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AAG Annual Meeting, 3-7 April, Washington

 

Call for Papers: Palestine and occupation: past, present and future

 

Mikko Joronen (University of Tampere)

Sana Al Sarghali (An-Najah National University)

Mark Griffiths (Northumbria University)

 

The Israeli occupation of Palestine has recently passed a number of significant anniversaries: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 70 years continuation of the Nakba; 50 years of military occupation; and 25 years since the Oslo Peace Accords were to establish the conditions for a sovereign Palestinian state. To mark these anniversaries, this session will bring together geographical research on Palestine and occupation organised around the past, present and future. We invite contributions on topics including, but not limited to: i) legacies of violent histories; ii) contemporary practices of colonial governing, resistance and getting-by; and iii) fears and hopes around the future of Palestine. We thus seek a breadth of papers from scholars engaged in research on Palestine in the following areas (this is not an exhaustive list and we welcome submissions on topics we may have missed):

 

Geographies of political violence

Embodiments and occupation

Gender and occupation

Colonial vulnerabilities

Waiting and (im)mobilities

Checkpoints: bodies, affect, discipline

Planning and colonial appropriation of space

Targeting of bodies: maiming, harming, killing

Settler colonialism and the everyday

Precarity, solidarity and resistance

Reproduction and demographics

Legal geographies of exclusion and precarity

Colonial legacies in Palestine

Palestinian future(s)

 

Within these themes we encourage contributions from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, from theory, methodology and/or empirical research. We intend the session to work towards an eventual special or themed journal issue in the field of geography, though involvement in this is not a pre-requisite for participation in the session.

 

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