יום ב' ,   21.3.05,   18:00 - 20:00
חדר 496 בנין גילמן

אריאל הנדל - מכון כהן, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב

"על גבולות הדיסציפלינות המרחביות: השטחים הכבושים כמקרה מבחן"

It seems that we are getting closer to a day in which talking about "Palestinian Territories" in the manner we talk normally about space would become senseless. In an always-increasing process – and especially since September 2000 – the Palestinians are uprooted from their land, enclosed and secluded. The Palestinian space – as I will attempt to show – becomes homogenous, immobile and frozen. It becomes porous and transparent for the military forces – while opaque and imprison for the Palestinians. The lecture would pass between several spaces: from the lowest resolution, in which I would claim that one cannot talk, at least not in the way these disciplines define themselves now, about geography and architecture in the Occupied Territories – and down to the very body's space which becomes penetrable and unstable due to the searches and the extra-judicial assassinations. In the Occupied Territories the differences between private and public space, inside and outside, and all the variation that allows us using or exploring the space, is gone. The lecture would deal mainly with the Palestinian side, but I will show that none of the other actors in the Occupied Territories, namely the army and the settlers, lives or experiences the actual space either. The spatial analysis will allow us to understand better the modality and the logic of the occupation - as well as to see why is it so hard to know "what is really going on" in the Occupied Territories.