Star-Tied Water: Tracing Life in a Colonized Palestinian Village During the Anthropocene

Abstract

This article traces practices that sustain the continuity of life in Palestinian villages, approaching practitioners intimately through a methodology of slowness. It examines the Anthropocene as an embodiment of accelerated time deeply intertwined with modernity, colonialism, and capitalism. It argues that resistance to this acceleration emerges through the sensory environment and the relationality between all its components, from the earth to the sky and stars, to the blood in our veins. Focusing on the practice of star-tying water, this article explores an alternative trajectory of interconnected movement between the environment and the body, allowing for contemplation of the surrounding space and the identification of practices that bridge past, present, and future.