Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation - Softcover

Weizman, Eyal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844678687 ISBN 13: 9781844678686

Publisher: Verso, 2012

Synopsis

Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel s colonial occupation.In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel s mechanisms of control and the transformation of the Occupied Territories into an artifice in which all natural and built features function as the instruments of occupation. Weizman identifies the ideas behind this phenomenon and traces their development, from the influence of archaeology on urban planning, Ariel Sharon s reconceptualization of military defense during the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the settlements, to the contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urban warfare and airborne targeted assassinations.In exploring Israel s methods to transform the landscape and the built environment themselves into tools of domination and control, Hollow Land lays bare the political

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About the Author

Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he directs the Centre for Research Architecture and the European Research Council funded project Forensic Architecture. He is also a founder member of the collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is the author of Hollow Land, The Least of All Possible Evils, and co-editor of A Civilian Occupation. He lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844678687
• ISBN 13: 9781844678686
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336