The occupation of the senses: the prosthetic and aesthetic of state terror

Colonial and settler colonial dispossession is performed through various forms of violence, justified by cultural, historical, religious and national imperatives. In this paper, I define one of these forms of violence as the occupation of the senses, referring to the sensory technologies that manage...

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Main Author: Šalhūb-Kīfūrkiyān, Nādira (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 57, Issue: 6, Pages: 1279 –1300
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Keywords:
Aesthetics
Besatzung
Besetzung
East Jerusalem
Occupation
Palestinians
Palästina
Senses
Staatsterrorismus
State terror
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Summary:Colonial and settler colonial dispossession is performed through various forms of violence, justified by cultural, historical, religious and national imperatives. In this paper, I define one of these forms of violence as the occupation of the senses, referring to the sensory technologies that manage bodies, language, sight, time and space in the colony. This paper analyses the parades, marches and festivals performed in the Palestinian city space of occupied East Jerusalem; shares the slogans, chants and graffiti used by Israeli civil, religious and nationalist entities; and explores what is lived, seen, heard, felt and smelled by the colonized to uncover the political violence implicated in the occupation of the senses.
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azw066