Grey Areas: Mapping Settler Colonialism in the West Bank
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the transfer of the occupying power's own civilian population in the territory it occupies.
For decades, illegal Israeli settlements have been established and expanding across Palestinian territories in the West Bank, which Israel occupies. These sites are censored by the Israeli security apparatus on public platforms, which calls for alternative methodologies and practices to investigate the spatial violence that occurs.
This thesis seeks to understand the role of architecture in the occupation of Palestinian territories, and to counter-map the expansion of settlements that continue to infringe on Palestinian lands.
