Palestine and the Aesthetics of the Future Impossible

Carceral domesticities: An introduction

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We write this introduction at a grave moment in 2023, in which Israel is engaging in what has been widely described as genocide in Gaza (OHCHR, 2023), justified in geopolitical discourse as retribution for a Hamas attack that took many civilian Israeli lives. Palestinians' relationship with futurity is -as a rich scholarship has argued -one of rupture, and of temporal curtailment: the Nakba is, in this experience, continuous and ongoing (Abu Hatoum, 2021;El Shakry, 2021). For everyday life in Palestine, this means that the domestic is a site of perpetual anticipation -waiting for the next round of settler violence, which renders the home in the present unhomely (Griffiths and Joronen, 2021).

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