Abstract
Colonial and settler colonial dispossession is performed through various forms of violence, justified by cultural, historical, religious and national imperatives. In this paper, I define one of these forms of violence as the occupation of the senses, referring to the sensory technologies that manage bodies, language, sight, time and space in the colony. This paper analyses the parades, marches and festivals performed in the Palestinian city space of occupied East Jerusalem; shares the slogans, chants and graffiti used by Israeli civil, religious and nationalist entities; and explores what is lived, seen, heard, felt and smelled by the colonized to uncover the political violence implicated in the occupation of the senses.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1279-1300 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | British Journal of Criminology |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Nov 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and Mada al-Carmel—Arab Center for Applied Social Research.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2016.
Keywords
- Aesthetics
- East Jerusalem
- Occupation
- Palestinians
- Senses