Review: <i>Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone</i>, by Gil Z. Hochberg

Grinberg, Omri

doi:10.1525/jps.2017.47.1.114

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“…According to her, the racialized subject's physiological response to colonial trauma-and therefore decoloniality-includes the body's intuitive, "gut" reactions and emotive responses. Applying this framework, Ahmad's portrait exhibits how he, the racialized child, resists through sensorial space, and how he uses his senses, his eyes, and his body to fight back, redirecting the viewer's gaze from top-down (the perspective of the colonizer) to bottom-up (the perspective of the colonized) (Hochberg 2015). Ahmad's competence in enacting liveability can be understood as refusing-while-bleedingand-wounded.…”

Section: First Scene: the Senses-ahmad Manasra Bleeding While Looking...mentioning

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An Abolitionist Liveability Against State Carceral Unchilding Ahmad Manasra’s life-making

Otman,

Shalhoub-Kevorkian

2024

SCJ

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This article will not look at the incarceration of Ahmad Manasra through the prism of state violence against him, but more specifically through his radical call for “life-making”—as an abolitionist liveability against state criminality. We join Ahmad in taking a critical stance towards the politics of life—and what Aysha Odeh and Robin Kelley refer to as “freedom dreams”—refuting the state’s carceral network and the acceptance of the settler colonial necropolitical structure. In doing so, the article conceptualizes Ahmad Manasra’s multiple modes of refusal as acts of defiance against the brutality of state “unchilding,” arguing that his unending search for freedom are radical abolitionist cries that cannot be overlooked.

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Section: First Scene: the Senses-ahmad Manasra Bleeding While Looking...mentioning

confidence: 99%

An Abolitionist Liveability Against State Carceral Unchilding Ahmad Manasra’s life-making

Otman,

Shalhoub-Kevorkian

2024

SCJ

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“…Both seeing and unseeing, literally and figuratively, as well as being seen and not seen, become strategic components of Israel's colonial domination (Hochberg, 2015). The "occupation of the senses" (Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2017) includes not just the colonizer/occupier figuratively unseeing but also the colonized/occupied literally not seeing, disabled by practices such as the shooting of Palestinians in the eyes or visually impairing them with smoke grenades.…”

Section: Invisiblizing Colonialism: Grassroots Perspectivesmentioning

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Unseeing settler–extractive colonialism: The “blindness epidemic” in the (com)promised lands.

Afana¹

2023

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Decolonial praxis requires an awareness of colonial praxis: here, I show that the process of unseeing crime is central to the colonial enterprise in Palestine and significant to understanding the victimizer’s ethos, which in turn may help reframe strategically the victim’s options. First, I introduce the blindness epidemic in José Saramago’s dystopian novel, an epidemic which I later use as an allegory for the structural unseeing which has come to define the Zionist project. This is followed by a brief introduction to how my identity as a (half) Palestinian shapes my relation to the physical, structural, and epistemic violence I have lived or witnessed. I begin my analysis of colonial violence in Israel/Palestine by tracking the shifting interpretations of the impasse, and how these relate to decolonial conceptions of justice, repair, and healing. Next, I illustrate grassroots perspectives on how colonialism is unseen or invisiblized, drawing on my fieldwork data: interviews with leading Palestinian and Israeli activists. Here, the agents and beneficiaries of colonialism become incapable of seeing and “seeing” the criminality before and within them. It is a sinister, omnipresent process. I then discuss some psychosocial aspects of this “blindness epidemic,” showing the complexity here of both seeing and unseeing, which are simultaneously deliberate and automatic processes. After analyzing the structures and processes activating invisibility or unseeing in this colonial site, I show that the few Israeli Jews—some, my interviewees and others, my friends—choosing to exit the “blindness epidemic” become agents of coresistance (as opposed to “coexistence,” misleading mantra of peacebuilding) and of healing. Coresistance here is premised on seeing (and countering) the socially mandated unseeing.

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“…Israel's use of the internet as a technology of power and a tool of occupation is well documented in several studies. For example, Helga Tawil-Souri (2012) uses the term digital occupation to suggest that Israel's control over Gaza, in particular, continues and increasingly includes the high-tech real, while Gil Hochberg (2015) argues that Israeli occupation of Palestine is driven by the unequal access to visual rights, or the right to control what can be seen, how and from which position. Israel maintains this unequal balance by erasing the history and denying the existence of Palestinians, and by carefully concealing its own militarization.…”

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Comparative analysis of Israeli and PLO diplomacy practices during the May 2021 Israeli attacks against Gaza

Maher,

Matar

2023

Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

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Review: Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, by Gil Z. Hochberg

Cited by 3 publications

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An Abolitionist Liveability Against State Carceral Unchilding Ahmad Manasra’s life-making

An Abolitionist Liveability Against State Carceral Unchilding Ahmad Manasra’s life-making

Unseeing settler–extractive colonialism: The “blindness epidemic” in the (com)promised lands.

Comparative analysis of Israeli and PLO diplomacy practices during the May 2021 Israeli attacks against Gaza

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