The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in Palestine: Prosthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations

Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia

doi:10.1353/ncr.0.0029

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“…What needs to be noted here is that the lines of division can be located between two diametrically opposite understandings of Jewish‐Israeli identity, and not along the classical Israeli–Palestinian national divide. This reconfiguration creates bridges of communality between secular Israeli and Palestinian citizens, while at the same time reinforcing the secular/religious rift in Jewish society; this is common also to other forms of Jewish–Palestinian solidarity (Stamatopoulou‐Robbins, ). It remains arguable whether the Fatah/Hamas divide on the other side facilitates the capacity of moderate Palestinians to reach out, or if it weakens the Palestinian position overall.…”

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Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli–Palestinian Frontiers

Koensler

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In academic and public discourse on the Zionist–Palestinian conflict, there still prevails a ‘methodological nationalism’ based on a separatist imagination overshadowing the existence and role of Israeli–Palestinian forms of communality and solidarity. This article analyses micro‐political practices that cross existing frontiers, both within Israel and between the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. Through recent conceptualizations of ‘acts’, I read these ethnographic episodes in their intentional and performative dimension. What is the role of these ‘acts’? What are their effects, both on participants and the wider public? Through two interconnected cases, different functions of acts are explored. The first case relates to encounters between Israelis and Palestinians in the embattled city of Hebron in the occupied Palestinian territories; the second investigates moments during a Gandhi‐inspired peace march at the ‘internal’ frontier of the Israeli Negev desert. The ethnographic perspective reveals what lies behind and beneath the acts, going beyond the conflict's obvious structures of power. Acts function primarily as a valve of catharsis for the participants themselves, both overcoming and reproducing hegemonic discursive elements of the conflict. Paradoxically, acts of solidarity are often crucial in shaping public knowledge about the conflict in more sectarian terms.

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Section: Acts As Catharsismentioning

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Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli–Palestinian Frontiers

Koensler

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…The ongoing legalisation of land appropriations (Joronen ), the use of permit regimes (Berda ), and the demolition of homes often related to colonial planning and rezoning (Chiodelli , ) are all, as I will show below in detail, clearly indicative of how Israel uses administrative processes for spatialising settler colonial violence, particularly in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. While there is a broader agreement within the existing literature on the prevalence of Israel's use of settler colonial means of governing (Pullan and Yacobi ; Shalhoub‐Kevorkian , ; Veracini , ; Zureik ), critics have claimed all too often Palestinian spaces have been framed through, and so sidelined with those of the Israeli occupation (Allen ; Harker ; Joronen ; Kotef and Amir ; Stamatopoulou‐Robbins ). As it has also been argued within the literature critical of governing‐ and governmentality‐centred approaches (Death ; MacKinnon ), focus on the control, government, and conducting of others tends to ignore the “real‐world messiness”, therefore setting aside “the practice, implementation, agency, experience and resistance” of the ones governed (Rosol :75).…”

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“…prevalence of Israel's use of settler colonial means of governing (Pullan and Yacobi 2017;Shalhoub-Kevorkian 2014Veracini 2006Veracini , 2010Zureik 2016), critics have claimed all too often Palestinian spaces have been framed through, and so sidelined with those of the Israeli occupation (Allen 2008;Harker 2009;Joronen 2017a;Kotef and Amir 2011;Stamatopoulou-Robbins 2008). As it has also been argued within the literature critical of governing-and governmentality-centred approaches (Death 2010;MacKinnon 2000), focus on the control, government, and conducting of others tends to ignore the "real-world messiness", therefore setting aside "the practice, implementation, agency, experience and resistance" of the ones governed (Rosol 2014:75).…”

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Negotiating Colonial Violence: Spaces of Precarisation in Palestine

Joronen

2019

Antipode

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This paper examines the ways in which colonial violence is transformed and spatialised into negotiated precarities at the occupied Palestine. The notion of “negotiated precarity” is developed herein, to refer to two aspects in particular. First, to spatial compartmentalisation, which shows how the settler colonial power operates by creating precarious administrative zones, where the life of the colonised becomes prone to several flexible, negotiated uses of power. Second, negotiated precarity is used to refer to the conduct of the colonised that counters, transforms, redirects, cancels or hampers the colonial spatialisations of power. By focusing on the “negotiated precarities” in a singular West Bank village, I exemplify how the colonial governing is entwined with spatial compartments that enable several informal, indirect and ad hoc techniques of colonial violence, but also how the colonial governing is constantly mobilised, negotiated, countered and redirected in/through the everyday Palestinian spaces.

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“…2. Pro-Palestinian political tourism as a distinct feature of the Israeli-Palestinian space has been looked at ethnographically by Clarke (2000;, Jean-Klein (2002), Koensler (2008) and Stamatopoulou-Robbins (2008), and the history of such movements has also been widely documented (Hermann 2008;Seitz 2003). However, there are other forms of political tourism in the region as well, for example right-wing movements, such as Gush Etzion, that promote West Bank settlements.…”

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Political tourism in the Israeli‐Palestinian space (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

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Papa²

2011

Anthropology Today

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With the violent clashes that took place in May 2010 during the attempt by the Free Gaza movement flotilla to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the remarkable strength of pro‐Palestinian networks became globally apparent. Drawing on an ethnography of political activism in the Israeli‐Palestinian space, we suggest that the striking visibility of these networks does not exclusively derive from the prominence of the Israeli‐Palestinian conflicts, but is also a consequence of the activists’ ability to produce innovative forms of sociality. However, some of the approaches taken can exist in problematic relation to the experiences of people who live with the conflict. In this context, the issue is not so much the precise relationships between indigenous ‘truths’ in Palestine and their foreign representations, but the way in which encounters redefine the conflicts that activist networks seek to represent.

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The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in Palestine: Prosthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli–Palestinian Frontiers

Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli–Palestinian Frontiers

Negotiating Colonial Violence: Spaces of Precarisation in Palestine

Political tourism in the Israeli‐Palestinian space (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

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