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Author Katz, Irit

Title The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (368 p.)
Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction: The Common Camp -- Chapter 1. The Camp Reconfigured: Modernity's Versatile Architecture of Power -- Chapter 2. Facilitating Double Colonialism: British and Zionist Camps in Mandatory Palestine -- Chapter 3. Gathering, Absorbing, and Reordering the Diaspora: Immigrant and Transit Camps of Israel's Early Statehood -- Chapter 4. Forced Pioneering: Settling Israel's Frontiers -- Chapter 5. Unrecognized Order: The Imposed Campness of the Negev/Naqab Bedouin
Chapter 6. Camping, Decamping, Encamping: Palestinian Refugee Camps and Protest Camps and Israeli Settler Camps in the Occupied Territories -- Chapter 7. In the Desert Penal Colony: Holot Detention Camp for African Asylum Seekers -- Conclusion, or Toward an Ever-Emerging Theory of the Camp -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Protest camps -- Israel
Protest camps -- Palestine
Internment camps -- Israel
Immigrants -- Housing -- Israel
Internment camps -- Palestine
Immigrants -- Housing -- Palestine
Refugees -- Housing -- Israel
Refugees -- Housing -- Palestine
Refugee camps -- Israel
Refugee camps -- Palestine
Refugees -- Housing.
Refugee camps.
Protest camps.
Internment camps.
Immigrants -- Housing.
Middle East -- Palestine.
Israel.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452960791
1452960798