Material Footprints: The Struggle for Borders by Bedouin‐Palestinians in Israel

In the following article, borders become an epistemology for reading the social and political history of settler geographies, and their particular manifestation in the southern Naqab region of Israel. It takes as its starting point the idea that borders are activated in an assemblage of encounters;...

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Published in:Antipode 2018-11, Vol.50 (5), p.1349-1375
Main Author: Plonski, Sharri
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bedouins
Bedouin‐Palestinians
border struggles
Borders
borderscapes
Epistemology
Fieldwork
Life control
Mobility
Palestinian people
Political history
Power
recognition politics
Resilience
Resistance
State power
Zionist settler‐colonialism
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Summary:In the following article, borders become an epistemology for reading the social and political history of settler geographies, and their particular manifestation in the southern Naqab region of Israel. It takes as its starting point the idea that borders are activated in an assemblage of encounters; and that they act as markers, not only of the power of the settler state to rupture and control indigenous life and mobility, but of the multiple resistances that divert, disrupt and unsettle settler movements and spaces. Based on more than three years of fieldwork with the Unrecognised Bedouin‐Palestinian communities of the Naqab, the article investigates the significance of borders in spaces the state has conceived and structured as empty and dead. In exploring the multiple modes of resistance and resilience that constitute Bedouin struggles for recognition in Israel, it finds relevance in the lines they carve out, and the living spaces that persist and evolve in their shadows.
ISSN:0066-4812
1467-8330
DOI:10.1111/anti.12388