(Ad)dressing belonging in a contested space: Embodied spatial practices of Palestinian and Israeli women in Jerusalem |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 1911 Building, Campus Box 8107, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA;2. Departamento de Ecología Humana, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional-Unidad Mérida, Km 6 antigua carretera a Progreso, Colonia Cordemex, CP 97310, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico;3. Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos, El Colegio de Michoacán, A. C., Cerro de Nahuatzen 85, Fracc. Jardines del Cerro Grande, CP 59300, La Piedad de Cabadas, Michoacán, Mexico;4. Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, 700 W. State Street, Suite 219 West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA;1. Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Building F, Room 4-69, 1050, Brussels, Belgium;2. Department of Politics & International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | The article explores women's clothing choices from a feminist geopolitical lens to comprehend mobility practices and power-relations across the contested city of Jerusalem. Building on 80 interviews with Palestinian and Israeli women, we explore the different ways in which women's clothing choices can be interpreted as a spatial practice that affects urban im/mobilities. First, we demonstrate the different ways through which cultural and religious norms and representations of the body are perceived as both excluding and restricting women from using certain areas in the city. Second, we suggest that clothing practices may enable movement and mobility that potentially undermine social-cultural norms. Thus, women's bodies and clothing can be a political site of difference and resistance that somewhat underscores the insurmountability of boundaries in the contested spaces of Jerusalem. |
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| Keywords: | Mobility Feminist geopolitics Jerusalem Women's clothing Embodied Spatial Practices |
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