Emerging geographies of Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance in East Jerusalem

这项博士研究将结合以色列在被占领东耶路撒冷的定居者-殖民空间做法，批判性地调查巴勒斯坦的社会和政治生活。在那里，巴勒斯坦人面临着各种控制和搬迁技术--例如，拆毁房屋、威胁迁出居住地、投机炒房--这些技术由一系列行为者实施：以色列国家、普通公民和定居者非政府组织。在谢赫贾拉和西勒万社区--这两个地区都是过去一年的国际头条新闻，也是这项研究的重点地区--成千上万的巴勒斯坦人每天都面临失去家园的威胁。这是一个处在当代殖民主义前线的地方，需要对殖民空间的形成和破坏进行批判性的地理审查。我将通过档案研究、参与者观察和半结构化访谈来承担这项任务，具体目的是了解东耶路撒冷的生活，了解殖民主义对日常生活的影响，以及出现的激进主义、谈判和抵抗的形式。这将是从这一角度对持续流离失所地点进行此类研究的第一次，因此有可能对政治地理学领域关于权力在殖民时代的作用这一重要主题作出重大贡献。

This doctoral study will critically investigate Palestinian social and political life in the context of Israel's settler-colonial spatial practices in occupied East Jerusalem. There, Palestinians face various techniques of control and removal - e.g., house demolitions, threatened residency removal, real estate speculation - that are implemented by a range of actors: the state of Israel, private citizens and settler NGOs. In the neighbourhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan - both of which have been in the international headlines in the past year, and the areas on which this research is focused - thousands of Palestinians live everyday threatened with the loss of their homes. This is a site on the frontline of contemporary colonialism in need of critical geographical examination in terms of making and unmaking colonial space. I will undertake this task via archival research, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with the specific aim to understand life in East Jerusalem and the ways that colonialism impresses on daily routines and the forms of activism, negotiation and resistance that emerge. This will be the first study of its kind to work on a site of ongoing displacement from this perspective and thus has the potential to make a significant contribution to the field of political geography on the crucial theme of the function of power in the colonial present.