Omar Jabary Salamanca
Biographic Data
| ID | 644674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omar Jabary Salamanca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omar Jabary |
| FAMILY NAME | Salamanca |
| SIGNATURE | SALAMANCA O J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6049-2789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Laboring Liberation: The Jerusalem Electricity Company Workers’ Strike of 1979
This essay examines the overlooked 1979 strike by Palestinian workers at the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JEDC) as a pivotal moment of anti-colonial resistance. It argues that the strike, which fused demands for better wages with a political struggle against Israel’s erosion of the company’s concession and autonomy, demonstrates the inextricable link between class and national liberation. By mobilizing broad popular solidarity to defen…
Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity
This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and transnational complicity. As homes, hospitals, and schools are reduced to rubble, this destruction is not only military, but infrastructural – an assault on the material conditions of Palestinian life. Infrastructure emerges here not as background, but as …
In the Excess of Splintering Urbanism: The Racialized Political Economy of Infrastructure
This intervention discusses the relevance of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in the study of splintering urbanism, as an uneven socio-spatial process that simultaneously produces dispossession and racial differentiation. Reflecting on our work in Palestine and South Africa we grapple with what leaks in processes of splintering urbanism and we propose “excess” as a provisional analytical space to focus on the racialized political economi…
Thinking against the sovereignty of the concept: A conversation with Timothy Mitchell
What does a notion of capitalization do to our understandings of late capitalism and the city? What can our renewed interest in materiality add to postcolonial thought and the study of colonial history? And how do we parse through the wreckage of our age of revolts? When we find the political grammar that might respond to our present, what will we make of the square and occupations, or disruption and infrastructure in our theories of political ac…
Assembling the Fabric of Life: When Settler Colonialism Becomes Development
This article brings attention to the political geography of settler colonialism and the ways in which the Palestinian built environment materializes in space, consolidating uneven and racialized landscapes. It argues that settler-colonial space is intimately related to the building of infrastructures structured by development and humanitarian practices. More specifically, the discussion explores how roadscapes are materially and symbolically cons…
Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine
2012). Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine. Settler Colonial Studies: Vol. 2, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine, pp. 1-8
Unplug and Play: Manufacturing Collapse in Gaza
This article examines how colonial violence has been recast in light of Israel's disengagement from Gaza during the summer 2005. By looking at infrastructural networks —the systems that distribute water, electricity, sewage, fuel etc—it explores how far from ending the occupation, disengagement provided a distinct spatial scale from which to experiment new methods of control and repression. In particular, it seeks to expose how these life support…
Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine
2012). Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine. Settler Colonial Studies: Vol. 2, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine, pp. 1-8
Assembling the Fabric of Life: When Settler Colonialism Becomes Development
This article brings attention to the political geography of settler colonialism and the ways in which the Palestinian built environment materializes in space, consolidating uneven and racialized landscapes. It argues that settler-colonial space is intimately related to the building of infrastructures structured by development and humanitarian practices. More specifically, the discussion explores how roadscapes are materially and symbolically cons…
Unplug and Play: Manufacturing Collapse in Gaza
This article examines how colonial violence has been recast in light of Israel's disengagement from Gaza during the summer 2005. By looking at infrastructural networks —the systems that distribute water, electricity, sewage, fuel etc—it explores how far from ending the occupation, disengagement provided a distinct spatial scale from which to experiment new methods of control and repression. In particular, it seeks to expose how these life support…
Thinking against the sovereignty of the concept: A conversation with Timothy Mitchell
What does a notion of capitalization do to our understandings of late capitalism and the city? What can our renewed interest in materiality add to postcolonial thought and the study of colonial history? And how do we parse through the wreckage of our age of revolts? When we find the political grammar that might respond to our present, what will we make of the square and occupations, or disruption and infrastructure in our theories of political ac…
Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity
This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and transnational complicity. As homes, hospitals, and schools are reduced to rubble, this destruction is not only military, but infrastructural – an assault on the material conditions of Palestinian life. Infrastructure emerges here not as background, but as …
Unplug and Play: Manufacturing Collapse in Gaza
This article examines how colonial violence has been recast in light of Israel's disengagement from Gaza during the summer 2005. By looking at infrastructural networks —the systems that distribute water, electricity, sewage, fuel etc—it explores how far from ending the occupation, disengagement provided a distinct spatial scale from which to experiment new methods of control and repression. In particular, it seeks to expose how these life support…
Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine
2012). Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine. Settler Colonial Studies: Vol. 2, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine, pp. 1-8
Thinking against the sovereignty of the concept: A conversation with Timothy Mitchell
What does a notion of capitalization do to our understandings of late capitalism and the city? What can our renewed interest in materiality add to postcolonial thought and the study of colonial history? And how do we parse through the wreckage of our age of revolts? When we find the political grammar that might respond to our present, what will we make of the square and occupations, or disruption and infrastructure in our theories of political ac…
Assembling the Fabric of Life: When Settler Colonialism Becomes Development
This article brings attention to the political geography of settler colonialism and the ways in which the Palestinian built environment materializes in space, consolidating uneven and racialized landscapes. It argues that settler-colonial space is intimately related to the building of infrastructures structured by development and humanitarian practices. More specifically, the discussion explores how roadscapes are materially and symbolically cons…
In the Excess of Splintering Urbanism: The Racialized Political Economy of Infrastructure
This intervention discusses the relevance of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in the study of splintering urbanism, as an uneven socio-spatial process that simultaneously produces dispossession and racial differentiation. Reflecting on our work in Palestine and South Africa we grapple with what leaks in processes of splintering urbanism and we propose “excess” as a provisional analytical space to focus on the racialized political economi…
Laboring Liberation: The Jerusalem Electricity Company Workers’ Strike of 1979
This essay examines the overlooked 1979 strike by Palestinian workers at the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JEDC) as a pivotal moment of anti-colonial resistance. It argues that the strike, which fused demands for better wages with a political struggle against Israel’s erosion of the company’s concession and autonomy, demonstrates the inextricable link between class and national liberation. By mobilizing broad popular solidarity to defen…
Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity
This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and transnational complicity. As homes, hospitals, and schools are reduced to rubble, this destruction is not only military, but infrastructural – an assault on the material conditions of Palestinian life. Infrastructure emerges here not as background, but as …
Politics (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)