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This article examines the production of mobility obstacles and restrictions in Palestine, highlighting dimensions of the logistics of border crossings and movement in the West Bank in relation to disability rights frameworks. It argues two things: that the creation of what Celeste Langan calls “mobility disabilities” through corporeal assault as well as infrastructural and bureaucratic means is not only central to the calculus of the occupation but also, importantly, linked logics of debilitation; and that these calibrations of various types of movement render specific stretchings of space and time, what is here called “slow life.”
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Repressive and debilitating technologies and ideologies employed to circumvent adequate schooling for Palestinian children are not merely events from a time past; they are characteristic of broader endless colonial patterns of violent deliberate acts denying Gazan and other Palestinian children the affordances of Westernized liberal childhood, constituting them as nonchildren or 'incarcerated chil
“Notably, the repressive and debilitating technologies and ideologies employed to circumvent adequate schooling conditions for Palestinian children are not merely events from a time past (Puar, 2021). Rather, it is characteristic of broader endless colonial patterns of violent deliberate acts powerfully denying Gazan and other Palestinian children the affordances procured by Westernized liberal”
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- Authors
- Puar, J. K.
- Corresponding author
- Puar, Jasbir K.
- ORCID
- Puar, Jasbir K.
- Venue
- South Atlantic Quarterly
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2021-04-01
- Volume
- 120
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 393-414
- ISSN
- 0038-2876 (ISSN-L)
- 1527-8026
- OpenAlex
- W3164698786
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 11.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- South Atlantic Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disability Rights and Representation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Keywords
- mobility impairment, disability rights, West Bank, Israeli occupation, border crossing, mobility restrictions, administrative barriers, debilitation, slow living, time and space
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