ABSTRACT
This chapter considers time, materiality, and embodiment in three nested contexts, and focuses on the significance of the landscape in the context of the depopulated villages of the West Bank. It looks at the ways that the past and the present is negotiated through memory and movement, with a particular focus on the land surrounding the depopulated villages of Iqrit and Kufr Bir'im. The chapter argues that the 'organic' relation is sustained by engaging with the land through walking and restoration. It also considers the extent to which Andreas Huyssen's concept of 'the nostalgic lure' unfolds in the case of the restoration and the reutilisation of the ruins, and whether the 'authentic ruin' can be redefined in the context of ongoing territorial contestation. Locating pluritemporality in Palestine-Israel, DeSilvey and Edensor's interpretation highlights the significance of the different stages of ruin in the negotiation of time, conflict, and narrating conflict.
