Encountering Palestine

Mark Griffiths is an academic track fellow at Newcastle University. Mikko Joronen is a Finnish Academy research fellow at Tampere University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Encountering Palestine, Un/doing PowerMark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen1. An Intimate Occupation: Governing Love in Occupied PalestineKathryn Medien2. Settler Capitalism and Its Witches: Palestinian Bedouin Women Struggling for Space and the Commons in the NaqabSophie Richter-Devroe3. Encountering the Israeli War Machine: Imminent (In)security, Vortical Violence, Rhizomatic SumudWassim Ghantous4. The Regavim Show: Settler Colonialism, Simulacra, and MirroringMark Griffiths5. Staying with the Failures: Iron Dome and Zionist Security “Innovation”Rhys Machold6. Neo-Apartheid Jerusalem: Palestine/Israel and the Question of Urban ApartheidHaim Yacobi and Moriel Ram7. Expectations to Fulfill: Anticipating the Familial Future in Palestinian Refugee CampsTiina JÄrvi8. Surreal Resistance in Elia Suleiman’s Divine InterventionArun Saldanha9. Queering Esthesis: Unsettling the Zionist Sensual RegimeWalaa Alqaisiya10. Life of the Wounded: Rethinking Settler Colonial Power in PalestineMikko JoronenElegy for ReturnZena AghaContributorsIndex

“As Encountering Palestine argues and makes clear ‘the question of Palestine is an inherently geographical one.’ In this collective volume we have a comprehensive account of the geographies of Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine-its contours of violence, spatial politics, frictions, intimacies, and resistances. Situating contemporary Palestinian colonial geographies in the past, present, and future, the chapters speak to ongoing struggles for liberation in Palestine and beyond, showing in the process how Palestinian life and, with it, resistance are both local and global.”-Polly Pallister-Wilkins, author of Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives “Few works have explored the geographies of encounters. Encountering Palestine adds to the expansive scholarly work on the destructive consequences of settler-colonial spatial politics by formulating encounters as a productive site of meaning-making where Palestinian lives interact with various forms, techniques, and apparatuses of settler-colonial power.”-Somdeep Sen, author of Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial “Encountering Palestine offers a new set of arguments about how to understand and frame colonial power and colonial encounters in Israel/Palestine. While the ongoing violence of Israeli colonialism and what the editors refer to as Palestinian woundedness slips in and out of the mainstream media, many chapters bring to the fore why this situation remains urgent even as so much of the violence described is slow or quiet. This collection makes a clear contribution to studies of Palestine/Israel and colonial studies more broadly.”-Christopher Harker, author of Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine