Lior Volinz: Violent Bureaucracy and the Bureaucracy of Violence: Marginalization and Popular Politics in Jerusalem and Beyond

Description

The burden of bureaucracy is not evenly divided, with marginalized communities disproportionally affected by violent bureaucracy, or fall victims to the consequences of the bureaucracy of violence. In this talk I discuss the bureaucratic world of the pluralized and privatized Israeli security provision in East Jerusalem, and how it is contested, resisted or mitigated by Palestinian residents of the city. Focusing on the Israeli residency revocation policy, I explore how various performative practices and materialities are employed by Palestinian residents to protect their residency and labour rights, while conceptually addressing the popular politics (Chatterjee 2004) involved in these performances against violent bureaucracy. I conclude by addressing the wider implications of bureaucratic structures prying into domestic spaces and the performances that are undertaken by marginalized communities in response.

Period	3 Sept 2021
Held at	University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Degree of Recognition	International