Unspectacular spaces of slow wounding in Palestine

This paper is an attempt to develop a notion of violence based on the ability wound slowly. It starts by exploring everyday events in strangulated West Bank site struggling with Israel's colonisation and settlement policies, thus painting nuanced picture how slowness slow proceedings through unspectacular mundane spatialisations. The spatially manifold “slow wounding” offered, one that not only helps showing ordinary spaces can wound, but also forces us ask wounding becomes possible first place. In latter regard, it shown power remains embedded what consists our fundamental exposure living. Such doesn't merely name woundedness life power, itself. On hand, enabled woundedness, while other hand fundamentally limited it. While this ambiguity unfold inherent incapacity ever fully force Palestinian lives under established orders governing, most notably unearths way which particular ways are complexly entwined around life's incurable proneness – being living being.