The Doomsday Economy
Colonial Violence, Environmental Catastrophe, and Burning Tires in Palestine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11844174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ido Fuchs (0009-0001-9083-5604, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Issue | 1(51) |
| Pages | 23-50 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Praktyka Teoretyczna (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2081-8130 • E-ISSN: 2081-8130 |
| Publisher | Uniwersytet Wrocławski (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.19195/prt.2024.1.2 |
| OpenAlex | W4394817584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
The article analyzes the Palestinian act of tire burning at the intersection of the following frameworks – colonial violence, racial capitalism, and environmental discourse. The analysis considers the many functions of Palestinian tire burning: capital accumulation, waste management, protestors’ protection, counter-violence, pollution redistribution, and spectacle production. This analysis leads to the argument that Palestinian tire burning takes part in a “Doomsday Economy.” The article promotes the concept of a “Doomsday Economy” as a frame for understanding violence toward Palestinians and the contemporary intent of tire burning. The Doomsday Economy is a violent economic structure that involves two interplaying processes: (a) the positioning of a discursive catastrophe in a deferred future by colonial powers in order to conceal the present violence and production of a daily doomsday for the oppressed; and (b) the oppressed’s acceleration of the future-doomsday’s arrival for all participants of this economy – through pollution and images – introducing doomsday as a present state
Ancient history · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Palestine · Political economy · Political science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear
Writing/righting Palestine studies
Shtetl Colonialism
The slow violence of Israeli settler-colonialism and the political ecology of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception
Cities under siege
Finding a New Idiom
Compounding Vulnerability
Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism
Environmental management in the Gaza Strip
Past is Present
The Right to Maim
Failure to build
Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel
Divergent visions
Bodies that count
Climate change and security in the Israeli-Palestinian context
Israel-Palestine and the Settler Colonial 'Turn
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |