Irit Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irit Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irit |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1902-5067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Climate change resettlement and inhabitation
Climate change is an inherently human-made phenomenon that shapes the mobilities of species and things who, in turn, influence the ways climate change is experienced by humans. These multifaceted climate mobilities are grounded in the spatial histories of imperialism and settler-colonialism, and the legacies of socio-cultural injustice inflicted upon the Global South. Central to climate mobilities is climate change resettlement, which, because it…
Phantom Inhabitation
The French port city of Calais has increasingly become uninhabitable for migrants. While their presence in the city center has been criminalized, the encampments on its outskirts are routinely, violently demolished. These uninhabitable and erased spaces, this paper argues, form traumatic and dehumanizing environments which haunt both the migrants and the city. Migrants, however, find ways to cope with these haunting spaces by creating artwork in …
Borderzone Departure Cities
The increasing fortification of borders produces new urban forms of irregular migration. This paper invokes the concept of “borderzone departure cities” as urban constellations created where global migration routes meet blocked borders in cities which become jumping‐off points from which migrants try to depart. The paper examines Athens and Calais as borderzone departure cities located at both sides of the EU Schengen area. By focussing on the At…
Mobilities and Ethnic Studies
Following the publication of a 2022 special issue in the journal Mobilities, several of the contributing authors and editors gathered virtually on July 26, 2022. Drawing upon the work included w the collection called "Mobilizing Indigeneity and Race Within and Against Settler Colonialism," the participants discuss how they came to the subject of mobilities, how this concept impacts their work, and the ways it intersects with the fields of Ethnic …
Mobile Colonial Architecture
Grounded in space yet facilitated by mobility, settler colonialism has adopted distinct architectural devices. Tents, prefabricated shelters, mobile homes, shipping containers, and other portable structures, have created the scaffoldings of new colonial settlements, allowing for rapid territorial expansion. These mobile spatial objects have also served as instruments of expulsion and expropriation, facilitating the creation of spaces of counterin…
Rethinking the camp
In light of the recent proliferation and co-presence of institutional and makeshift camps and encampments in Europe, this article explores the current multifaceted geographies of the camp and their formal and informal spatialities. By engaging with key work in 'camp studies' we analyse contemporary institutional and makeshift refugee camps in their complex relationship. While the review of the existing literature is a fundamental starting point f…
Urban recalibrations and radical potentials
‘The Common Camp’
From their emergence in the 19th century to their current global proliferation, camps have been created extensively by and for different populations under the modern state order. Whether employed by national and colonial powers as instruments of control, or constructed ad hoc by displaced populations as makeshift spaces of refuge, camps are used as a versatile instrument for the rearrangement of people in space. In Israel-Palestine, camps are par…
Camp evolution and Israel's creation
Spreading and concentrating
Through the analysis of camps in Israel/Palestine and their use in the past and present for two complementary purposes--to rapidly spread and settle the Jewish population and to concentrate and suspend Arab populations--this paper explores the versatile role of the camp in the struggles over the frontiers of this contested territory. Within this geopolitical context, I empirically examine two frontier camps in the Negev/Naqab desert: the historic…
From spaces of thanatopolitics to spaces of natality – A commentary on ‘Geographies of the camp’
Rethinking the camp
In light of the recent proliferation and co-presence of institutional and makeshift camps and encampments in Europe, this article explores the current multifaceted geographies of the camp and their formal and informal spatialities. By engaging with key work in 'camp studies' we analyse contemporary institutional and makeshift refugee camps in their complex relationship. While the review of the existing literature is a fundamental starting point f…
From spaces of thanatopolitics to spaces of natality – A commentary on ‘Geographies of the camp’
Mobile Colonial Architecture
Grounded in space yet facilitated by mobility, settler colonialism has adopted distinct architectural devices. Tents, prefabricated shelters, mobile homes, shipping containers, and other portable structures, have created the scaffoldings of new colonial settlements, allowing for rapid territorial expansion. These mobile spatial objects have also served as instruments of expulsion and expropriation, facilitating the creation of spaces of counterin…
