Coda. The Politics of Inhabitation

The coda begins with the global present and asks: What does it mean to read the global border crisis from the long colonial arc of Palestinian encampment? At stake in such a reading, at stake in a world of mass encampment, is the question of inhabitation. Inhabitation, the coda posits, is perhaps the political question of our time. In camps, inhabitation in itself, and not citizenship or rights, has become the basis of both political control and contestation. Thinking through inhabitation as a concept allows us both to recognize the enduring colonial terms of the border/climate crisis and to approach the political stakes of migrant/refugee struggle. A politics of inhabitation is one name for the life-making practices of the global dispossessed.