Love stories of the occupation: storytelling and the counter‐geopolitics of intimacy

Abstract

Though research on I srael/ P alestine often privileges the macro‐geopolitical perspective, a growing body of work has begun to catalogue the ways in which the violence of occupation is carried out through intimate spaces and practices. However, often missing from such accounts is an understanding of intimacy as a counter‐veiling political force. Looking at the ‘Love Under Apartheid’ project in Palestine, and queer anti‐occupation organising in I srael, this paper considers how storytelling can serve as both a research methodology and political intervention, changing the way geopolitical stories are told and unfold.