Dear colleagues,
We invite proposals for our panel: 'Shifting populations, permanent
instability, suspended stay: contemporary mobilities in Palestine and
Israel' (P091) to be presented at the EASA biennial conference "Staying,
Moving, Settling" in Stockholm, 14-18 August 2018.
Call for Papers closes on 9 April. Please propose your paper via the
following link:
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6677
*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 ever smaller geographies. Palestinian refugees, temporarily
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, however, are able to
mobilise and settle the remaining 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 renders 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)? And finally, how do changing mobilities speak to a shift away from
(historical) nationalist narratives and a discourse of state formation?
We look forward to receiving your proposals. Should you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to contact us.
Very best,
Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, Utrecht University
- Caitlin Procter, University of Oxford
- Branwen Spector, London School of Economics
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