Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Mark GriffithsORCiD
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This article critically examines thanato-geographies of Palestine-Israel and Palestinians and the crucial question of the possibility of politics in the context of sovereign exception. The main argument of the article is that bare life as referent for Palestinians’ lives overstates the subject-making capacities of the sovereign and understates the possibilities of political agency. As a response, the discussion turns to two prominent examples of exception – Israeli checkpoints and the Gaza borderlands – with the aim to keep in sharp focus both the thanatopolitical and that which – whether as complement or counter – exceeds it. Two important correctives arise from such an approach: thanatopolitical formations are i) dependent on broader thanato-geographies of capitalism; and ii) countered by the political agency of those figured as bare life.
Author(s): Griffiths M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
Year: 2022
Volume: 40
Issue: 8
Pages: 1643-1658
Print publication date: 01/12/2022
Online publication date: 01/06/2022
Acceptance date: 20/04/2022
Date deposited: 26/04/2022
ISSN (print): 2399-6544
ISSN (electronic): 2399-6552
Publisher: Sage
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544221099461
DOI: 10.1177/23996544221099461
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric
