Sophia Stamatopoulou‐robbin
Biographic Data
| ID | 100511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophia Stamatopoulou‐robbin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophia |
| FAMILY NAME | Stamatopoulou‐robbin |
| SIGNATURE | ROBBIN S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6113-9864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Absenting as a Repertoire of Action
This article draws on fieldwork in the West Bank (2007–2017) to understand how dispossession and ruination are not only spatialized, but engaged and remade. It examines experiences of a settler frontier in Faqu'a, a Palestinian village. People there have a visual vantage point onto the majority of the village lands, which have been expropriated by Israel. Following a demolition by Israel, Faqu'ans have transformed this frontier site from a place …
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
Book Review Forum on Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial /Somdeep Sen. Ithaca, NY:Cornell University Press. x and171 pp. $25.95 paper (ISBN 978-1501752742); $65.55 cloth (ISBN 978-1501752735)
Introduction: Infrastructure, Environment, and Health in Palestine
The Journal of Palestine Studies’ special issue on infrastructure, environment, and health in Palestine sheds new light on the conditions and possibilities of politics. Although it is commonly viewed as “an entity ostensibly separate from technology and other human constructions,” the environment is in fact a particular configuration of “socio-technical arrangements.” The special issue’s four articles and two reflection essays—by Nadi Abusaada, L…
Scratch-and-sniff Palestine: How olfaction shapes nonsovereign infrastructural spaces
This article makes two related arguments. First, that the continuum of hazards that people can experience in relation to waste infrastructures can include unstable epistemic and political positionings of olfaction, alongside other impingements of human excrement such as toxicity to the human body and damage to ecologies. I show this by paying attention to how people are sensitized to smell and by paying attention to how diverse forms of scientifi…
Excrement, Scale, and the Politics of Neglect: How Life Politics Became Progressive Critique
Cet article est le fruit d’un terrain de recherche de plusieurs années en Palestine et s’appuie sur trois arguments qui se répondent. Tout d’abord, contrairement à ce qui a été soutenu, l’établissement d’une politique de la mort remonte aux années 1970 et non à celles de la deuxième Intifada (2000-2006). Une politique de la mort est caractérisée par le mépris à l’égard de la vie humaine, notamment par le meurtre et l’utilisation de « boucliers hu…
Excrement, scale, and the politics of neglect: How life politics became progressive critique
Failure to build: Sewage and the choppy temporality of infrastructure in Palestine
Drawing on fieldwork in the West Bank (2007-2016) with engineers building sewage infrastructures for the would-be Palestinian state, I make a three-pronged argument. First, I argue that "failure to build" is its own thick, disorienting, and molasses-like condition. It is also "choppy": it has a disjointed, jerky, quality that is inconstant and unsettling as if one is at sea without a lifeboat. It is limited neither to short-term, tactical governa…
Enduring waste: Subjects and objects of siege
Occupied Home-Sharing: Airbnb in Palestine
If home is the engine room of Palestinian subjectivities, what does Airbnb do to the functioning of that engine?What do the experiences of Palestinian hosts demonstrate about the logics, presuppositions, and effects of Airbnb as a technology of platform capitalism?This essay makes two arguments: First, in enrolling people into new relations with their homes and the homes of others, Airbnb shapes and is shaped by socialities, modes of exchange, an…
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians are obliged to forge their lives. To speak of waste siege is to describe a series of conditions, from smelling wastes to negotiating military infrastructures, from biopolitical forms of colonial rule to experiences of governmental abandonment, from obvious targets of resistance to confusion o…
Space and Mobility in Palestine. Julie Peteet. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 252 pp
An Uncertain Climate in Risky Times: How Occupation Became Like the Rain in Post-Oslo Palestine
Recent Palestinian Authority (PA) initiatives to help Palestine adapt to climate change help shine light on the role that climate uncertainties play in how political futures can be represented. UN-led adaptation has occasioned opportunities for new networks of actors to make claims about Palestinian futures and to perform PA readiness for statehood. These actors weigh scientific uncertainties about climate against uncertainties over if and when s…
Occupational Hazards
Stamatopoulou-Robbins’s essay begins with an unlikely meeting between two groups—Israeli settlers and Palestinian village residents—who together opposed construction of a Palestinian Authority–run landfill in the central West Bank. Attention to this 2013 moment of infrastructure-in-the-making sheds light on another, conceptual alliance. On one end, “thing theorists” argue for an understanding of infrastructures’ nonhuman, agentive capacity to ass…
The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in Palestine: Prosthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations
The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in PalestineProsthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (bio) When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel that into more work. Coming here is one of the better things I’ve ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white peop…
Failure to build: Sewage and the choppy temporality of infrastructure in Palestine
Drawing on fieldwork in the West Bank (2007-2016) with engineers building sewage infrastructures for the would-be Palestinian state, I make a three-pronged argument. First, I argue that "failure to build" is its own thick, disorienting, and molasses-like condition. It is also "choppy": it has a disjointed, jerky, quality that is inconstant and unsettling as if one is at sea without a lifeboat. It is limited neither to short-term, tactical governa…
An Uncertain Climate in Risky Times: How Occupation Became Like the Rain in Post-Oslo Palestine
Recent Palestinian Authority (PA) initiatives to help Palestine adapt to climate change help shine light on the role that climate uncertainties play in how political futures can be represented. UN-led adaptation has occasioned opportunities for new networks of actors to make claims about Palestinian futures and to perform PA readiness for statehood. These actors weigh scientific uncertainties about climate against uncertainties over if and when s…
Occupational Hazards
