Society and Space mourns all those who have lost their lives in Palestine and Israel. We recognize the deep and uneven distress caused by the horrid events in Palestine and Israel especially since October 7, 2023, as well as the profound challenges involved for scholars in navigating these inherently political - and for many, existential – questions.
We share the concern expressed by 800 scholars of international law and genocide whose public statement warns “of the possibility of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” and unequivocally support Birzeit University’s call for international academic institutions “to take concrete action to stop the genocidal war on the Palestinian people and to end Israeli settler colonialism.”
In modest answer to this call, we here offer a selection of critical work on Palestine-Israel in the Environment and Planning D: Society and Space journal and the Society and Space Magazine. The interview with Edward Said from 2003, as well as all of the essays, journal articles and book reviews from the last ten years listed below are free to access for one year.
Interview
Cindi Katz and Neil Smith (2003) An interview with Edward Said
Essays
Noam Leshem, Jen Bagelman (2023) Unsettling ‘the settler’
Andy Clarno (2022) Infrastructures of Imperial Policing
Taylor Miller (2021) Active, Still, Reclamation
Connie Yang (2018) Detouring the Occupation: Jerusalem and the Infrastructure of Unseeing
Sabrien Amrov (2017) Homes as Infrastructures of Intimacy
Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini (2015) Human Shielding and Urban Warfare in Israel/Palestine
Laleh Khalili (2014) A Habit of Destruction
Nadim Khoury (2014) Receding Chronology, Fragmented Narratives
Mat Coleman and Mary Thomas (2014) On the Civilian in Gaza: An interview with Walaa Alqaisiya and Lisa Bhungalia
Anat Ben-David, Ephraim Lavie (2013) Palestine and the Google Empire
Journal Articles
Wassim Ghantous, Mikko Joronen (2022) Dromoelimination: Accelerating settler colonialism in Palestine
Fredrik Meiton (2022) On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (2021) The right to an urban history: The Gaza Master Plan, 1975–1982
Rafi Grosglik, Ariel Handel, Daniel Monterescu (2021) Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine
Joseph F Getzoff (2020) Start-up nationalism: The rationalities of neoliberal Zionism
Mikko Joronen, Mark Griffiths (2019) The affective politics of precarity: Home demolitions in occupied Palestine
Christopher Harker (2017) Debt space: Topologies, ecologies and Ramallah, Palestine
Mikko Joronen (2017) Spaces of waiting: Politics of precarious recognition in the occupied West Bank
Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini (2016) The politics of human shielding: On the resignification of space and the constitution of civilians as shields in liberal wars
Noam Leshem (2013) Repopulating the Emptiness: A Spatial Critique of Ruination in Israel/Palestine
Merav Amir (2013) The Making of a Void Sovereignty: Political Implications of the Military Checkpoints in the West Bank
Book Reviews
Gaja Maestri (2023) Review of The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz
Tina Guirguis (2022) Review of Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Stepha Velednitsky (2019) Review of Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994 by Andy Clarno
Emily R. Douglas (2018) Review of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar
Ariel Handel (2018) Review of Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank by Yael Berda
Kareem Rabie (2016) Review of Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography by Haim Yacobi
Lisa Bhungalia (2014) Review of Parting Ways by Judith Butler
Nadim Khoury (2013) Review of Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West by Rachel Beckles Willson
Stuart Elden (2013) Review of Trans-colonial Urban Space in Palestine by Maha Samman
