ASLE 2027: Ungrounding and Necropolitical Topographies: Terra, Terroir, Terrere.
In his searing book on the Gaza genocide, Ungrounding: the Architecture of Genocide, Eyal Weizman expands his central concept of ungrounding in the following manner: “Ungrounding…aims to remove a society from its place and erase all traces to its previous existence. It extends from buildings down to the soil beneath them. It is a type of violence that is earth-shaping, terra-forming. Ungrounding is not a by-product of military confrontation but rather its aim. It destroys all conditions that sustain life and produces an …
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