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Online Publication Date: 16 Mar 2011

New Geographies of Palestine/Palestinians

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DOI: 10.5555/arwg.13.3-4.f4v3g87401725811
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Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the amount of geographical scholarship on Palestine and/or Palestinians. This paper draws this scholarship together to make three arguments. First, I argue that this work has proliferated to the point where geographies of Palestine and Palestinians are now a substantive area of study in their own right. Second, I contend that there has been a concomitant diversification in the ways in which the peoples and places that constitute Palestine have been envisioned; while geopolitics has traditionally been used to apprehend Palestinian geographies, particularly in relation to the Occupied Territories, there are now a number of studies that employ other epistemological approaches and engage with Palestinians in other spatial contexts. Third, I argue that this diversification mirrors broader changes in political activism vis-à-vis Palestine and that many of the studies I review here function as a kind of solidarity scholarship to practices of cross-state citizen activism. This article contributes to such an ethos by using the act of review as a critical geographical tool to claim conceptual space for Palestine and Palestinians. This raises further questions about the material spaces and spacings that geographers of Palestinian and Palestinians are individually and collectively proposing.

Un nombre croissant de recherches géographiques consacrées à la Palestine et aux Palestiniens a été produit au cours de la dernière décennie. Cet article puise dans cette recherche pour faire trois propositions. Tout d'abord, je montre que le travail portant sur les géographies de la Palestine et des Palestiniens a proliféré au point où il est maintenant possible d'identifier un champ d'études propre. Deuxièmement, j'avance qu'il y a eu, de manière concomitante, une diversité des façons dont les populations et les lieux qui constituent la Palestine ont été abordées. Alors que la géopolitique a été traditionnellement utilisée pour saisir les géographies palestiniennes, en particulier en rapport aux Territoires Occupés, nombre d'études emploient maintenant d'autres approches épistémologiques et analysent les Palestiniens dans d'autres contextes spatiaux. Enfin, je soutiens que cette diversification reflète des changements profonds dans l'activisme politique envers la Palestine et que, dans de nombreuses études signalées, une forme de recherche de solidarité et un activisme citoyen trans-étatique se manifeste. Cet article contribue lui aussi à ce mouvement, en instrumentalisant le compte-rendu comme un outil de géographie critique afin d'approprier un espace conceptuel pour la Palestine et les Palestiniens. Cet acte soulève de nouvelles questions sur les espaces et la production d'espaces matériels que proposent les géographes de la Palestine et des Palestiniens, individuellement ou collectivement.

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