Space And Mobility In Palestine (public Cultures Of The Middle East And North Africa)
by Julie Peteet /
2017 / English / PDF
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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 Palestinians 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.
"Peteet is one of the world's leading anthropologists of the Palestinian experience, and her new book is urgent and thought provoking. She exploresthe use of enclosure, entrapment, and separation as a distinct form of colonial control in the Palestinian West Bank and provides some telling examples of how Palestinians attempt to live within and through these restrictions." - Tobias Kelly, author of Law, Violence, and Sovereignty among West Bank Palestinians
