Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic

Amir, Merav; Kotef, Hagar

doi:10.1111/anti.12130

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“…My aim is not to discuss the features of this movement in detail; such discussions can be found elsewhere (Todorova, 2019; Pallister-Wilkins, 2009; Gordon, 2010; Amir and Kotef, 2015). What I aim to explore is whether this movement activates the Wall’s lines of flight, and offers the possibility of a new life in Israel–Palestine and new imaginations in our conceptualization of contemporary borders.…”

Section: Lines Of the Separation Wallmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking border walls as fluid meshworks

Ozguc

2020

Security Dialogue

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We tend to see border walls as stable concrete fortifications. This article seeks to offer an alternative understanding of walls by suggesting a shift in border studies from network thinking to meshwork thinking. Despite references to multiplicity, concepts of networks and assemblages in border studies continue to provide neat narratives of walls. This article reimagines the border beyond sovereign–disciplinary–biopolitical networks and assemblages. It argues that border walls are constituted by and constitutive of the ever-shifting transformative movements of lines: colonizing lines, crack lines and lines of flight. By tracing the lines of the Separation Wall in the West Bank, this article reveals that, on the border, all these lines coexist, entangle with one another, and in their entanglements, they alter each other to form a fluid meshwork. Meshwork thinking shows the constant mobility of the border and shifts our attention to the power of molecular movements beneath the state in creating, sustaining and disrupting power politics. By presenting a less state-centric, more complex picture of the Separation Wall, this article aims to highlight the movement of the lines that transform the border into a meshwork.

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Section: Lines Of the Separation Wallmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking border walls as fluid meshworks

Ozguc

2020

Security Dialogue

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“…And yet, the focus on domination and control, and the colonial spaces they induce (Gordon ; Weizman ), can never capture the everyday spaces of Palestinian life, always irreducible to the aims and functions of the (settler) colonial state (e.g. Amir and Kotef ; Griffiths ; Harker ; Joronen ).…”

Section: Studying Colonial Violence In Spaces Of Everydaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Colonial Violence: Spaces of Precarisation in Palestine

Joronen

2019

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This paper examines the ways in which colonial violence is transformed and spatialised into negotiated precarities at the occupied Palestine. The notion of “negotiated precarity” is developed herein, to refer to two aspects in particular. First, to spatial compartmentalisation, which shows how the settler colonial power operates by creating precarious administrative zones, where the life of the colonised becomes prone to several flexible, negotiated uses of power. Second, negotiated precarity is used to refer to the conduct of the colonised that counters, transforms, redirects, cancels or hampers the colonial spatialisations of power. By focusing on the “negotiated precarities” in a singular West Bank village, I exemplify how the colonial governing is entwined with spatial compartments that enable several informal, indirect and ad hoc techniques of colonial violence, but also how the colonial governing is constantly mobilised, negotiated, countered and redirected in/through the everyday Palestinian spaces.

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“…Such situations, however, are not without friction or unintended consequences, reminding us of what Amir and Kotef (2015) have described as those 'perils of activism' that remain caught in dominant structures of power and thought. It was now time for a speech from our host, a thin man with a rugged face.…”

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“…However, critical scholarship of politically motivated intentional agency is rare. Barring a few exceptions (Stamatopoulou‐Robbins, ; Amir and Kotef, ; Koensler ), such activism tends to be idealized or romanticized from an engaged activist perspective. Emblematic of a growing body of literature, Carey and Shainin () represent the voices of internal dissent (i.e.…”

Section: Beyond the Separatist Imagination: Israeli–palestinian Urbanmentioning

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Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli–Palestinian Frontiers

Koensler

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In academic and public discourse on the Zionist–Palestinian conflict, there still prevails a ‘methodological nationalism’ based on a separatist imagination overshadowing the existence and role of Israeli–Palestinian forms of communality and solidarity. This article analyses micro‐political practices that cross existing frontiers, both within Israel and between the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. Through recent conceptualizations of ‘acts’, I read these ethnographic episodes in their intentional and performative dimension. What is the role of these ‘acts’? What are their effects, both on participants and the wider public? Through two interconnected cases, different functions of acts are explored. The first case relates to encounters between Israelis and Palestinians in the embattled city of Hebron in the occupied Palestinian territories; the second investigates moments during a Gandhi‐inspired peace march at the ‘internal’ frontier of the Israeli Negev desert. The ethnographic perspective reveals what lies behind and beneath the acts, going beyond the conflict's obvious structures of power. Acts function primarily as a valve of catharsis for the participants themselves, both overcoming and reproducing hegemonic discursive elements of the conflict. Paradoxically, acts of solidarity are often crucial in shaping public knowledge about the conflict in more sectarian terms.

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Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Rethinking border walls as fluid meshworks

Rethinking border walls as fluid meshworks

Negotiating Colonial Violence: Spaces of Precarisation in Palestine

Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli–Palestinian Frontiers

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