Epistemic stakes in the spatial politics of Palestine

Qaddumi, Dena ORCID: 0000-0003-1144-8460 (2025) Epistemic stakes in the spatial politics of Palestine. Middle East Centre Blog (28 Oct 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Since early 2024, I have been coordinating the open-access curriculum Palestine: Spaces and Politics. The project emerged through an intensive dialogical process between academics engaged in the Arab Urbanism platform. Despite varied disciplinary approaches, we shared a research interest in postcolonial spatial politics. Particularly, we were concerned that growing demand for critical analysis on Palestine’s built and natural environments was largely consumed by settler colonial perspectives rooted in ethnic separation, border-making, indigenous dispossession, and land commodification. As significant as these analyses are, they do not clarify the multiplicity of Palestine and Palestinians, nor respond to research concerns and needs produced through internal critique.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Middle East Centre
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2025 13:36
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2025 13:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130206

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