Space and Mobility in Palestine / Julie Peteet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peteet, Julie Marie, author.

Series:

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space--Social aspects.

Space.

Israeli West Bank Barrier.

Palestinian Arabs--Social conditions.

Palestinian Arabs.

Israel--Boundaries.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 they 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.

Contents:

Introduction : space and mobility in the time of closure

"Permission to breathe" : closure and the wall

Mobility : legibility, permits and roads

Geography of anticipation and risk : checkpoints, filters and funnels

Waiting and "stealing time" : closure's temporality

Anti-colonial resistance in the time of closure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253025111

0253024935

9780253024930

OCLC:

957581558