Encountering Palestine

Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence

Mark Griffiths, Mikko Joronen

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781496232588
• eBook ISBN:
  9781496238023
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: Social Sciences

Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, edited by Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, sits at the intersection of cultural and political geographies and offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel. Organized around the theme of encountering and focusing on the ways violence and struggle are un/made in the encounter between the colonizer and colonized, the essays focus on power relations as they manifest in cultural practices and everyday lives in anti/colonial Palestine.

Covering numerous sites in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel, Encountering Palestine addresses a range of empirical topics—from marriage and queer aesthetics to policing, demolition, armament failure, and violence. The contributors utilize diverse theoretical frameworks, such as hyperreality, settler capitalism, intimate biopolitics, and politics of vulnerability, to help us better understand the cultural making and unmaking of colonial and anti-colonial space in Palestine. Encountering Palestine asks us to rethink how colonialism and power operate in Palestine, the ways Palestinians struggle, and the lifeways that constantly encounter, un/make, and counter the spaces of colonial violence.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Encountering Palestine, Un/doing Power
• 1. An Intimate Occupation: Governing Love in Occupied Palestine
• 2. Settler Capitalism and Its Witches: Palestinian Bedouin Women Struggling for Space and the Commons in the Naqab
• 3. Encountering the Israeli War Machine: Imminent (In)security, Vortical Violence, Rhizomatic Sumud
• 4. The Regavim Show: Settler Colonialism, Simulacra, and Mirroring
• 5. Staying with the Failures: Iron Dome and Zionist Security “Innovation”
• 6. Neo-Apartheid Jerusalem: Palestine/Israel and the Question of Urban Apartheid
• 7. Expectations to Fulfill: Anticipating the Familial Future in Palestinian Refugee Camps
• 8. Surreal Resistance in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention
• 9. Queering Esthesis: Unsettling the Zionist Sensual Regime
• 10. Life of the Wounded: Rethinking Settler Colonial Power in Palestine
• Elegy for Return
• Contributors
• Index
• About the Author