

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2023

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Israel’s Approach Towards Space Security and Sustainability

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