The affective politics of precarity: home demolitions in occupied Palestine

Joronen, Mikko and Griffiths, Mark (2019) The affective politics of precarity: home demolitions in occupied Palestine. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37 (3). pp. 561-576. ISSN 1472-3433

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Abstract

In this article we discuss the precarities induced by the threat of home demolitions in occupied Palestine. Drawing on fieldwork from four separate sites, the discussion begins by showing how the threat of demolition exposes Palestinians to a powerfully affective future of a violence that will arrive at an uncertain time. From this we develop the notion of ‘affectual demolition’ to describe how the anticipatory affective dimensions of demolition structure the present and the ways that precarities are embodied in Palestinian communities living under the threat of demolition. The discussion then moves on to further consider how anticipatory affects relate to different practices, including ways of acting on and against induced vulnerabilities and insecurities. We thus argue that the continued threat of home demolitions evokes precarities that are (politically) induced and (ontologically) productive and that they hold significant world-making and -annulling capacities. We thus argue that the continued threat of home demolitions evokes precarities that are (politically) produced and (ontologically) productive and that they hold significant world-making and -annulling capacities.

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