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Curated Track: 

Mikko Joronen, Tampere University

Description:

At the time of intensified colonial and imperial ruination of Palestine, we invite geographers to submit proposals critically examining the ongoing destruction of Palestinian spaces, lands, and landscapes—including livelihoods, environments, infrastructures, milieus, volumes and spheres of living—and the various aims think with, through, and (away) from them. We welcome various works related to different entanglements entrenching and sustaining, but also in friction with and resurrecting from Israel’s settler colonial project of erasing Palestine. We are particularly interested in explorations that start from the ruins of Palestinian landscapes: conditions of life and death, regimes of (im)mobility, environmental reconfigurations, material and affective atmospheres, infrastructural (im)possibilities, and technologies of elimination and life-making. Accordingly, topics could include (but are not limited to): Palestinian everyday struggles against intensified violence, homelessness, famine, and infrastructural collapse; the short- and long-term effects of mass bombardment, destruction, and intoxication of the soil, land, water and air; the global regimes and circulations that sustain Israel’s genocidal actions and those who struggle to halt and overcome them. We also welcome contributions that address the question how we, as geographers, respond to Israel’s brutal war on Palestine and the region.

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