Making settler colonialism concrete

Agentive materialism and habitational violence in Palestine

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12739986
AutoresKate Siegfried (Texas A&M University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen17
Número3
Páginas267-284
Fecha de publicación2020-07-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14791420.2020.1787475
OpenAlexW3041865887
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

Through home sealing in Palestine, the Israeli state utilizes the agentive materialism and political valence of concrete as settler colonial state building tools. By rendering the home uninhabitable, the walls of the home are transformed into border walls, while the sealed home rhetorically functions as a relic of collective punishment. Home sealing is an expression of the Israeli state's permanent anxiety surrounding Palestinian compositional power. This essay demonstrates the urgency for approaching settler-colonial state logics through a lens rooted in decolonial approaches to materialist rhetoric and rhetorical studies of space and place

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Colonialism · Epistemology · Literature · Materialism · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · State of exception · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art · Rhetoric and Communication Studies