Freshly Printed - allow 7 days lead
Couldn't load pickup availability
Space and Mobility in Palestine
Julie Peteet (Author)
9780253024930
Paperback / softback, published 15 January 2017
252 pages, 7 b&w illus. - 12 Illustrations, black and white
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.345 kg
Space and Mobility in Palestine is a welcome addition to the rich tradition of anthropological work on Palestine.
Read alongside works in cartography and history, this ethnography contributes to the anthropology of shrinking spaces, borders, checkpoints, militarization, and expropriation by documenting what it is like to live with major restrictions on mobility.
(Anthropological Quarterly)[T]he book is the result of the work and reflections of a scholar who has worked with and written about Palestinians for over three decades. As such, it elaborates with great specificity on the theoretical contributions of thinkers like Foucault and Agamben, while providing new insights into the multifarious examples of contemporary settlercolonialism.
(Anthropological Quarterly)Professor Julie Peteet believes that the concept of mobility is key to understanding how place and space act as forms of power, identity, and meaning among Palestinians in Israel today. In Space and Mobility in Palestine, she investigates how Israeli policies of closure and separation influence Palestinian concerns about constructing identity, the ability to give meaning to place, and how Palestinians comprehend, experience, narrate, and respond to Israeli settler-colonialism. Peteet's work sheds new light on everyday life in the Occupied Territories and helps explain why regional peace may be difficult to achieve in the foreseeable future.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Space and Mobility in the Time of Closure
1. "Permission to Breathe": Closure and the Wall
2. Mobility: Legibility, Permits and Roads
3. Geography of Anticipation and Risk: Checkpoints, Filters and Funnels
4. Waiting and "Stealing Time": Closure's Temporality
5. Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Time of Closure
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index