Space and Mobility in Palestine - (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa) by Julie Peteet (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 <i>Space and Mobility in Palestine, </i>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>Space and Mobility in Palestine</em> is a welcome addition to the rich tradition of anthropological work on Palestine.</p></p>-- "American Ethnologist"<br><br><p>[T]he book is the result of the work and reflections of a scholar who has worked with and written about Palestinians for over three decades. As such, it elaborates with great specificity on the theoretical contributions of thinkers like Foucault and Agamben, while providing new insights into the multifarious examples of contemporary settlercolonialism.</p>-- "Anthropological Quarterly"<br><br><p>Read alongside works in cartography and history, this ethnography contributes to the anthropology of shrinking spaces, borders, checkpoints, militarization, and expropriation by documenting what it is like to live with major restrictions on mobility.</p>-- "Anthropological Quarterly"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Julie Peteet is Professor of Anthropology at University of Louisville. She is author of <i>Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps </i>and <i>Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement</i>.</p>
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