Story-dwelling as commitment to Lubna Ahmad Abu Sitta’s writing against erasure in Palestine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23312219 |
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| Authors | Nicole Printy Currie (0009-0006-8292-761X, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning C Politics and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2399-6544 • E-ISSN: 2399-6552 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/23996544261466047 |
| OpenAlex | W7170894176 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Lubna Ahmad Abu Sitta’s (2026) article weaves together snippets of a Palestinian geography department through a focus on the work and lives of its teachers and students – Professor Abdel Nasser Al-Saqqa, Dr Wiesam Essa and Shahd – and the embodied everyday living amidst the Israeli and Western backed-manufactured genocide in Gaza. Through a more than story-telling practice, Abu Sitta stories the immense loss and conjures the co-constitutive relation between Palestine and Palestinians. As a fellow postgraduate researcher, I find Abu Sitta’s piece offering timely reflection on the purpose of scholarship in our contemporary moment; what it means to write with Gaza and Palestine; and where our accountabilities as researchers lie, and, crucially, how those accountabilities can be meaningfully enacted. It is Abu Sitta’s insistence on presence, I argue, that necessitates story-dwelling as an ethical and methodological response to Palestinian life-making geographies. To story-dwell requires engagement with the spatial and temporal resistance of story-telling and memory in Palestine, and how martyrs and their enduring presence are woven into collective life.
Erasure · Government (linguistics) · Islam · Palestine · Power (physics) · Belt and Road Initiative · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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