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The Steadfast Colonial Legacy The Steadfast Colonial Legacy
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Building Stasis and Sumud Building Stasis and Sumud
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The Shortest Distance between Ramallah and Oslo The Shortest Distance between Ramallah and Oslo
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Moving Mountains of Data: Mobilities Studies under Occupation Moving Mountains of Data: Mobilities Studies under Occupation
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PA Stasis: Anything but Fixed in Place and Time PA Stasis: Anything but Fixed in Place and Time
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All the Data That Remains: The Stasis of British Mandate Maps All the Data That Remains: The Stasis of British Mandate Maps
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A Digitized Mandate A Digitized Mandate
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Staying Put in Palestine: PA Stasis Staying Put in Palestine: PA Stasis
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Immobile Elites: NGOs on the Move Immobile Elites: NGOs on the Move
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In the Field, Stuck in the Car In the Field, Stuck in the Car
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Measuring the Extent of the Occupation Measuring the Extent of the Occupation
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Preservation in Pieces: A Diaspora of Palestinian Data Preservation in Pieces: A Diaspora of Palestinian Data
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Passages of PA Data Passages of PA Data
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4 The Colonizer in the Computer: Stasis and International Control in PA Maps
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Published:June 2017
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Abstract
Chapter 4, “The Colonizer in the Computer”, is an examination of how the colonial past and present can affect maps. The Palestinian Authority (PA), the provisional Palestinian government, was founded in the mid-1990s, and they were immediately charged with making their own maps. Their efforts roughly coincided with the second Intifada, or Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation. As such it was part of the broader political practice of sumud, or steadfastness, an effort to further the ongoing presence of Palestinians in the local landscape. Throughout their early years, however, the PA experienced constant challenges to its stability, including military raids on its offices and data infrastructure. These affected its ability to build stasis, which is here defined as the ability to ‘stay put’. Furthermore, the only existing maps they had to work with were from 60 year-old British colonial sources. These two factors, the Israeli raids and the British colonial maps, fundamentally shaped the state maps made by the PA. As a result, their maps were less useful for purposes of daily governance like elections, utilities, and infrastructure. PA cartography therefore illustrates the both the challenges and innovations of establishing material sovereignty over knowledge in colonial and postcolonial landscapes.
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