6. Despotic Devices Yet Another Form

Despotic Devices Yet Another Form

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Title	Despotic Devices
Subtitle	Yet Another Form
Contributor	Anonymous (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0508.06
Landing page	http://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0508/chapters/10.11647/obp.0508.06
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Copyright	Anonymous
Publisher	Open Book Publishers
Published on	2026-04-29
Long abstract	Through attending to the physical and affective experience of displacement, this auto-ethnographic account examines Palestinian migration as a condition of exile. Encounters with Western bureaucratic systems, both within and beyond academic institutions, illustrate how these structures function as invisible borders that reproduce racialized non-belonging and create a persistent condition of perpetual delay.
Print length	8 pages
Language	English (Original)
THEMA	JBFH JHB JHBA JN JBFA
BISAC	SOC007000 SOC026000 SOC026040 SOC008000 EDU015000
Keywords	migrant academics academic precarity academic mobility autoethnography postcolonial academia global higher education

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Barghouti, M., I Saw Ramallah, trans. by A. Soueif (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000) [original work published 1997]
Davies, H., and Y. Abraham, ‘“A Million Calls an Hour”: Israel Relying on Microsoft Cloud for Expansive Surveillance of Palestinians’, The Guardian. (6 August 2025), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud
Said, E. W., Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).

Through attending to the physical and affective experience of displacement, this auto-ethnographic account examines Palestinian migration as a condition of exile. Encounters with Western bureaucratic systems, both within and beyond academic institutions, illustrate how these structures function as invisible borders that reproduce racialized non-belonging and create a persistent condition of perpetual delay.