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The article examines the affective dynamics of collective survival and resistance under Israeli settler colonialism in the Gaza Strip. It analyses how young Palestinians renegotiated their affective bonds in response to two coinciding deadly events, the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2021 Israeli bombings. Theoretically, we extend the politics of emotions and affect to encompass experiences of settler colonial violence. Drawing on original interviews with Gaza Palestinians, we trace how affective bonds were impacted among families, friends and neighbours and, from a transpersonal perspective, across the political community. We show how settler colonialism shaped responses to the pandemic, deepening existing inequalities, and causing social frictions. The bombings, by contrast, triggered a unified response of pure terror and universal concern for collective survival. The rendering of the home into a target of military violence was countered by practices of physical and emotional togetherness in the face of death. Overall, we argue that in Gaza a) different kinds of mortal dangers are experienced politically, both separately and in conjunction, b) these experiences are conditioned by collective histories of colonial violence, and that c) these experiences are expressions of collective affective life, necessary for the preservation of peoplehood in the face of colonial oppression.
Author(s): Pasquetti S, Repo J, Shoman H
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Political Sociology
Year: 2024
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
Pages: 1-20
Print publication date: 01/09/2024
Online publication date: 24/07/2024
Acceptance date: 25/06/2024
Date deposited: 06/08/2024
ISSN (print): 1749-5679
ISSN (electronic): 1749-5687
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae031
DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae031
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/rcj6-f235
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