Holding space open: Wor(l)ding the ruins of Gaza
本文通过分析Lubna Abu Sitta的干预,探讨在加沙空间被抹除的背景下,具身写作如何叙述难以言说的情感、损失与生存,为理解废墟中的空间与记忆提供地理学视角。
Witnessing the erasure of spaces and landscapes in Gaza reveals as much the ethical and ontological necessity to narrate as it does the limits of writing. In this commentary on Lubna Abu Sitta’s intervention, we grasp this tension by thinking with her how embodied writing can narrate what seems impossible for words to capture. Abu Sitta’s writing in-place and through lived ruination voices affects, attachments, vulnerabilities, losses, and exposures that circumnavigate bodies, while importantly holding space open for memory and life in a way that resist immense spatial erasure. This urges us to think embodied displacement geographically, bringing attention to ways of inhabiting the ruins and destruction with makeshift infrastructures, memories, and narrations of survival. These ways and the losses they carry might not lend themselves easily to academic narration, but they are nevertheless carved into bodies, memories, affects, atmospheres, materialities and landscapes—to spaces and bodies that are worlding the impossible in the ruins of Gaza.