Description
How do traumatically injured patients access healthcare in states and places where medical infrastructures have been destroyed, often deliberately, by military and paramilitary violence? In this paper I sketch a preliminary answer to this question in an examination of civilian trauma pathways in and beyond Gaza. I attend to the wound as an analytic (Dewachi, 2015) and follow wounds across borders in order shed light on the precarious condition of what now constitutes a wounded class across the Middle East. I suggest that the injury-inducing and maiming potential of war deserves more attention and that the afterlives of wounding are marked by a slow violence that is reconfiguring contemporary spacetimes of war.
