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Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Ser.: Elastic Empire : Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine by Lisa Bhungalia (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN-101503637514
ISBN-139781503637511
eBay Product ID (ePID)2330058095
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameElastic Empire : Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine
Publication Year2023
SubjectAnthropology / Cultural & Social, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Security (National & International)
TypeTextbook
AuthorLisa Bhungalia
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History
SeriesStanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-010840
Reviews" Elastic Empire reveals critical forces, trends, and movements for thinking about aid and war in the present day. As aid takes the form of war itself, acting as a form of asphyxiatory violence in its own right, Bhungalia emphasizes the way that Palestinians continuously find new modes of relationality that allow them to survive in the face of over a century of settler-colonial dispossession."--Charles Finn, Antipode, " Elastic Empire offers a riveting portrait of the quiet administration of violence. Lisa Bhungalia maps US shadow wars carried out through the daily work of aid and state terror in Palestine. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the intimacies of US empire and the topological tentacles of counterterrorism law."--Alison Mountz, author of The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, " Elastic Empire is an utterly brilliant piece of research. Lisa Bhungalia fluently and beautifully uses theoretical elaborations of plasticity and malleability of empire to show the interconnections between the aid industry and settler colonial and imperial violence."--Laleh Khalili, author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies, "Washington's military and diplomatic support for Israel has understandably been the main reason for outrage among campus protesters across the US in the context of the ongoing war on Gaza. In the book Elastic Empire , we learn about more subtle forms of violence. It is not only with weapons and vetoes at the UN Security Council, but also through aid, that the US inscribes its imperial influence on Palestine."--Marc Martorell Junyent, Informed Comment, "Into the well-studied terrain of contemporary Palestine and Israel, Lisa Bhungalia has produced a book of stunning originality. Through wide-ranging and incisive analysis, she explains how ever more highly securitized models of foreign aid adversely affect Palestinians. Aid, she argues, is war by other means."--Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture, "In her book Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine , Lisa Bhungalia sheds light on how aid provided by the US contributes to sustaining the status quo of Palestinian oppression under Israeli occupation."--Jacqueline Tong, Palestine Book Awards
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal338.917305694
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. War Through Law 2. Elastic Sovereignty 3. Work of the List 4. Afterlives and Reverberations 5. Asphyxiatory Violence Conclusion
SynopsisThe United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine. Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed--this book tells the story of how aid has also become war. Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks, grenades, and guns, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life--in a greenhouse and library, in the collection of personal information and mapping of land plots, in the halls of municipal councils and in local elections--and indelibly transfigures lives. Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms., The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine. Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed-this book tells the story of how aid has also become war. Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks, grenades, and guns, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life-in a greenhouse and library, in the collection of personal information and mapping of land plots, in the halls of municipal councils and in local elections-and indelibly transfigures lives. Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms.
LC Classification NumberE183.8.P19B48 2024
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