The Colonial Present Afghanistan Palestine Iraq

Author : Derek Gregory
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781577180906
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Present written by Derek Gregory and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power continues to cast long shadows over our own present. Argues the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that were profoundly colonial in nature. The first analysis of the “war on terror” to connect events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq. Traces the connections between geopolitics and the lives of ordinary people. Richly illustrated and packed with empirical detail.

Author : Derek Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Present written by Derek Gregory and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Derek Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1577180895
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Present written by Derek Gregory and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power continues to cast long shadows over our own present. Argues the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that were profoundly colonial in nature. The first analysis of the “war on terror” to connect events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq. Traces the connections between geopolitics and the lives of ordinary people. Richly illustrated and packed with empirical detail.

Author : Jonathan Murdoch
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761974239
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-structuralist Geography written by Jonathan Murdoch and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to post-structuralist theory that critically assesses how the concept can be used to study space and place, this text communicates a new agenda for the study of human geography.

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191662429
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies written by Graham Huggan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past, in its multiple manifestations, and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.

Author : Mark Levine
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137036
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impossible Peace written by Mark Levine and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993 luminaries from around the world signed the 'Oslo Accords' - a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land - on the lawn of the White House. Yet things didn't turn out quite as planned. With over 1, 000 Israelis and close to four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the Oslo process is now considered 'history'. Impossible Peace provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of that history. Mark LeVine argues that Oslo was never going to bring peace or justice to Palestinians or Israelis. He claims that the accords collapsed not because of a failure to live up to the agreements; but precisely because of the terms of and ideologies underlying the agreements. Today more than ever before, it's crucial to understand why these failures happened and how they will impact on future negotiations towards the 'final status agreement'. This fresh and honest account of the peace process in the Middle East shows how by learning from history it may be possible to avoid the errors that have long doomed peace in the region.

Author : I. Saloul
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137001380
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination written by I. Saloul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture.

Author : Maha Samman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136668845
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine written by Maha Samman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine, this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the various theoretical frameworks in colonial urban studies. The book uses Henry Lefebvre’s three constituents of space – perceived, conceived and lived – to analyse past and present colonial cases interactively with time. It mixes the non-temporal conceptual framework of analysis of colonialism using literature of previous colonial cases with the inter-temporal abstract Lefebvrian concepts of space to produce an inter-temporal re-reading of them. Israeli colonialism in the occupied areas of 1967, its contractions from Sinai and Gaza, and the implications on the West Bank are analysed in detail. By illustrating the transformations in colonial urban space at different temporal stages, a new phase is proposed - the trans-colonial. This provides a conceptual means to avoid the pitfalls of neo-colonial and post-colonial influences experienced in previous cases, and the book goes on to highlight the implications of such a phase on the Palestinians. It is an important contribution to studies on Middle East Politics and Urban Geography.

Author : Joseph McQuade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901654
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Genealogy of Terrorism written by Joseph McQuade and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the 'thugs', 'pirates', and 'fanatics' of the nineteenth century, McQuade traces the emerging and novel legal category of 'the terrorist' in early twentieth-century colonial law, ending with an examination of the first international law to target global terrorism in the 1930s. Drawing on a wide range of archival research and a detailed empirical study of evolving emergency laws in British India, he argues that the idea of terrorism emerged as a deliberate strategy by officials seeking to depoliticize the actions of anti-colonial revolutionaries, and that many of the ideas embedded in this colonial legislation continue to shape contemporary understandings of terrorism today.

Author : James A. Tyner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351147544
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of War written by James A. Tyner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the cessation of major combat operations in Iraq, approximately 120 people - either contract workers or private soldiers - have been abducted, with one-third being executed. The largest contingent of these workers has been provided by the Philippines. Through a specific, though not exclusive, focus on the Philippines connection, this book considers the myriad ways in which transnational labour migration intersects with the occupation of Iraq. Also examining the role of the USA in the Middle East, the book places the war on terror within the practices of neoliberalism, but also links this with migration issues and argues that it is all part of a larger 'business' of conflict.