Star-Tied Water: Tracing Life in a Colonized Palestinian Village during the Time of the Anthropocene

Abstract

This article traces practices that ensure the continuity of life in the Palestinian village, approaching practitioners intimately through a methodology of slowness. It seeks to deconstruct the Anthropocene, an embodiment of the accelerated time that is intertwined with modernity, colonialism, and capitalism. The attempt to resist this acceleration lies in the sensory environment, through the relationality between all its components, from the earth and its depths to the sky and stars, passing through the blood in our veins. The Star-tied water, which this article explores, offers the possibility of tracing 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.