Temporalities at Allenby Bridge

In this brainstorming session, Veronique Botemps highlighted the temporality imposed on Palestinians by the Israeli occupation as a colonial temporality, as it relies on a process of expropriation.  With taking the Allenby Bridge as a case study, Botemps emphasized that for the Palestinians, this bridge constitutes the only crossing point towards Jordan and the outside world and back. She also argues that the Allenby Bridge is the place where Palestinians experiment a specific temporal experience:  It is a piece of the Israeli system of occupation which not only fragments their perception of space, but also disrupts their perception of time. She analyses the spatial organization of the Bridge, which is a place to what she describes as a colonial temporal regime.