The talk is titled “Spatial debilities: Slow life and and carceral capitalism in Palestine,” and is scheduled for Tuesday April 3rd from 4:30 to 6:10 pm in Washington 3 of the Marriott Hotel (Exhibition level). Lisa Bhungalia and Treva Ellison will act as respondents, and here is the abstract:
“There has been much written on the forms of control enacted in the splintering occupation of Palestine, in particular regarding mobility, identity, and spatiality, yet this vast scholarship has presumed the prominence of the abled-body that is hindered through the infrastructures of occupation. In this lecture I examine the splintering occupation in relation to disability and the spatial distribution of debilitation, highlighting the logistics of border crossings and movement in the West Bank in relation to disability rights frameworks. I argue two things: one, that the creation of what Celeste Langan terms "mobility disabilities" through both corporeal assault and infrastructural and bureaucratic means are not only central to the calculus of the occupation, but importantly, linked logics of debilitation; and two, that these calibrations of various types of movement are forms of carceral containment and enclosure that render specific stretchings of space and time, what we could call slow life.”
