The article examines the affective dynamics of collective survival and resistance under Israeli settler colonialism in the Gaza Strip. Focusing on Gaza as an under-researched enclave of Israeli settler colonialism, it analyzes how young Palestinians renegotiated their affective bonds in response to two coinciding deadly events: the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 Israeli bombings. Theoretically, we extend the politics of emotions and affect to encompass experiences of settler-colonial violence. Drawing on original interviews with Palestinians in Gaza, we trace how affective bonds were impacted among families, friends, and neighbors and, from a transpersonal perspective, across the political community. We show how settler colonialism shaped responses to the pandemic, deepening existing inequalities and causing social frictions. The bombings, by contrast, triggered a unified response of pure terror and universal concern for collective survival. The military targeting of homes was countered by practices of physical and emotional togetherness in the face of death. Overall, our study shows how (i) different kinds of mortal dangers are experienced politically by colonized people, (ii) these experiences are conditioned by collective histories of colonial violence, and that (iii) they constitute expressions of collective affective life, necessary for the preservation of peoplehood amidst colonial oppression.

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定居者殖民主义和致命危险：对 COVID-19 和 2021 年以色列加沙年轻巴勒斯坦人爆炸案的情感反应


本文研究了加沙地带以色列定居者殖民主义下集体生存和抵抗的情感动态。它将加沙作为以色列定居者殖民主义研究不足的飞地，分析了巴勒斯坦年轻人如何重新协商他们的情感纽带，以应对两个同时发生的致命事件：COVID-19 大流行和 2021 年以色列爆炸案。从理论上讲，我们将情感和情感的政治扩展到包括定居者-殖民地暴力的经历。借鉴对加沙巴勒斯坦人的原始采访，我们追溯了家庭、朋友和邻居之间的情感纽带，以及从超个人的角度来看，整个政治社区的情感纽带是如何受到影响的。我们展示了定居者殖民主义如何影响对大流行病的反应，加深了现有的不平等并引发了社会摩擦。相比之下，爆炸事件引发了纯粹的恐怖和对集体生存的普遍关注的统一反应。军队对房屋的攻击通过面对死亡时身体和情感团结的做法来抵消。总体而言，我们的研究显示了 （i） 殖民地人民在政治上如何经历不同类型的致命危险，（ii） 这些经历受到殖民暴力的集体历史的制约，以及 （iii） 它们构成了集体情感生活的表达，这对于在殖民压迫中维护人民身份是必要的。