New Materialism and the Study of Political Violence

Golańska, Dorota

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“…While Waste Siege focuses on the (lack of) Palestinian infrastructure, my own analysis of the politics of ‘slow urbicide’ (Golańska, 2022, 2023) pays attention to the vicious agencies of Israeli material developments in the West Bank. Embracing the rhetoric of progress (as opposed to Palestinians' ‘backwardness’), Israel methodically invests in the erection of Jewish settlements, pavement of Israeli‐only roads, and establishment of nature reserves and special security zones in the West Bank.…”

Section: Slow Violence As Warfare In the West Bankmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This process gradually strips the West Bank landscape of its indigenous characteristics, turning the familiar spaces into ‘political agents inflicting harm’, thus placing Palestinians under pressure from within, ‘a result of materially rich encounters with the harmful agencies of the immediate surroundings weaponized by Israel in the colonial effort’ (Golańska, 2022, p. 132). Given the crucial role of urban areas for the development of processes of self‐governance (Golańska, 2022, p. 126; see also Lefebvre, 1968, 1996), I argue, slow urbicide is aimed at destroying Palestinians' ‘capacities for space‐based organized resistance’ (2023, p. 73).…”

Section: Slow Violence As Warfare In the West Bankmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This article engages with geography‐related applications of Rob Nixon's concept of ‘slow violence’ (2009, 2011), focusing specifically on recent contributions that are linked to the ongoing political developments in the West Bank 1 (Amira, 2021; Golańska, 2022, 2023; Joronen, 2021; Stamatopoulou‐Robbins, 2018, 2019, 2021). Drawing on this scholarship, the article contends that slow violence and warfare should be seen, at least in certain contexts, as part of what feminist geopoliticians call a ‘single complex of violence’ (Pain, 2015; see also Christian et al., 2016; Christian & Dowler, 2019).…”

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Slowness as warfare: Towards a relational approach to political violence in the West Bank

Golańska

2023

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Engaging with recent applications of the concept of slow violence to the ongoing political developments in the West Bank, this review article argues that the relational approach offered by feminist geopolitics facilitates the conception of slow violence and warfare as part of a single complex of violence. The article traces feminist geopolitics' contribution to research on geographies of slow violence on the one hand, and to the analyses produced within the fields of critical geopolitics and critical war studies on the other, exposing that scholarly work exploiting the relational approach generated within and across these areas of research enables a broader understanding of political violence's tangled operations. Based on the analysis of the recent scholarly engagement with slow violence in the West Bank, the article proposes that thinking of slowness as a form of warfare captures the complex entanglement of different modalities of violence as they materialize in specific spatio‐temporal circumstances. Moreover, such an approach contributes to the further reinvigoration of feminist geopolitics with insights generated within (settler) colonial studies.

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Section: Slow Violence As Warfare In the West Bankmentioning

confidence: 99%