Irit Katz

The Common Camp

Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Focusing on the geopolitical complexity of Israel-Palestine and the dramatic changes it has experienced during the past century, The Common Camp explores the region's extensive networks of camps and their existence as both a tool of colonial power and a makeshift space of resistance. Bringing together a broad range of historical and ethnographic materials within the context of this singular yet versatile entity, the book locates the camp at the core of modern societies and how they change and transform"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 179mm x 254mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9781517907174
• ISBN-10: 1517907179
• Artikelnr.: 63327439

Autorenporträt

Irit Katz is assistant professor of architecture and urban studies at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ’s College.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary
Introduction: The Common Camp
1. The Camp Reconfigured: Modernity’s Versatile Architecture of Power
2. Facilitating Double Colonialism: British and Zionist Camps in Mandatory
Palestine
3. Gathering, Absorbing, and Reordering the Diaspora: Immigrant and Transit
Camps of Israel’s Early Statehood
4. Forced Pioneering: Settling Israel’s Frontiers
5. Unrecognized Order: The Imposed Camp-ness of the Negev/Naqab Bedouin
6. Camping, Decamping, Encamping: Palestinian Refugee and Protest Camps and
Israeli Settler Camps in the Occupied Territories 
7. In the Desert Penal Colony: Holot Detention Camp for African Asylum
Seekers
Conclusion, or Toward an Ever-Emerging Theory of the Camp
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index