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Wassim Ghantous

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Political Geographer researching Palestine/Israel and their global extensions. Tampere University, Finalnd.

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Wassim Ghantous@wassim-gh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Danna Masad and I write about how colonial herding outposts in the West Bank appropriate and weaponize indigenous Palestinian pastoral practices and animal bodies to erase and replace Palestinian life and life-worlds. @natureandspace.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2514...

The wandering frontier: Geographies of colonial herding in Palestine - Danna Masad, Wassim Ghantous, 2026

This article examines the emergent phenomenon of Israeli colonial herding outposts in the occupied West Bank, where animals—sheep, goats, cows, and camels—are d...

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Wassim Ghantous@wassim-gh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our paper (with @mikkojorge.bsky.social and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian) on the colonial weaponization of smell, boomeranging, and atmospheric policing through the Israeli invented Skunk Water technology is out at @secdialogue.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sd/advance-a...

Stench atmospheres: policing, affect, and colonial boomeranging in Palestine/Israel

Abstract. The weaponization of smell has sparked a growing interest in the studies of warfare, policing, and the senses. This paper examines one peculiar m

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Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group@gocep.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Essay by group of Gazan scholars, including our Khalid Dader @dader-khalid.bsky.social, problematising framings of Gazan resilience, ingenuity and strenght. Highly recommended read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When Resilience Becomes a Burden: Reflections from Gazan Palestinian Scholars

In this essay, Palestinian scholars from Gaza reflect on how Gaza is brought into Western academic spaces since the beginning of the genocide. Over the last two years, academic engagement with Gaza...

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