Al-Nakba and Palestine: 60 Years Later
Organizers: Ron Smith and Adam Ramadan
Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston
In 1948, the modern state of Israel was established on land claimed by its
Palestinian inhabitants. What Israelis call their day of Independence, Yom
Ha'atzmaut, is referred to in Palestinian discourse as Al Nakba, 'the
catastrophe', in which Palestinian society was destroyed and 750,000
Palestinians became refugees. The effects of the Palestinian Nakba are
ongoing, so that 60 years later Palestinians remain divided by categories of
citizen and refugee, fragmented across borders and checkpoints, living under
military occupation or with second-class status in Israel and neighbouring
Arab states.
This session will examine contemporary geographies of Palestine and
Palestinians, both within Israel/Palestine and without, 60 years after the
Nakba. We are seeking papers related to the social, political and spatial
realities of Palestinian lives, addressing questions of identity, freedom
and liberation, or illustrating the struggle for minds and bodies within the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Potential paper topics might include, but are not limited to:
Land and Commemoration, recognizing Palestine within the diaspora
Spacial divisions within and without Gaza and the West Bank
Legality and Law under occupation
Citizenship and privilege within the 1948 Borders of Israel
Please send abstracts to smithrj AT u DOT washington DOT edu
or
adamramadan AT hotmail DOT com.
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