Geographies of Life and Belonging in Palestine: the Practices of Retrieving the Incarcerated Dead

这个研究项目探讨了巴勒斯坦人对抗死亡和囚禁政治的行动和经历。自1967年以来，以色列一直扣留巴勒斯坦人的尸体，并将其埋葬在隐蔽但臭名昭著的“数字墓地”的无标记的乱葬坑中。这种监禁死者的现象是以色列定居者国家长期控制和暴力的一部分。然而，在这一范围内，巴勒斯坦人通过纪念和找回死者的做法，开辟了生命和归属的地理。该项目采用民族志多方法战略，并与基层社区团体、法律的和宣传组织以及巴勒斯坦国家行为体合作，将全面、细致地描述这些对死亡政治的揭露。该项目的总体目标是侧重于巴勒斯坦人的声音、行动和主张，这些声音、行动和主张在广泛和亲密的占领暴力中经常被掩盖和研究不足，就土著人尸体的意义、处理和影响展开辩论，对于促进更广泛地认识定居者殖民主义根深蒂固、亲密和广泛的暴力越来越重要。因此，该项目将以非学术性小册子（阿拉伯文和英文）和在苏格兰和巴勒斯坦举办的小规模展览的形式产生两项创造性产出，面向公众受众并参与更广泛的辩论。这是一项重要而及时的研究，追踪了土著社区在政治暴力背景下培养的日常生活和归属感。

This research project explores the actions and experiences of Palestinians contesting a politics of death and captivity. Since 1967, Israel has withheld and interred Palestinian dead bodies in mass unmarked graves in the covert yet infamous 'cemeteries of numbers'. This phenomenon of incarcerating the dead is part of a long trajectory of control and violence by the Israeli settler state. Within this, however, Palestinians carve out geographies of life and belonging through their practices of memorialising and retrieving the dead. Applying an ethnographic multi-method strategy and engaging with grassroots community groups, legal and advocacy organisations and Palestinian state actors, this project will build a comprehensive and nuanced account of these contestations to the politics of death. The overall aim of the project is to focus on Palestinian voices, actions and claims which are routinely obscured and understudied within the vast and intimate violence of occupation.Opening up debates on the meaning, treatment and impact of indigenous dead bodies is increasingly relevant for fostering recognition of the deep-rooted, intimate and vast violence of settler colonialism more broadly. As such, this project will produce two creative outputs in the form of a non-academic booklet (in Arabic and English) and small-scale exhibition in Scotland and Palestine, reaching public audiences and engaging with wider debates. This is an important and timely study tracing the everyday geographies of life and belonging cultivated by indigenous communities within contexts of political violence.