הרצאת קולוקוויום - Colonial Development in Conflict: The Resettlement of the Palestinian Refugees

11 באפריל 2022, 12:00 
 
קולוקוויום Colonial Development in Conflict: The Resettlement of the Palestinian Refugees
 
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בנושא :
Colonial Development in Conflict: The Resettlement of the Palestinian Refugees
 
להלן תקציר ההרצאה:
  
Development-in-Conflict sheds new light on the Israeli-Arab national conflict by exploring the conflict in architectural development discourse and representations itself implemented in the Gaza Strip under de facto colonial conditions.  It will rethink the economic and aid development projects and their relation to security and settler colonialism in times of (regional) peace. Treat the Gaza Strip as a group of historical concrete cities, the lecture will focuse on regional processes of modernization and development implemented by Israel from 1982 to the 1993 Oslo Accords. Specifically, the lecture will discuss the theoretical gap in perceiving the refugeesן¿½ resettlement and development practices, expressed through the gap between the epistemology of power and the recognition that power takes form discursively, where discourse and representation of power themselves have materiality. This will highlight the encounters between the enduring legacy of aid as part of colonial economic development and the politics of the Cold War humanitarian aid. These encounters will demonstrate the ways strategies and technologies of pacification practices transformed from the realm of warfare architecture to the cultural realm of architecture. As a representative example, I will discuss the case of Khan-Younis city and its adjacent camp when they still were a featured part of the Israeli rehabilitation projects and were embodied in economic development plan. The architectural ideology of refugeeן¿½s resettlement was influenced by reintegration projects in Algiers and Oran and based on North African colonial Mediterranean architecture. However, these ideologies were detached from the real conditions on the ground under the acceleration of settler colonialism and the massive investment in security mechanisms. Development practices and resettlement of the refugees, as the presentation will reveal, are complex forms of multiple development temporalities and the product of multiple centers of power.
 
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat is Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the architecture department, in Tel-Aviv University. Currently she is establishing her research and research by design Lab of Urban Histories-in-Transition. Abreek-Zubiedat finished her postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for History and Theory at ETH Zurich. She earned a PhD with Outstanding Distinction in 2018 from the Technion-IIT, Haifa. Her research focuses on history, theory and criticism of architecture in colonial contexts, with a focus on cities-in-transition in conflict zones, colonial development discourse, aid and humanitarianism in the developing world, forced movement and its materialization in infrastructures and refugee camps. Her studies have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals (i.e., Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal; Urban History; Environment and Planning D; Citizenship Studies; Rethinking History) and book chapters (i.e., Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice; Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology), and currently she is working on her book with tentative title Architecture in Conflict: The Right to an Urban History of the Gaza Strip (under contract of University of Pittsburgh Press). 
 
 
 
 
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