Israel has imposed different forms of settler colonialism across the map of historic Palestine, but nothing can be taken for granted. The refugee camp is itself a spatialization of a political demand, a space of waiting for an eventual return.
Hashem Abushama
Associate Professor of Human Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) at the University of Oxford. He is a human geographer with interests in urban studies, cultural studies, critical development studies and postcolonial geographies. He holds a DPhil in Human Geography from the School of Geography and the Environment and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, and a BA in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College in the United States. His forthcoming monograph looks at settler colonialism, capitalism, dispossession and arts in contemporary Palestine. His writings have appeared in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, The Jerusalem Quarterly, Jadaliyya and Palestine Square. He is the winner of the 2024 Stuart Hall Essay Prize.
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