Gaza and the Great March of Return: Enduring violence and spaces of wounding

This paper develops an agenda for political geographical work on violence, war, and trauma. Drawing from analysis of the Great March Return, a series mass demonstrations in Gaza Strip 2018 2019, it argues that geography related fields could be enriched by concepts enduring violence wounding. Enduring is offered as supplement to existing slow cognate such ‘everyday’, banal′, ‘chronic’ offering fresh ways understanding long-lasting effects their specific material origins. Wounding necropolitics ‘right kill’, emphasising how concomitant maim’ troubles contemporary theorisations biopower necropolitics, extending trauma include physical bodily Taken together, argument not only acute (or epidemic) forms can have chronic endemic) consequences but also some harm, like wounding, are characterised configurations calibrated or otherwise capacitated with power impart future harms even absence ‘blows’. Taking inspiration geopolitical forensics, places new emphasis ongoing lasting inhere geo-materialities The concludes reflection relation between wounding implications