Maps as Politics: Mapping the West Bank Barrier

Present checkpoint futures: the relaunch of checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem in the occupied Palestinian territories

“…The intricate ways in which the Israeli military regime in the Palestinian Territories is normalized has been analysed thoroughly in academia. Examples are the in-depth analyses of the use of language and maps (Bier 2017;Bowman 2007;Jones, Leuenberger, and Wills 2016;Leuenberger 2016), pink washing (Hartal 2020;Puar 2007Puar , 2013Ritchie 2015), wine washing (Handel, Rand, and Allegra 2015;Monterescu and Handel 2019), the administrative and political performances that strengthen and legitimize the Israeli military rule (Joronen 2017;Yiftachel 1998), the role played by infrastructure and the selective increase of mobility (Baumann 2019;Pullan et al 2007;Salamanca 2015), the role played by thanatopower in the Israeli colonial occupation (Ghanim 2008), the material-architectural history of Palestinian refugee camps (Abourahme 2011(Abourahme , 2015Hanafi and Long 2010), the functioning and impact of checkpoints (Bishara 2015;Braverman 2011Braverman , 2012Grassiani 2015;Griffiths and Repo 2018;Hammami 2004Hammami , 2010Hammami , 2015Hammami , 2019Kaufman 2008;Keshet 2006;Kotef 2011;Kotef and Amir 2007;Mansbach 2009Mansbach , 2012Mansbach , 2016Parizot 2009;Peteet 2017;…”

Advancing the historical geography of late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine using GIScience: A review

“…As the periods preceding the independent State of Israel, they are associated with long‐lasting conflicts and disputes such as the Israeli‐Arab conflict (Gelvin, 2014). This ongoing struggle between the two rivals does not spare the cartographic material, and consequently it is sometimes maliciously interpreted to support one opponent's narrative rather than independent analysis (Leuenberger, 2018; Quiquivix, 2014; Sánchez, 2018). Thus, to avoid geo‐political biases, careful interrogation of the sources themselves is vital, especially when one is facing contradictory interpretations.…”

Die Konstruktion von Grenzen: Der Wandel einer Ausgrenzungspolitik zu einer Integrationspolitik

“…Doch wie Wissenschaftler*innen aus den Science and Technology Studies herausgearbeitet haben, muss die Materialität von Grenzlinien, durch eine Reihe von physischen Objekten, Papieren, Karten als auch durch konzeptuelle Daten konstituiert, verstanden werden (vgl. Lynch 1994;Turnbull 1994;Leuenberger/Schnell 2010;Leuenberger 2016a;2016b). Dieses Verbinden des Abstrakten und Greifbaren macht das aus, was Bruno Latour (1986) "unveränderliches mobiles Element" (immutable mobile) nennt, das raumüberschreitend ist und dazu dienen kann (je nach Interaktions-und Verhandlungskontingenzen), andere, welche die Grenze nicht erfahren haben, von dessen Lage und Realität zu überzeugen.…”