%0 Journal Article
%T A spatial testimony: The politics of do
%A Hagit Keysar
%J Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
%@ 1472-3433
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0263775818820326
%X In this paper, I examine the kind of testimony enabled by do-it-yourself aerial photography with kites or balloons in situations of political and spatial conflict, and how this plays on the surface of proliferating uses of geospatial technologies in a human rights context. The case study presented here concerns the use of do-it-yourself aerial photography in the context of discriminatory urban planning policies and practices against the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem. Its analysis shows that the political potentials of do-it-yourself aerial photography go further than just enabling the independent production of high-resolution aerial evidence in near real-time settings. It brings forth a distinctive kind of testimony, which I term a ˇ°spatial testimony,ˇ± that pushes against a certain threshold of participation in human rights truth production and sheds light on the political role embodiment may play in such processes. The ˇ°spatial testimonyˇ± denotes not only the visual image or the speech act related to the testimony but also the whole process of experimentation with a self-built instrument that unsettles and reconfigures the political space of relations between human rights, human bodies, and technoscientific objects
%K East Jerusalem
%K aerial photography
%K satellite imagery
%K testimony
%K do-it-yourself
%K human rights
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263775818820326