The Occupation of the Senses: The Prosthetic and Aesthetic of State Terror

Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, Nadera

doi:10.1093/bjc/azw066

Cited by 31 publications

(31 citation statements)

References 42 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Zionist colonialism also provides a space to consider the racist elements of necropower as a persistent activity of the settler colonial state. 3 While recent research has explored the relationship between the systematic expulsion of Palestinians and the negligent treatment of the dead (Daher-Nashif, 2017, 2018; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2016), a framework of Zionist colonialism that centers on race allows for nuanced ways to consider the racialized relationship between territoriality and necropolitics.…”

Section: The Racist Necropolitics Of Zionist Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The politics of karameh: Palestinian burial rites under the gun

Wahbe

2020

Critique of Anthropology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

For decades, Israel has held the remains of hundreds of Palestinian martyrs in secret burial sites in closed military zones called the cemeteries of numbers. Simultaneously, the Israeli police have desecrated several ancient burial sites in Jerusalem and built above them parks and other public spaces. This article examines these under-explored phenomena within the lens of Zionist colonialism to consider the ways cemeteries and spaces of death are used by the Israeli state as a mechanism of necroviolence. Through ethnographic interviews with martyrs’ families and a review of key legal documents regarding the burial of Palestinians, this article makes the case that the control and intentional negligence of dead bodies – fueled by racist ideology – are key facets of Israeli territorial acquisition.

show abstract

Section: The Racist Necropolitics Of Zionist Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The politics of karameh: Palestinian burial rites under the gun

Wahbe

2020

Critique of Anthropology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…25–28). To Shalhoub-Kevorkian (2016), this process takes place through technologies that manage sight, sound, time and space, a multisensory oppression she terms the ‘occupation of the senses’ which draws our attention to a kind of ‘aesthetic violence’ assaulting the most fundamental aspects of the daily lives of Palestinians today.…”

Section: Landscape Performances In a Settler Colonial Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Privatizing the production of settler colonial landscapes: ‘Authenticity’ and imaginative geography in Wadi Al-Salib, Haifa

Sa’di-Ibraheem

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article explores how urban settler-colonial landscapes are produced in the neoliberal era. Adopting an anti-colonial approach, the article addresses practices of landscape production through the history of Wadi Al-Salib in Haifa after the driving out of its inhabitants in 1948. A micro geographical study of three Palestinian refugees’ houses, sold by the state to private real estate companies during the last two decades, constitutes the empirical mainstay of the article. Located in Wadi Al-Salib where rapid neoliberal urban renewal schemes hope to raise property values and enact demographic change, these houses are often marketed to upper-class Israeli Jews as “authentic”. Such branding indicates that the privatization of the Palestinian refugees' houses may also signify privatization of the colonial imagination, and a broader shift of the landscape into a collage of marketable images, echoing an ‘aesthetic violence’ that evokes past colonial landscapes. Such references create several hyper-realities in the same place, thus canonizing colonial landscapes’ imaginaries.

show abstract

“…Of course, this is not a politically neutral exercise. If we are to avoid reproducing ‘auditory violence’ (Hemsworth et al., 2017: 150), listening to accounts of confinement demands reflection on the ways in which settler colonial forces produce dominant ‘hierarchies of attention’ (De Souza, 2018) and shape, surveil, and control our soundworlds (Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2016; Stoever, 2016). An explicitly political approach to listening is particularly important in a social context in which detained voices are routinely censored, discredited, silenced, or tuned out.…”

Section: Sound and Carceral Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indefinite stuckness: Listening in a time of hyper-incarceration and border entrapment

Russell

Rae

2019

Punishment & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

New technologies for recording, reproducing, and disseminating sound are increasingly accessible and provide important opportunities for listening to accounts of confinement. Through a politics and practice of ‘earwitnessing detention’, this article explores experiential patterns and distinctions between immigration detention and imprisonment. By ‘tuning in’ to radio and podcasting emerging from and through carceral spaces, we argue that both detained asylum seekers and Aboriginal prisoners in Australia narrate an experience of ‘indefinite stuckness’. Indefinite stuckness is an existential condition within a carceral continuum that is both spatial and temporal, and characterised by massive racial inequalities. For detained asylum seekers, indefinite stuckness manifests in the absence of a set release date, whereas for Aboriginal prisoners, it is a cycle of criminalisation and re-incarceration in the colony. This important distinction shapes how detention is represented: as torturous and abusive, or as an opportunity for respite from the ‘chaos’ outside. Linking these sometimes-divergent accounts of confinement are themes of friendship and community as forms of survival and resistance to the abjection that frequently accompanies indefinite stuckness.

show abstract

The Occupation of the Senses: The Prosthetic and Aesthetic of State Terror

Cited by 31 publications

References 42 publications

The politics of karameh: Palestinian burial rites under the gun

The politics of karameh: Palestinian burial rites under the gun

Privatizing the production of settler colonial landscapes: ‘Authenticity’ and imaginative geography in Wadi Al-Salib, Haifa

Indefinite stuckness: Listening in a time of hyper-incarceration and border entrapment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About