TY - GEN
T1 - Placemaking as a Tool of Social Sustainability
T2 - 8th Zero Energy Mass Custom Home International Conference, ZEMCH 2021
AU - Hasan, Dana
AU - Bleibleh, Sahera
N1 - Funding Information:
The fieldwork has been approved and cleared by Eastern Mediterranean University Human Subjects Review Board (IRB).
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© 2021 by the authors. Submitted for possible open access publication under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Under spatially oppressed contexts, quality of life becomes a privilege where life is barely guaranteed. Despite several studies discussing the aftermath of wars and military violence on the community's wellbeing and psychological health, the ongoing impact of any spatial violence remains unfolding. Exclusive of embedded human consequences, colonial power destructs physical and social spaces to strip people's sense of ownership, agency, and place. This research is exploring placemaking as a tool of social sustainability that people utilize to resist the ongoing spatial violence. Focusing on occupied Palestine context, this paper discusses the Israeli-built Segregation Wall as an urban violence performed to obstruct normality of Palestinian everyday life. As such, Palestinian graffiti movement expressed on the wall is explored as a creative practice of placemaking intended to resist the status quo and reclaim agency, restore their meaning of place, and achieve communal wellbeing. Based on the dynamics of everyday life expressed through ethnographic interviews, this paper concludes that graffiti on the Segregation Wall is an inseparable tactic of the Palestinian nonviolent resistance strategy and of their overall Sumood against the Israeli occupation. Doing so, this paper contributes to the overall understanding of the interrelations between theories of resistance, placemaking, and social sustainability.
AB - Under spatially oppressed contexts, quality of life becomes a privilege where life is barely guaranteed. Despite several studies discussing the aftermath of wars and military violence on the community's wellbeing and psychological health, the ongoing impact of any spatial violence remains unfolding. Exclusive of embedded human consequences, colonial power destructs physical and social spaces to strip people's sense of ownership, agency, and place. This research is exploring placemaking as a tool of social sustainability that people utilize to resist the ongoing spatial violence. Focusing on occupied Palestine context, this paper discusses the Israeli-built Segregation Wall as an urban violence performed to obstruct normality of Palestinian everyday life. As such, Palestinian graffiti movement expressed on the wall is explored as a creative practice of placemaking intended to resist the status quo and reclaim agency, restore their meaning of place, and achieve communal wellbeing. Based on the dynamics of everyday life expressed through ethnographic interviews, this paper concludes that graffiti on the Segregation Wall is an inseparable tactic of the Palestinian nonviolent resistance strategy and of their overall Sumood against the Israeli occupation. Doing so, this paper contributes to the overall understanding of the interrelations between theories of resistance, placemaking, and social sustainability.
KW - Agency
KW - Graffiti
KW - Palestine
KW - Placemaking
KW - Resistance
KW - Social sustainability
KW - Wellbeing
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85125786544
T3 - ZEMCH International Conference
SP - 674
EP - 682
BT - ZEMCH 2021 - 8th Zero Energy Mass Custom Home International Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Tabet Aoul, Kheira Anissa
A2 - Shafiq, Mohammed Tariq
A2 - Attoye, Daniel Efurosibina
PB - ZEMCH Network
Y2 - 26 October 2021 through 28 October 2021
ER -
