'When you come to Ariel, you come to serenity': Affect, Aesthetics and Normalisation of Colonial Domination in Israeli Settlements

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=HyTaPeaxld" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=HyTaPeaxld</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2171866" target="_blank" >10.1080/14650045.2023.2171866</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

'When you come to Ariel, you come to serenity': Affect, Aesthetics and Normalisation of Colonial Domination in Israeli Settlements

Original language description

This paper discusses the normalisation of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on the part of their inhabitants. Focusing on the so-called &apos;non-ideological&apos; settlements that evolved from ideological outposts into middle-class suburbs over the last three decades, this study engages spatial politics in Israel/Palestine in general, and the transformations of the settlement project in particular. Based on ethnographic research in the region, I argue that the acceptance and normalisation of the settlements among Israelis is closely related to their affective and aesthetic experiences. I focus on the co-production of space/territory, affect and aesthetics to show how physical transformations of the settlements since their establishment have turned many of these key nodes of the Israeli occupational apparatus into family-friendly communities, thus erasing the violence of the Israeli control over the Palestinians from settlers&apos; lives. I further demonstrate that these notions are not disrupted even by one of the most prominent symbols and technologies of the occupation, the fence/wall. This study thus contributes to understanding of how the interplay of spatial, territorial, aesthetic and affective practices works to normalise colonial conquest and domination by making their manifestations seemingly natural and even appealing on the part of the privileged segments of the society.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geopolitics

ISSN

1465-0045

e-ISSN

1557-3028

Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

552-580

UT code for WoS article

000937806700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85148529079