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Geopolitics and family in Palestine

Harker, C.

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C. Harker



Abstract

This paper questions Geographers ability to think about power and violence through different epistemological registers, specifically by examining the discursive production of Palestine as place in geopolitical studies. Although the banner of geopolitics groups together a variety of approaches, these studies more or less cohere around a very particular type of imaginative geography of place – as violent and Political. Recent arguments for cosmopolitan approaches to place – particularly when encountering non-Euro/American sites – are used to argue for more diverse approaches to places such as Palestine within Anglophone geographical scholarship. Using research on Palestinian family spaces and spacings, an alternative approach is outlined that exposes some geographies of dealing with and getting by the Israeli Occupation that are largely ignored by geopolitical approaches. These tropes prompt a return, in the conclusion, to the question of how geographers analytically apprehend power and violence, and the possibilities for doing this at the limits of, and beyond, the framework of geopolitical analysis.

Citation

Harker, C. (2011). Geopolitics and family in Palestine. Geoforum, 42(3), 306-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.06.007

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jun 1, 2011
Deposit Date Jun 28, 2010
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Geoforum
Print ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 42
Issue 3
Pages 306-315
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.06.007
Keywords Palestine, Family, Geopolitics, Place, Israeli Occupation, Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitanism.
Publisher URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718510000837

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