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Detention and confinement--of both combatants and large groups of
civilians--have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course
of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and
practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps,
internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions
"protect" populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these
arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of
concentration camps, strategic hamlets, "security walls," and
offshore prisons has come to be.
"Time in the Shadows" investigates the two major liberal
counterinsurgencies of our day: Israeli occupation of Palestine and
the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the book investigates Abu
Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and
Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial
counterinsurgencies from the Boer War and the U.S. Indian wars, to
Vietnam, the British small wars in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Cyprus,
and the French pacification of Indochina and Algeria.
Khalili deftly demonstrates that whatever the form of
incarceration--visible or invisible, offshore or inland, containing
combatants or civilians--liberal states have consistently acted
illiberally in their counterinsurgency confinements. As our tactics
of war have shifted beyond slaughter to elaborate systems of
detention, liberal states have warmed to the pursuit of asymmetric
wars. Ultimately, Khalili confirms that as tactics of
counterinsurgency have been rendered more "humane," they have also
increasingly encouraged policymakers to willingly choose to wage
wars.
Detention and confinementOCoof both combatants and large groups of
civiliansOCohave become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course
of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and
practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps,
internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions
protect populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these
arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of
concentration camps, strategic hamlets, security walls, and
offshore prisons has come to be.
"Time in the Shadows" investigates the two major liberal
counterinsurgencies of our day: Israeli occupation of Palestine and
the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the book investigates Abu
Ghraib, Guantinamo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and
Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial
counterinsurgencies from the Boer War and the U.S. Indian wars, to
Vietnam, the British small wars in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Cyprus,
and the French pacification of Indochina and Algeria.
Khalili deftly demonstrates that whatever the form of
incarcerationOCovisible or invisible, offshore or inland,
containing combatants or civiliansOColiberal states have
consistently acted illiberally in their counterinsurgency
confinements. As our tactics of war have shifted beyond slaughter
to elaborate systems of detention, liberal states have warmed to
the pursuit of asymmetric wars. Ultimately, Khalili confirms that
as tactics of counterinsurgency have been rendered more humane,
they have also increasingly encouraged policymakers to willingly
choose to wage wars."
On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world.
A parade of ships full of raw commodities-iron ore, coal,
oil-arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with
manufactured goods in all directions. The oil that fuels China's
manufacturing comes primarily from the Arabian peninsula. Much of
the material shipped from China are transported through the ports
of Arabian peninsula, Dubai's Jabal Ali port foremost among them.
China's 'maritime silk road' flanks the peninsula on all sides.
Sinews of War and Trade is the story of what the making of new
ports and shipping infrastructure has meant not only for the
Arabian peninsula itself, but for the region and the world beyond.
The book is an account of how maritime transportation is not simply
an enabling companion of trade, but central to the very fabric of
global capitalism. The ports that serve maritime trade, logistics,
and hydrocarbon transport create racialised hierarchies of labour,
engineer the lived environment, aid the accumulation of capital
regionally and globally, and carry forward colonial regimes of
profit, law and administration.
The body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of
power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and
racialised pressures all rest. In this vital new essay, scholar
Laleh Khalili draws on her ongoing research and experiences of
travelling on cargo ships to explore the embodied life of these
labourers. She investigates an experience riddled with adversities
- loneliness, loss, and violence, stolen wages and exploitative
shipowners - as well as ephemeral moments of joy and solidarity. In
the unique arena of the ship, Khalili traces the many forms of
corporeality involved in work at sea and the ways the body is
engaged by the institutions that engulf seafarers' lives and work.
Illustrated throughout with the author's own photographs, this book
takes in both scholarly and literary accounts to describe with care
and imagination the material and physical realities of contemporary
commerce at sea. Drawing on the insights of feminists and scholars
of racial capitalism, it centres the lives of those so often
forgotten or dismissed in enterprises of capital accumulation and
the raced and gendered hierarchies that shape them.