Stamatopoulou-Robbins’s essay begins with an unlikely meeting between two groups—Israeli settlers and Palestinian village residents—who together opposed construction of a Palestinian Authority–run landfill in the central West Bank. Attention to this 2013 moment of infrastructure-in-the-making sheds light on another, conceptual alliance. On one end, “thing theorists” argue for an understanding of infrastructures’ nonhuman, agentive capacity to ass…
The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in Palestine: Prosthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations
The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in PalestineProsthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (bio) When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel that into more work. Coming here is one of the better things I’ve ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white peop…
Scratch-and-sniff Palestine: How olfaction shapes nonsovereign infrastructural spaces
This article makes two related arguments. First, that the continuum of hazards that people can experience in relation to waste infrastructures can include unstable epistemic and political positionings of olfaction, alongside other impingements of human excrement such as toxicity to the human body and damage to ecologies. I show this by paying attention to how people are sensitized to smell and by paying attention to how diverse forms of scientifi…
The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in Palestine: Prosthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations
The Joys and Dangers of Solidarity in PalestineProsthetic Engagement in an Age of Reparations Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (bio) When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel that into more work. Coming here is one of the better things I’ve ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white peop…
Occupational Hazards
Stamatopoulou-Robbins’s essay begins with an unlikely meeting between two groups—Israeli settlers and Palestinian village residents—who together opposed construction of a Palestinian Authority–run landfill in the central West Bank. Attention to this 2013 moment of infrastructure-in-the-making sheds light on another, conceptual alliance. On one end, “thing theorists” argue for an understanding of infrastructures’ nonhuman, agentive capacity to ass…
Space and Mobility in Palestine. Julie Peteet. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 252 pp
An Uncertain Climate in Risky Times: How Occupation Became Like the Rain in Post-Oslo Palestine
Recent Palestinian Authority (PA) initiatives to help Palestine adapt to climate change help shine light on the role that climate uncertainties play in how political futures can be represented. UN-led adaptation has occasioned opportunities for new networks of actors to make claims about Palestinian futures and to perform PA readiness for statehood. These actors weigh scientific uncertainties about climate against uncertainties over if and when s…
Occupied Home-Sharing: Airbnb in Palestine
If home is the engine room of Palestinian subjectivities, what does Airbnb do to the functioning of that engine?What do the experiences of Palestinian hosts demonstrate about the logics, presuppositions, and effects of Airbnb as a technology of platform capitalism?This essay makes two arguments: First, in enrolling people into new relations with their homes and the homes of others, Airbnb shapes and is shaped by socialities, modes of exchange, an…
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians are obliged to forge their lives. To speak of waste siege is to describe a series of conditions, from smelling wastes to negotiating military infrastructures, from biopolitical forms of colonial rule to experiences of governmental abandonment, from obvious targets of resistance to confusion o…
Excrement, Scale, and the Politics of Neglect: How Life Politics Became Progressive Critique
Cet article est le fruit d’un terrain de recherche de plusieurs années en Palestine et s’appuie sur trois arguments qui se répondent. Tout d’abord, contrairement à ce qui a été soutenu, l’établissement d’une politique de la mort remonte aux années 1970 et non à celles de la deuxième Intifada (2000-2006). Une politique de la mort est caractérisée par le mépris à l’égard de la vie humaine, notamment par le meurtre et l’utilisation de « boucliers hu…
Excrement, scale, and the politics of neglect: How life politics became progressive critique
Failure to build: Sewage and the choppy temporality of infrastructure in Palestine
Drawing on fieldwork in the West Bank (2007-2016) with engineers building sewage infrastructures for the would-be Palestinian state, I make a three-pronged argument. First, I argue that "failure to build" is its own thick, disorienting, and molasses-like condition. It is also "choppy": it has a disjointed, jerky, quality that is inconstant and unsettling as if one is at sea without a lifeboat. It is limited neither to short-term, tactical governa…
Enduring waste: Subjects and objects of siege
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
Book Review Forum on Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial /Somdeep Sen. Ithaca, NY:Cornell University Press. x and171 pp. $25.95 paper (ISBN 978-1501752742); $65.55 cloth (ISBN 978-1501752735)
Introduction: Infrastructure, Environment, and Health in Palestine
The Journal of Palestine Studies’ special issue on infrastructure, environment, and health in Palestine sheds new light on the conditions and possibilities of politics. Although it is commonly viewed as “an entity ostensibly separate from technology and other human constructions,” the environment is in fact a particular configuration of “socio-technical arrangements.” The special issue’s four articles and two reflection essays—by Nadi Abusaada, L…
Scratch-and-sniff Palestine: How olfaction shapes nonsovereign infrastructural spaces
This article makes two related arguments. First, that the continuum of hazards that people can experience in relation to waste infrastructures can include unstable epistemic and political positionings of olfaction, alongside other impingements of human excrement such as toxicity to the human body and damage to ecologies. I show this by paying attention to how people are sensitized to smell and by paying attention to how diverse forms of scientifi…
Absenting as a Repertoire of Action
This article draws on fieldwork in the West Bank (2007–2017) to understand how dispossession and ruination are not only spatialized, but engaged and remade. It examines experiences of a settler frontier in Faqu'a, a Palestinian village. People there have a visual vantage point onto the majority of the village lands, which have been expropriated by Israel. Following a demolition by Israel, Faqu'ans have transformed this frontier site from a place …
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