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Abstract
The 2005 Israeli Disengagement from the Gaza Strip has left this region in a political and legal limbo. No longer strictly and fully complying with the definition of an occupied territory, the Strip, which has been under siege from 2007, cannot similarly be considered as fully independent. This paper argues that the Israeli control of Gaza is predicated on relegating this control to the past. Accordingly, it offers ‘post-occupation’ as a conceptual framework for deciphering Israel’s modalities of power over the Strip, claiming that rather than signifying a clear break from a now defunct occupation, post-occupation demarcates the persistence of Israeli domination. By rendering Gaza to the status of a post-occupation Israel can infer that Gaza’s future has already arrived, and relinquish its responsibilities towards the Strip and its residents through a fabrication of Palestinian political agency, while holding the Palestinian futures captive. The post-occupation condition therefore confounds normative narrations of time, while disrupting the distinction between past, present and future. This examination of the Disengagement and the siege as operating in tandem reveals that Israel substituted a burdensome and costly occupation with a more parsimonious spatial containment of Gaza, which allowed it to retain its grasp of Palestinian futurity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 283-300 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography |
Volume | 103 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 06 Aug 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 02 Oct 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- futures
- Israel
- palestine
- temporality
- the Gaza strip
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
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Keynote Lecture: Rethinking Futurity in Palestine/Israel
Amir, M. (Keynote speaker)
09 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
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Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography (Journal)
Amir, M. (Guest editor)
12 May 2020 → 25 Nov 2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity