Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Gary Fields examines the dispossession of Palestinians from their land-and Israel's rationale for seizing control of Palestinian land-in the contexts of a broad historical analysis of power and space and of an enduring discourse about land improvement. Focusing on the English enclosures (which eradicated access to common land across the English countryside), Amerindian dispossession in colonial America, and Palestinian land loss, Fields shows how exclusionary landscapes have emerged across time and geography. Evidence that the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were used by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel's current claim that it is uniquely beleaguered. This comparative framework also helps readers in the United States and the United Kingdom understand the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the context of their own histories.
Land tenure --- amerindian. --- cartographer. --- conflict. --- contested lands. --- dispossession. --- international relations. --- israel palestine relations. --- middle east. --- palestinians. --- politicians. --- politics. --- poly sci students. --- teachers.
Choose an application
This first complete history of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip allows us to see beyond the smoke screen of politics in order to make sense of the dramatic changes that have developed on the ground over the past forty years. Looking at a wide range of topics, from control of water and electricity to health care and education as well as surveillance and torture, Neve Gordon's panoramic account reveals a fundamental shift from a politics of life-when, for instance, Israel helped Palestinians plant more than six-hundred thousand trees in Gaza and provided farmers with improved varieties of seeds-to a macabre politics characterized by an increasing number of deaths. Drawing attention to the interactions, excesses, and contradictions created by the forms of control used in the Occupied Territories, Gordon argues that the occupation's very structure, rather than the policy choices of the Israeli government or the actions of various Palestinian political factions, has led to this radical shift.
Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Military occupation --- Palestinian Arabs --- Jews --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Belligerent occupation --- De facto doctrine (International law) --- Occupation, Military --- Occupied territory --- Armed Forces in foreign countries --- War (International law) --- Conquest, Right of --- Military government --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social aspects --- Politics and government. --- Colonization --- Government policy --- History --- Gaza Strip --- West Bank --- Israel --- Politics and government --- balfour declaration. --- civilian control. --- control of electricity. --- control of water. --- diplomacy. --- east jerusalem. --- education. --- gaza strip. --- healthcare. --- invisible occupation. --- israel palestine relations. --- israel palestine. --- israel. --- israeli government. --- israeli palestinian conflict. --- middle eastern history. --- military government. --- occupied territories. --- peace process. --- political. --- politics of death. --- politics of life. --- politics. --- six day war. --- surveillance. --- torture. --- west bank.
Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|