scholarly journals Decolonial Enactments of Human Resilience

2021 ◽  
pp. 565-583
Author(s):  
Devin G. Atallah
Keyword(s):  
Structural Violence ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Global South ◽  
Ecological Models ◽  
The West ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
Palestinian Refugee

Critical insights on multisystemic resilience are grounded in Global South knowledge on the complexity of human relationality, which underscores that resilience does not fit neatly into ecological models. These insights are rooted in colonized communities’ embodied and emplaced struggles for dignity and decolonization. Therefore, this chapter shares the author’s reflections on multisystemic dimensions of human resilience emerging from voices of two displaced Palestinian families who participated in one of the author’s previously completed studies in the colonized territory of the West Bank. When reading through the intergenerational narratives of the two Palestinian refugee families featured in this chapter, the author invites readers to accompany him in bearing witness to stories of profound suffering associated with colonial structural violence, yet also stories of radical rehumanization, which manifest as decolonial enactments of resilience.

Multilocality and the Politics of Space in Protracted Exile

Transfers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The West ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Politics Of Space

This article employs the concept of multilocality to analyze the politics of space under the condition of protracted encampment. Rather than adopting a common synchronic approach to how refugees relate to space, the theoretical lens of multilocality grasps the diachronic dimension of protracted camps understood as places that encompass multiple attachments across time and space: the remembered and imagined places of origin, sites of residence in exile, and future geographies of hope or anticipation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in al-Am’ari, a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, I analyze multilocality as a political practice whereby local residents and organizations nurture the refugee identity of their communities, resist the permanence of protracted exile, and manifest the necessity for political change.

Photos from the Quarter

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The West ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Palestinian Refugee

This sample of photos, selected from hundreds viewed by JPS, aims to convey a sense of Palestinian life during this quarter (16 August–15 November 2016). Palestinian refugee camps from northern Syria, to Lebanon, to the West Bank, to Gaza are featured in the images, as are protests about a diversity of topics ranging from hunger strikers, to Israeli settlers, and delayed Palestinian municipal elections.

Palestinian Refugee Visits to Their Former Homes

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-449
Author(s):  
Menachem Klein
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
West Bank ◽  
The West ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Upper Middle Class

This article compares Palestinian refugees and exiles' written accounts of their visits to their places of origin in present-day Israel. The discussion is based on texts published by educated, upper-middle-class Palestinians living in the diaspora or in the West Bank, who made their visits as private citizens. After surveying the existing literature on refugee visits their homes in other post-conflict zones, the article discusses an aspect of Palestinian visits that previous studies have left untouched: the encounter between visitors and present occupants.

Pilgrims, Protest Tourists, and Palestinians: Abu Dis, Bethlehem, Dheisheh Camp

2020 ◽  
pp. 016059762096475
Author(s):  
Philip Hopper
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The West ◽  
Central Idea ◽  
Occupied Palestinian Territory ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Palestinian Territory ◽  
Permanent Residents

The central idea of this essay is that nonindigenous vernacular image-making by protest tourists on the Palestinian side of the Israeli separation barrier and elsewhere holds little meaning for the permanent residents beyond a relatively minor revenue stream. Prior to making this argument, I provide a short historical background about the use of vernacular messages in the occupied Palestinian territory known as the West Bank. I then focus on images of martyrs or shaheed and then on separation barrier images by protest tourists mostly in Bethlehem. The final sections are about two artists from the Dheisheh Palestinian Refugee Camp and the images they create within the camp. A coda of sorts discusses a mural within the camp that is venerated by the residents as opposed to the overpainting and defacement that takes place on the separation barrier. Within this final section and elsewhere within this essay, the meaning of sumood is explicated. As a note, protest tourists are defined here not as anti-tourism protesters but rather as tourists whose intent is protest Israeli policies regarding Palestinians.

Palestinian refugee women and the Jenin refugee camp: Reflections on urbicide and the dilemmas of home in exile

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (14) ◽  
pp. 2897-2916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahera Bleibleh ◽  
Michael Vicente Perez ◽  
Thaira Bleibleh
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Women ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Right Of Return ◽  
The Future ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
The Right

In March 2002, the Israeli military launched its most lethal attack on the West Bank since 1967. In the Jenin refugee camp, the assault included the deliberate destruction of homes and infrastructure including the entire Hawashin neighbourhood. This article considers the memories of Palestinian women who survived the urbicidal war on Jenin and confronted the difficulties of reconstruction. It shows how women enacted particular forms of agency during the siege that do not fit into discussions of urbicide or national resistance. Our analysis also examines the reconstruction of the Jenin camp to understand how its transformation reveals its significance for Palestinian women at both the levels of the home and the urban camp. We argue that the meaning of the camp is inseparable from the different ways it is inhabited. Thus for Palestinian women, the spatial reconfiguration of homes during the reconstruction of the camp permanently erased the experience of sociality once lived by women before the attack. This not only reproduced the effects of the urbicide but also disturbed the ways women inhabited the camp and provoked fears that it could be transformed into a permanent space and thus preclude the possibility of the right of return in the future.

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