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The Exhausted

Samir Harb and Emilio Distretti

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Al-Makhrour Valley, near Beit Jala town, is bordered by the Israeli separation wall and a settler-only road, Beit Jala 2010. Photo by Samir Harb.
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December 2025










Notes
1

Dorota Golańska, “Slowness as Warfare: Towards a Relational Approach to Political Violence in the West Bank,” Geography Compass 17, no. 11 (2023): e12725.

2

Nik Heynen et al., eds., In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism (London: Routledge, 2006).

3

Samir Harb, “Exhausted Circulation: The Limits to Cement Transportation and Urban Metabolism in the West Bank,” Journal of Palestine Studies 51, no. 4 (2022): 45–67.

4

Hubert Murray, “Landscape as Resistance in the West Bank,” Places Journal (June 2021), .

5

Mechanical Engineer from Battir (anonymized), interview by Samir Harb, Battir, June 19, 2008.

6

“Israel Approves New Illegal Settlement on UNESCO Site Near Bethlehem,” Al Jazeera, August 15, 2023, .

7

Frantz Fanon, “Trait d’union” in Alienation and Freedom, ed. and comp. Khalfa et al. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

8

See Alessandra Gola et al.,“The Recovery of Historical Paths for Tourism as Tool for Social and Territorial Development: The Palestinian Case of Battir,” Almatourism - Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development 1, no. 1 (2010): 60–66.

9

Samir Harb, personal field notes, Battir, 2010.

10

JSC Road Engineer from Battir (anonymized), phone interview by Samir Harb, May 19, 2025.

11

Adam Hanieh, “Stone, Labor, and the Building of Israel,” Journal of Palestine Studies 49, no. 2 (Winter 2020).

12

Owner of Sama Battir Restaurant and Chalets, interview by Samir Harb, Battir, June 22, 2022.

13

Nasser Abourahme, “In Tune with Their Time,” Radical Philosophy 2.16 (Summer 2024): 18.

14

Gaza Poets Society (@gazapoets), untitled image post, February 4, 2024, .







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