Noam Leshem
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noam Leshem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noam |
| FAMILY NAME | Leshem |
| SIGNATURE | LESHEM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7360-9699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Hagar Kotef. The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Paradoxically, perhaps, The Colonizing Self is an unsettling text. It grapples with questions that, for most settler societies, remain unresolved: How can one make a home in the ruins of the home of another? Can one ever feel settled when belonging is inherently reliant on the uprooting of others? Beyond its analytical precision, theoretical nuance, and clarity of voice, it is a careful book in the sense that it emerges out of care and seeks to r…
Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice
The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the expedition merely as an imperial remnant risks ignoring more nuanced histories that bear no resemblance to myths of conquest and masculine heroics. Instead, this paper considers the expedition as a m…
Spaces of abandonment: Genealogies, lives and critical horizons
Abandonment has a long presence in Western cultural, philosophical and legal canon, though most contemporary critical debates focus on its sovereign and juridico-political functions. This article considers the concept of abandonment through its more nuanced and multidimensional appearances: at once a political technology and a material economy, a juridical category and a sphere of intimacy. Following the longer conceptual history of abandonment, …
Life after Ruin: The Struggles over Israel's Depopulated Arab Spaces
Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the landscape of Israel-Palestine was radically transformed. Breaking from conventional focus on explicit sites of violence and devastation, Noam Leshem turns critical attention to 'ordinary' spaces and places where the intricate and often intimate engagements between Jews and myriad Arab spaces takes place to this day. Leshem builds on interdisciplinary studies of space, memory, architecture and history and e…
Re‐inhabiting no‐man's land: Genealogies, political life and critical agendas
This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no‐man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken‐for‐granted status of no‐man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to a vast set of spaces, material conditions and socio‐political circumstances. Despite its popular association with the killing fields of the First World War, no‐man's land is considered here as a rich…
Over our dead bodies: Placing necropolitical activism
Repopulating the Emptiness: A Spatial Critique of Ruination in Israel/Palestine
This paper critically examines the notions of spatial emptiness and ruination through their unsettled appearance in the archive of colonization. Focusing on the history of Zionist colonization of Palestine/ Eretz Israel, it illustrates how the encounter with the land fractures the ideological construct of emptiness and foregrounds the ambiguities found at the heart of the self-assured discourse of Zionism. Though there is an established corpus of…
Over our dead bodies: Placing necropolitical activism
Repopulating the Emptiness: A Spatial Critique of Ruination in Israel/Palestine
This paper critically examines the notions of spatial emptiness and ruination through their unsettled appearance in the archive of colonization. Focusing on the history of Zionist colonization of Palestine/ Eretz Israel, it illustrates how the encounter with the land fractures the ideological construct of emptiness and foregrounds the ambiguities found at the heart of the self-assured discourse of Zionism. Though there is an established corpus of…
Re‐inhabiting no‐man's land: Genealogies, political life and critical agendas
This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no‐man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken‐for‐granted status of no‐man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to a vast set of spaces, material conditions and socio‐political circumstances. Despite its popular association with the killing fields of the First World War, no‐man's land is considered here as a rich…
Spaces of abandonment: Genealogies, lives and critical horizons
Abandonment has a long presence in Western cultural, philosophical and legal canon, though most contemporary critical debates focus on its sovereign and juridico-political functions. This article considers the concept of abandonment through its more nuanced and multidimensional appearances: at once a political technology and a material economy, a juridical category and a sphere of intimacy. Following the longer conceptual history of abandonment, …
Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice
The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the expedition merely as an imperial remnant risks ignoring more nuanced histories that bear no resemblance to myths of conquest and masculine heroics. Instead, this paper considers the expedition as a m…
Repopulating the Emptiness: A Spatial Critique of Ruination in Israel/Palestine
This paper critically examines the notions of spatial emptiness and ruination through their unsettled appearance in the archive of colonization. Focusing on the history of Zionist colonization of Palestine/ Eretz Israel, it illustrates how the encounter with the land fractures the ideological construct of emptiness and foregrounds the ambiguities found at the heart of the self-assured discourse of Zionism. Though there is an established corpus of…
Re‐inhabiting no‐man's land: Genealogies, political life and critical agendas
This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no‐man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken‐for‐granted status of no‐man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to a vast set of spaces, material conditions and socio‐political circumstances. Despite its popular association with the killing fields of the First World War, no‐man's land is considered here as a rich…
Over our dead bodies: Placing necropolitical activism
Life after Ruin: The Struggles over Israel's Depopulated Arab Spaces
Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the landscape of Israel-Palestine was radically transformed. Breaking from conventional focus on explicit sites of violence and devastation, Noam Leshem turns critical attention to 'ordinary' spaces and places where the intricate and often intimate engagements between Jews and myriad Arab spaces takes place to this day. Leshem builds on interdisciplinary studies of space, memory, architecture and history and e…
Spaces of abandonment: Genealogies, lives and critical horizons
Abandonment has a long presence in Western cultural, philosophical and legal canon, though most contemporary critical debates focus on its sovereign and juridico-political functions. This article considers the concept of abandonment through its more nuanced and multidimensional appearances: at once a political technology and a material economy, a juridical category and a sphere of intimacy. Following the longer conceptual history of abandonment, …
Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice
The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the expedition merely as an imperial remnant risks ignoring more nuanced histories that bear no resemblance to myths of conquest and masculine heroics. Instead, this paper considers the expedition as a m…
Hagar Kotef. The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Paradoxically, perhaps, The Colonizing Self is an unsettling text. It grapples with questions that, for most settler societies, remain unresolved: How can one make a home in the ruins of the home of another? Can one ever feel settled when belonging is inherently reliant on the uprooting of others? Beyond its analytical precision, theoretical nuance, and clarity of voice, it is a careful book in the sense that it emerges out of care and seeks to r…
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