I’ve written about Khaled Jarrar’s work on sewage in Palestine and organised film screenings and roundtables around filmic engagements with waste in Lebanon and Palestine.

Based on my exchange with a number of artists, a 2024 paper looked at artistic engagements with Lebanon’s waste crisis. Adriana Massidda and I also have an entry in UCL Press’ Wastiary.

With Manal Massalha, I have written about the role waste plays in liminal or suspended spaces of Jerusalem, which are inside the municipality, but cut off by the Separation Wall. In these spaces, we argue, the symbolic and embodied abjection of waste draws boundaries of urban belonging through everyday lived experience.

Find the full article - including Manal’s excellent photographs such as the one below - here: Baumann & Massalha (2021) ‘Your daily reality is rubbish’ in Urban Studies.