Relying on a state of the art and on his ethnographic research, Cédric Parizot has identified three ways of apprehending the Israeli and Palestinians spaces: those embedded in the national and territorial imaginary; those inspired by the visual model of the network; and, finally, those taking into consideration the image of the meshwork. This seminar will show how each of them organise our experience of the connections between Israeli and Palestinian spaces, frame our questioning and shape our political understanding of these spaces and their populations.

About the Speaker

Cédric Parizot is a researcher in anthropology of politics at the Institute of Research and Studies of the Arab and Muslim Worlds (UMR7310, French National Center for Scientific Research/Aix Marseille University). He received his PhD in 2001 from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) which focused on the electoral processes among the Negev Bedouins. Since then, he has reoriented his research towards mobility and bordering mechanisms in the Israeli-Palestinian spaces. In 2011, he launched the antiAtlas of Borders, a programme bridging research and artistic creation in order to study in a unique way the mutations of borders and spaces in our contemporaneous societies. He sees the integration of artistic creation and digital technologies into his ethnography as a way to reappraise critically his own research practice.

In 2016, he created the antiAtlas Journal, a digital, bilingual and free access journal that opens an exploratory editorial space dedicated to a radical transdisciplinary approach to contemporary borders. Some of his most recent publications include Viscous Spatialities: The Spaces of the Israeli Permit Regime of Access and Movement (South Atlantic Quarterly vol.117, 2018); Border Fictions, antiAtlas Journal#2, Winter 2017 (in press) (co-edited with Anne Laure Amilhat Szary and  Jean Cristofol); and Israël Palestine, l'illusion de la séparation, Marseille, PUP, 2017 (co-edited with Stéphanie Latte Abdallah).
 

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Image : Anna Guilló, Découpe, 2017. Dessin mural, dimensions variables