Fires that Light the Way
On Witnessing Occupied Palestine—and Beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19214960 |
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| Authors | Perry Mendoza (University of Turku, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue | 552 |
| Pages | 197-203 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/15351882.139.552.07 |
| OpenAlex | W7161299859 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This paper investigates the situations unveiled symbolically by the wildfires in Jerusalem (Al-Quds). It considers the ongoing situation in Palestine as a complex of events that reveals various forms of settler colonialism, from their entanglements with archaeology, to their impositions on the flora and fauna of Gaza, taking the wildfires as a point of departure for a metaphorical contemplation on two possibilities: the possibility of hope and the possibility of political change that gives the fields both of Palestine and folkloristics a more optimistic future
Contemplation · Ethnography · Folkloristics · Palestine · Point (geometry) · Politics · Wildness · Agricultural and Environmental Management · Belt and Road Initiative · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
The Arab village
Contested Zionism -- Alternative Modernism
Colonialist and Decolonial Metaphors
Imagining Palestinian Archaeologies
Architecture, Orientalism and Identity
Fire as Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine
Planning, Land Ownership, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine
An Immoral Dilemma
Genocide in Gaza and the End of Settler Colonialism
Religious-Zionist Right-Wing Israelis
Slavery is a Metaphor
Oppressive pines
When does a native become a settler? (With apologies to Zreik and Mamdani)
| Highly cited | No |
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