Baumann, H;
(2018)
The intimacy of infrastructure: vulnerability and abjection in Palestinian Jerusalem through the work of Khaled Jarrar.
In: Boehmer, E and Davies, D, (eds.)
Planned Violence: Post/colonial Urban Infrastructures and Literature.
(pp. 137-157).
Palgrave Mcmillan: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Colonial infrastructures can serve to appropriate territory, but they just as often exclude populations from access to resources. While the disruption of urban utility lines has been examined as a strategic aspect of warfare and planning, this chapter highlights the intimate manners in which infrastructural violence is experienced by Palestinians in and around Jerusalem. Using the work of Palestinian visual artist Khaled Jarrar, as well as findings from on-site research, it highlights the embodied and affective impact of violent infrastructures, focusing in particular on the Israeli Separation Wall. Where most accounts view the role of infrastructure in Israel/Palestine in terms of geopolitics or military strategy, the chapter shows how cultural engagements with their personal, embodied, and symbolic effects can help us understand infrastructural violence better. We find in these intimate effects an integral aspect of how this planned violence operates.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The intimacy of infrastructure: vulnerability and abjection in Palestinian Jerusalem through the work of Khaled Jarrar |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-91388-9_8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91388-9_8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10088351 |
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