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Spatial–temporal folds in Gaza and the West Bank: Palestinian perspectives on settler-colonial logics

Nik Hynek, Levon Ter-Ghazaryan

Territory Politics Governance | Aug 28, 2026

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Current trusteeship-style proposals for Gaza and accelerated annexation-by-regulation in the West Bank demand an integrated analysis of Palestine. Drawing on Palestinian settler-colonial scholarship and 44 interviews, this article develops the spatial–temporal ‘fold’ as a decolonial geographical heuristic for reading Gaza and the West Bank together. It argues that Gaza’s near-total enclosure and the West Bank’s internally fragmented, asymmetrically permeable space are differentiated folds of a single Israeli settler-colonial formation. Each reorganises mobility, infrastructure, knowledge and political possibility while preserving the structural aim of eliminating Palestinian self-determination and presence. The article advances a grounded Palestinian-centred analytic of enclosure, survival and hope.

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Nik Hynek

first | Metropolitan University Prague | ORCID 0000-0002-4801-5012

Levon Ter-Ghazaryan

last | Metropolitan University Prague | ORCID 0009-0004-3884-1849

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@article{Hynek2026Spatial,
  title = {Spatial–temporal folds in Gaza and the West Bank: Palestinian perspectives on settler-colonial logics},
  author = {Nik Hynek and Levon Ter-Ghazaryan},
  journal = {Territory Politics Governance},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1080/21622671.2026.2716249},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2026.2716249}
}

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