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*with the usual apologies* Call for Papers: Exploring the Colonial Present: Contemporary Research on Palestine Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers Seattle, Washington, April 12-16, 2011 Organizers: Omar Jabary Salamanca (Gent University), Lisa Bhungalia (Syracuse University), and Kareem Rabie (CUNY Graduate Center) The recent wave of scholarship in Geography addressing the Palestinian-Israeli question has often emphasized colonial practices from a geopolitical perspective and scale, and has focused on the mechanics of Israeli occupation through issues of territory and territoriality, borders, violence, militarization, and so on. This research is characterized on the one hand by a presentist tendency that contributes to the framing of this particular situation as exceptional and without similarities to other colonial conflicts. And on the other hand, by a shortage of local empirical research and consequently, characterizations of Palestine and Palestinians as a cohesive and homogeneous entity. Within the structure of Israeli settler colonialism and in the present context, aid intervention, neoliberal practice, and actors such as Palestinian elites and returnees, donor governments, subcontracting agencies, international organizations as well as local governments, grassroots movements, settlers, and other actors are reshaping socio-political, spatial, legal, economic, and environmental relations in Palestine. This paper session invites scholars to theorize Palestine from a critical perspective at the intersection of different political, economic, legal, and other processes operating at multiple scales in order to explore the similarities and differences between the Palestinian case and other colonial conflicts or global struggles for social justice. As such, we encourage empirical as well as theoretical papers that can be historical or contemporary on topics that may include—but are not limited to—the following: Aid intervention: development, and humanitarianism Neoliberal reforms The politics of infrastructure building and privatization Environmental politics Economic planning Colonial bureaucracies Political and social normalization Palestine in the regional and global economies Diaspora and global activism Intersectionality of race, class, and gender in the colonial context New Middle Eastern urbanism Cartographies and mapping Zionism, settlement, and Zionist conceptions of territory Grassroots activism and social movements Decolonization Law and Israeli lawfare Security discourse and the militarization of the Palestinian Authority Geographies of settler colonialism Please submit abstracts to Omar Jabary Salamanca (omar.jab...@ugent.be), Lisa Bhungalia (lbhun...@syr.edu), and Kareem Rabie (kareemra...@gmail.com) by October 19, 2010. Abstracts must be received and participants must be registered by this date in order to allow time to read abstracts and prepare the final panel submission by October 20, 2010. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
