Slow urbicide: Accounting for the shifting temporalities of political violence in the West Bank

Golańska, Dorota

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.04.012

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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(Golańska, , 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.…”

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“…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. This process, indirectly, produces ‘the systematic degeneration of Palestinian urban areas’, shaping ‘the everyday experience of inhabitants of many towns, villages, and neighbourhoods, seriously reconfiguring their life routines, negatively affecting the community's fabric, impairing urban development, and generating a damaging impact on the natural environment and people's well‐being’ (Golańska, 2022, p. 125). Drawing on feminist new materialism, my work exposes both the shifting temporalities of political violence in the region and its reliance on more‐than‐human agencies.…”

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“…Suffering from poor waste disposal infrastructure (aggravated by the sewage being pulled down from the Jewish settlements sitting on the nearby hilltops), lateral blockage by Jewish‐only infrastructure (settlements, roads, reserves, etc. ), and human congestion (due to the continual shrinking of the area suitable for additional construction), Palestinian urban spaces get slowly obliterated, ‘dissipating Palestinians’ “sense of place”’ (Golańska, 2022, p. 132; see also McKittrick, 2011). 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).…”

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“…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

Geography Compass

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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

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2023

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“…War, occupation regime, and political violence significantly affect all spheres of human life (Makeiev et al, 2017;Golańska, 2022). In a socio-cultural dimension, institutions become the objects of primary occupation due to their ability to become the centers of educational activity that form a national identity and patriotic education.…”

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Academic solidarity and digitization: Management of a displaced university

Spivakovsky

Omelchuk

Malchykova

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Problems and Perspectives in Management

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This study aims to generalize and systematize the experience of Kherson State University (Ukraine) in times of war under temporary russian occupation of Kherson city and the university displacement. All these factors have designed new practices of management and strategic development. The key issues of stability and resistance to the challenges of war of the university’s community are rethinking the university strategy and the solidarity of national and international academic institutions, local city and state government, civil society, and businesses. The study shows that the primary mechanism of university functioning in occupation and displacement is total digitization of all processes and enhanced social communication of the university community (e.g., transition from partial to total digital document turnover and active use of social media and internet communications in the strategy of crisis communication and university’s community support). Speed-up of digital transformations and distance educational technologies of teaching in synchronous and asynchronous formats (in conditions of unstable internet connection and energy supply) ensured the high quality of the educational process.The personal values of university students and staff (resistance to the invaders (occupants), rejection of collaboration, and volunteer activities) and results of the enrolment campaign in 2022 (1037 entrants) demonstrate the benefits of perennial university activities in the context of national identity development. These also highlight perspectives of the university to form the human capital of Kherson region in general and intellectual elite in particular. AcknowledgmentWe wish to express our gratitude to the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, and the University of Kent for the opportunity to successfully implement the strategy of the university.

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