With a Wink and a Nod: Settlement Growth Through Construction as Commemoration in the Occupied West Bank

Hughes, Sara Salazar

doi:10.1080/14650045.2016.1216981

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“…Proulx and Crane's () work analyzes the seemingly universal ideologies of productivity and development which mask elite interests in indigenous land appropriation and white supremacy. In analyzing the narrative that West Bank settlements are built to commemorate the Israeli dead, Hughes () writes that this discourse represents construction as a form of (justified) mourning that legitimates continued settlement. Several other, related tropes depict Israeli colonization in the West Bank as a progressive project; the idea of settlers as people who are divinely chosen and destined for colonization, the romanticization of a rugged frontier that must be conquered, and a teleological sense of progress and superiority (Hughes, ).…”

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“…Despite this longstanding present absence, which endures in contemporary political geography, recent works by political geographers are engaging with the field of settler colonialism much more directly (Gentry et al, , Hawari, Plonski, & Weizman, , Hughes, , forthcoming; Machold, ; Naylor, Daigle, Zaragocin, Ramírez, & Gilmartin, ; De Leeuw & Hunt, ), focusing particularly on biopolitics, planning, urban geopolitics, and gendered and racialized foundations of settler colonialism (Farrales, ; Naylor et al, ). Indeed, Coleman and Agnew () argue that the settler colonial framework is of rising importance to the field of political geography.…”

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Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Velednitsky

Hughes

Machold³

2020

Geography Compass

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Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of political analysis that geographers can offer. It also limits the nature, depth, and scope of radical critique of violent domination by skirting certain questions about the core drivers of dispossession and responsibility for them. This article examines political geographical engagement (or lack thereof) across each of four themes: population management/governance, territory/sovereignty, consciousness, and narrative, paying particular attention to works which challenge the present absence of settler colonial theory in political geography. We argue that analyzing settler colonial formations as such is essential to conceptualizing their workings and linkages or disjunctures with other forms of empire. Yet this focus also has broader political stakes related to geography's complicity with racialized state power, violence, and empire, as well as and efforts to decolonize the discipline.

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Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Velednitsky

Hughes

Machold³

2020

Geography Compass

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“…The dominant imaginary of Jaffa is premised on its Orientalist domestication as Tel Aviv’s quaint, unthreatening Other, which bolsters the Israeli national narrative through the settler colonial process of the material and discursive production of emptiness (Hughes, 2017). Jaffa had been a socioeconomic and cultural center of Palestine; despite the mythos of Tel Aviv’s establishment on empty sand dunes, it was actually bordered by built-up areas of Jaffa, and much of what became Tel Aviv was built over Palestinian orchards and villages (Levine, 2005).…”

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Staging Israel/Palestine: The geopolitical imaginaries of international tourism

Yang

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article argues that the curation of particular geopolitical imaginaries of Israel/Palestine for international tourists can legitimize and naturalize the violence of the Israeli state project. Juxtaposing the cases of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and the West Bank, I analyze the discourses and embodied practices that produce imaginative geographies through processes of spatial distancing and temporal fixing. The dominant imaginary in Tel Aviv-Jaffa incorporates Israel into a westernized geography of Europe, while the dominant imaginary of the West Bank emphasizes its location in an Orientalized Middle East. The cultivation of these tourist landscapes as entirely disparate places works to obscure how both are constitutive of a single Israeli regime, contributing to the public secret that separates the occupation of the West Bank from Israel as a democratic state. By examining how seemingly apolitical tourist practices are entangled with geopolitical violence, this article reveals the complicity of international tourism in sustaining Israeli settler colonial dispossession and military occupation.

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“…The collective research of geographers on the historical and present experiences of displacement and encampment in the Middle East, especially regarding Palestinian refugees and Israel–Palestine relations, offer conceptual tools to understand the current crisis. Geographers view walls, camps, checkpoints, and settlements as both “object and process” (Abourahme, , p. 203): material assemblage and social relation (Abourahme, , Hughes, , Martin, , Natanel, , Parsons & Salter, , Pallister‐Wilkins, , Ramadan, , Smith, ). They are spaces inhabited by geopolitical agents, people, and objects that forge a “subaltern geopolitics” (Sharp, ) of care and contestation (Amir, , Ramadan, , Smith, ).…”

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“…Spaces of enclosure-the "camp" and border walls-have been fixtures in the Middle East landscape far earlier than the current migrant crisis, illustrated in the approximately 1.5 million Palestinians residing in refugee camps Hughes, 2016, Martin, 2015, Natanel, 2016, Parsons & Salter, 2008, Pallister-Wilkins, 2015, Ramadan, 2013, Smith, 2011. They are spaces inhabited by geopolitical agents, people, and objects that forge a "subaltern geopolitics" (Sharp, 2011) of care and contestation (Amir, 2014, Ramadan, 2013, Smith, 2011.…”

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Feminist geopolitics and the Middle East: Refuge, belief, and peace

Clark

2017

Geography Compass

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In this article, I draw on the work of feminist and critical political geographers to demonstrate what a feminist geopolitics can offer Middle East studies. I cite scholarship of feminist and critical geographers situated within and outside the region to address three key themes: “refuge,” “belief,” and “peace.” In each theme, I use the “body” as a starting point to convene a justice‐oriented methodology of studying and knowing the Middle East. A major objective and contribution of feminist geopolitics to geography has been to recenter political inquiry from the state to the fleshy matter of the body. A “corporeal geopolitics” understands that all bodies have geopolitical agency, that all bodies are vulnerable—albeit differentially—to politics, and that all bodies are connected within and formative of shared economic, social, and political processes across space. Here, I chart ways that a feminist geopolitical analytic focused on “bodies” can contribute to a more complex understanding of the Middle East, one that operates through specificity, accountability, and care.

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With a Wink and a Nod: Settlement Growth Through Construction as Commemoration in the Occupied West Bank

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Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Staging Israel/Palestine: The geopolitical imaginaries of international tourism

Feminist geopolitics and the Middle East: Refuge, belief, and peace

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