Many decades have passed since the Palestinian national movement
began its political and military struggle. In that time, poignant
memorials at massacre sites, a palimpsest of posters of young
heroes and martyrs, sorrowful reminiscences about lost loved ones,
and wistful images of young men and women who fought as guerrillas,
have all flourished in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and in
the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Heroes and Martyrs of
Palestine tells the story of how dispossessed Palestinians have
commemorated their past, and how through their dynamic everyday
narrations, their nation has been made even without the
institutional memory-making of a state. Bringing ethnography to
political science, Khalili invites us to see Palestinian
nationalism in its proper international context and traces its
affinities with Third Worldist movements of its time, while tapping
a rich and oft-ignored seam of Palestinian voices, histories, and
memories.
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Thinking Palestine (Paperback)
Ilan Pappe, Laleh Khalili, Sari Hanafi, Ghada Karmi, David Landy, …
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R1,490
Discovery Miles 14 900
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This book brings together an inter-disciplinary group of
Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who
theorise 'the question of Palestine'. Critically committed to
supporting the Palestinian quest for self determination, they
present new theoretical ways of thinking about Palestine. These
include the 'Palestinization' of ethnic and racial conflicts, the
theorization of Palestine as camp, ghetto and prison, the
tourist/activist gaze, the role of gendered resistance, the
centrality of the memory of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) to the
contemporary understanding of the conflict, and the historic roots
of the contemporary discourse on Palestine. The book offers a novel
examination of how the Palestinian experience of being governed
under what Giorgio Agamben names a 'state of exception' may be
theorised as paradigmatic for new forms of global governance. An
indispensable read for any serious scholar.
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Thinking Palestine (Hardcover)
Ilan Pappe, Laleh Khalili, Sari Hanafi, Ghada Karmi, David Landy, …
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R2,914
Discovery Miles 29 140
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book brings together an inter-disciplinary group of
Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who
theorise 'the question of Palestine'. Critically committed to
supporting the Palestinian quest for self determination, they
present new theoretical ways of thinking about Palestine. These
include the 'Palestinization' of ethnic and racial conflicts, the
theorization of Palestine as camp, ghetto and prison, the
tourist/activist gaze, the role of gendered resistance, the
centrality of the memory of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) to the
contemporary understanding of the conflict, and the historic roots
of the contemporary discourse on Palestine. The book offers a novel
examination of how the Palestinian experience of being governed
under what Giorgio Agamben names a 'state of exception' may be
theorised as paradigmatic for new forms of global governance. An
indispensable read for any serious scholar.
Many decades have passed since the Palestinian national movement
began its political and military struggle. In that time, poignant
memorials at massacre sites, a palimpsest of posters of young
heroes and martyrs, sorrowful reminiscences about lost loved ones,
and wistful images of young men and women who fought as guerrillas,
have all flourished in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and in
the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Heroes and Martyrs of
Palestine tells the story of how dispossessed Palestinians have
commemorated their past, and how through their dynamic everyday
narrations, their nation has been made even without the
institutional memory-making of a state. Bringing ethnography to
political science, Khalili invites us to see Palestinian
nationalism in its proper international context and traces its
affinities with Third Worldist movements of its time, while tapping
a rich and oft-ignored seam of Palestinian voices, histories, and
memories.
This new four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical
scholarship counters the oft-cited opinion that studies of Middle
Eastern politics are devoid of social scientific theory and method
by providing an overview of the state of the scholarship in the
field, innovations therein, and the debates that have advanced
knowledge in the field. The collection covers the Arab world, from
Morocco to the borders of Iran, with the focus primarily on the
twentieth century, and especially the post-Second World War era. By
choosing a wide array of authors, many of whom are from the region
or from the non-Anglophone world, the full breadth of worldwide
scholarship on the modern Arab world is on display. The collection
defines politics broadly-in line with the most innovative current
works in the field of political studies-to include not only
politics at the state level, but also the public, social, and
popular domains that define and shape (and are in turn defined and
shaped by) politics.
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