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P091


Shifting populations, permanent instability, suspended stay: contemporary mobilities in Palestine and Israel 
Convenor:
Nayrouz Abu Hatoum (Columbia University )
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Format:
Panels
Location:
SO-F497
Sessions:
Friday 17 August, -
Time zone: Europe/Stockholm

Short Abstract:

This panel examines how, in Palestine and Israel, populations and spaces simultaneously and differently stay, move, and settle and the effect these dynamics have on their lives, bodies, environments and nationalist political imaginations.

Long Abstract:

Contemporary Palestine and Israel are populated and shaped by groups with different mobilities and border realities. Restricted by continuing Israeli settler colonial expansion and military occupation, Palestinians are confined to small geographies. Palestinian refugees, resident in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), are unable to return to their own lands but forced to remain in camps often mere kilometres from their places of origin. Israelis, are, however able to mobilise and settle the remaining of the West Bank. Settlements offer upward mobility for Jewish Israelis, impacting a catastrophic downturn in social mobility in the surrounding Palestinian spaces. The Palestinian landscape is continuously being militarized, walled, and destroyed by a colonizing state, resulting in gross land loss and displacement. The Wall and the military checkpoint matrix in the oPt render Palestinian bodies as incarcerated. This panel examines how, in Palestine and Israel, populations and spaces simultaneously and differently stay, move, and settle and the effect these dynamics have on their lives, bodies, environments and nationalist political imaginations. It asks the following: What does it mean to fight for staying put, and steadfast on the land resisting government displacement, relocation or land confiscation? What are the dwelling practices utilized by those who are forced to relocate, or those who choose to move? What are the processes of meaning-making that people generate to speak of the transforming landscape (urban, village, border, historical, visual)? Finally, how do changing mobilities speak to a shift away from (historical) nationalist narratives and a discourse of state formation?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 17 August, 2018, -