Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience

ISBN-13: 9780415627054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 258 str.

Nurhan Abujidi

Opis

This volume explores the way urbicide is used to un/re-make the Palestinian territoriality/urbanity as well as a tool of spatial dispossession and control. It also examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial projects in the Middle East.

Recenzje

"Nevertheless, there is much of value in this book beyond the specific case of Nablus, especially where the author focuses on acts of what she calls “spatial resistance,” including movements of symbolic return to destroyed and depopulated villages in historic Palestine and the deployment of “counter-knowledge” to subvert the Israeli regime of surveillance and control. Notably, she also discusses the “re-coloni¿ing movement” of Bab al-Shams, when for a few months in the winter and spring of 2013, several tent “villages” were erected by Palestinian and international activists on lands marked for confiscation and the building of Israeli colonies, particularly in the Jordan Valley. The author sees great potential for this form of “rhizomatic resistance” (following Deleuze and Guattari) that she
sees echoed in the 2011 Egyptian uprising, the Indignado movement in Spain, and the various Occupy protests in the US."
Lisa Taraki

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction: Experiencing Spaces of Oppression and Resistance 1 Cities & War 2 Urbicide: Theoretical Inquiry Part II: Urbicide in Palestine 3 History of Urban/ Territorial Destruction in Palestine 1948-2002 Part III: Nablus 4 Nablus: Historical Perspective 5 Nablus: a City of Heritage 6 Nablus: Urbicide 2002-2005 Part IV: Revisions 7 Urbicide, States of Exception and Beyond 8 The Palestinian Resistance Discourse