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Firing up the resistance: Sherena Razek, ‘Fire as Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2024

15Nov24

Abstract: In August 2021, wildfires erupted in the southwestern hills of Jerusalem, engulfing and ultimately destroying up to 20,000 dunums of pine forests planted by Israeli settlers. The burned landscape revealed a stunning vista of terraced hillsides, a visual testament to the existence of Palestinian land-based relations hidden under the camouflaging foliage. In this experimental visual essay, fire is postulated as an elemental force of Indigenous Palestinian resistance to the ongoing conditions of environmental and human Nakba imposed on Palestinian lands and bodies under Zionist settler colonialism. Fire, as a transformative and atmosphere-altering medium, is thus theorized and visualized as elemental intifada.

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  • Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the past as a thing of the present. Settlers 'come to stay': they are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity.
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    • Relationality against settler colonialism: Melissa Kennedy, Erin O’Donnell (eds), People, Place and Nature in Indigenous-Settler Relations: Recentring the More-than-Human World, Springer, 2026
    • Settler colonialism in French: Caterina Bandini, Marion Lecoquierre (eds), Le colonialisme de peuplement: applications empiriques et approches critiques, Special Issue of Revue internationale de politique comparée, 2, 31, 2024
    • Canoeing through settler colonialism: Brandon Pludwinski, ‘Postcolonial im/mobilities Youth summer camp canoe travel in Algonquin Provincial Park’, in Dominic Lapointe, Michela Stinson, Meghan Muldoon, Bryan Grimwood (eds), Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism, Routledge, 2026
    • The grief of settler colonialism: Karen Lawford, Holly McKenzie, ‘Reproductive (In)Justice Work: Witnessing Grief and Seeking Joy’, in Darcy L. Harris, Tashel C. Bordere, Lisa McLean (eds), Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief, Routledge, 2026
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