Spreading and concentrating
Through the analysis of camps in Israel/Palestine and their use in the past and present for two complementary purposes--to rapidly spread and settle the Jewish population and to concentrate and suspend Arab populations--this paper explores the versatile role of the camp in the struggles over the frontiers of this contested territory. Within this geopolitical context, I empirically examine two frontier camps in the Negev/Naqab desert: the historic…
Camp evolution and Israel's creation
Borderzone Departure Cities
The increasing fortification of borders produces new urban forms of irregular migration. This paper invokes the concept of “borderzone departure cities” as urban constellations created where global migration routes meet blocked borders in cities which become jumping‐off points from which migrants try to depart. The paper examines Athens and Calais as borderzone departure cities located at both sides of the EU Schengen area. By focussing on the At…
Spreading and concentrating
Through the analysis of camps in Israel/Palestine and their use in the past and present for two complementary purposes--to rapidly spread and settle the Jewish population and to concentrate and suspend Arab populations--this paper explores the versatile role of the camp in the struggles over the frontiers of this contested territory. Within this geopolitical context, I empirically examine two frontier camps in the Negev/Naqab desert: the historic…
From spaces of thanatopolitics to spaces of natality – A commentary on ‘Geographies of the camp’
Camp evolution and Israel's creation
‘The Common Camp’
From their emergence in the 19th century to their current global proliferation, camps have been created extensively by and for different populations under the modern state order. Whether employed by national and colonial powers as instruments of control, or constructed ad hoc by displaced populations as makeshift spaces of refuge, camps are used as a versatile instrument for the rearrangement of people in space. In Israel-Palestine, camps are par…
Urban recalibrations and radical potentials
Rethinking the camp
In light of the recent proliferation and co-presence of institutional and makeshift camps and encampments in Europe, this article explores the current multifaceted geographies of the camp and their formal and informal spatialities. By engaging with key work in 'camp studies' we analyse contemporary institutional and makeshift refugee camps in their complex relationship. While the review of the existing literature is a fundamental starting point f…
Mobile Colonial Architecture
Grounded in space yet facilitated by mobility, settler colonialism has adopted distinct architectural devices. Tents, prefabricated shelters, mobile homes, shipping containers, and other portable structures, have created the scaffoldings of new colonial settlements, allowing for rapid territorial expansion. These mobile spatial objects have also served as instruments of expulsion and expropriation, facilitating the creation of spaces of counterin…
Borderzone Departure Cities
The increasing fortification of borders produces new urban forms of irregular migration. This paper invokes the concept of “borderzone departure cities” as urban constellations created where global migration routes meet blocked borders in cities which become jumping‐off points from which migrants try to depart. The paper examines Athens and Calais as borderzone departure cities located at both sides of the EU Schengen area. By focussing on the At…
Mobilities and Ethnic Studies
Following the publication of a 2022 special issue in the journal Mobilities, several of the contributing authors and editors gathered virtually on July 26, 2022. Drawing upon the work included w the collection called "Mobilizing Indigeneity and Race Within and Against Settler Colonialism," the participants discuss how they came to the subject of mobilities, how this concept impacts their work, and the ways it intersects with the fields of Ethnic …
Phantom Inhabitation
The French port city of Calais has increasingly become uninhabitable for migrants. While their presence in the city center has been criminalized, the encampments on its outskirts are routinely, violently demolished. These uninhabitable and erased spaces, this paper argues, form traumatic and dehumanizing environments which haunt both the migrants and the city. Migrants, however, find ways to cope with these haunting spaces by creating artwork in …
Climate change resettlement and inhabitation
Climate change is an inherently human-made phenomenon that shapes the mobilities of species and things who, in turn, influence the ways climate change is experienced by humans. These multifaceted climate mobilities are grounded in the spatial histories of imperialism and settler-colonialism, and the legacies of socio-cultural injustice inflicted upon the Global South. Central to climate mobilities is climate change resettlement, which, because it…
Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Mobilities (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Law (3 works)