Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 566 g
Afghanistan. Palestine. Iraq
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 566 g
ISBN: 978-1-57718-090-6
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvi
1 The Colonial Present 1
Foucault’s Laughter 1
The Present Tense 5
2 Architectures of Enmity 17
Imaginative Geographies 17
“Why do they hate us?” 20
September 11 24
3 “The Land where Red Tulips Grew” 30
Great Games 30
Uncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism 36
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices 44
4 “Civilization” and “Barbarism” 47
The Visible and the Invisible 47
Territorialization, Targets, and Technoculture 49
Deadly Messengers 56
Spaces of the Exception 62
Deconstruction 72
5 Barbed Boundaries 76
America’s Israel 76
Diaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster 78
Occupation, Coercion, and Colonization 89
Compliant Cartographies 95
Camp David and Goliath 102
6 Defiled Cities 107
Ground Zeros 107
Besieging Cartographies 117
Identities and Oppositions 138
7 The Tyranny of Strangers 144
“Not as conquerors or enemies.” 145
Coups and Conflicts 151
Desert Storms and Urban Nightmares 156
8 Boundless War 180
Black September 180
Killing Grounds 197
The Cutting-Room War 214
9 Gravity’s Rainbows 248
Connective Dissonance 248
The Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel 256
Pandora’s Spaces 258
Notes 263
Guide to Further Reading 352
Index 359
