A History Of Confinement In Palestine The Prison Web

Author : Stéphanie Latte Abdallah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031087097

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A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison Web by Stéphanie Latte Abdallah Pdf

This book deals with the contemporary history of the imprisonment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons since 1967, and, since the 2000s, in Palestinian facilities. The prison experience is widely shared in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It endurably marks personal and collective stories. Since the Occupation of the Palestinian Territories in 1967, mass incarceration has spun a prison web, a kind of suspended detention. Approximately, 40 percent of the male population has been to prison. It shows how the judicial and prison practices applied to Palestinian residents of the OPT are major fractal devices of control contributing to the management of Israeli borders, and shape a specific bordering system based on a mobility regime: such borders are mobile, networked, and endless. This history of confinement is that of the prison web, and of the in-between political, social, and personal spaces people weave between Inside and Outside prison. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, oral and written sources, archives, and extensive institutional documentation, this political anthropology book deals with carceral citizenships and subjectivities. Over time, imprisonment has had profound effects on personal experiences: on masculinities, femininities, gender relations, parentality, and intimacy. Woven like a web, this story is built around places, moments, people, and their testimonies.

Author : Florence Bernault
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015052544361

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A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa by Florence Bernault Pdf

Over the last 30 years, a substantial literature on the history of American and European prisons has developed. This collection is among the first in English to construct a history of prisons in Africa. Topics include precolonial punishments, living conditions in prisons and mining camps, ethnic mapping, contemporary refugee camps, and the political use of prison from the era of the slave trade to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1850658455

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Cultures of Confinement by Frank Dikötter Pdf

Prisons, it seems, are on the increase everywhere, from democratic Britain to communist China, as ever larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison everywhere as the predictable result of 'globalisation', Cultures of Confinement underlines that - like all institutions - it was never simply 'imposed' by colonial powers or 'copied' by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors, its success being dependent on its very flexibility. Complex cultural negotiations took place in encounters between different parts of the world, and rather than assigning a passive role to Latin America, Asia and Africa, the authors of this book point out the acts of resistance or appropriation which altered the social practices associated with confinement.

Author : Abeer Baker,Anat Matar
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745330215

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Threat by Abeer Baker,Anat Matar Pdf

Palestinian prisoners charged with security-related offences are immediately taken as a threat to Israel's security. They are seen as potential, if not actual, suicide bombers. This stereotype ignores the political nature of the Palestinian prisoners' actions and their desire for liberty. By highlighting the various images of Palestinian prisoners in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Abeer Baker and Anat Matar chart their changing fortunes. Essays written by prisoners, ex-prisoners, Human rights defenders, lawyers and academic researchers analyze the political nature of imprisonment and Israeli attitudes towards Palestinian prisoners. These contributions deal with the prisoners' status within Palestinian society, the conditions of their imprisonment and various legal procedures used by the Israeli military courts in order to criminalize and de-politicize them. Also addressed are Israel's breaches of international treaties in its treatment of the Palestinian prisoners, practices of torture and solitary confinement, exchange deals and prospects for release. This is a unique intervention within Middle East studies that will inspire those working in human rights, international law and the peace process.

Author : Mateo Hoke,Taylor Pendergrass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1608469565

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Six by Ten by Mateo Hoke,Taylor Pendergrass Pdf

A collection of intimate portraits told directly by people whose lives have been devastated by solitary confinement in America.

Author : Ismāʻīl Nāshif,Esmail Nashif
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Group identity
ISBN : 0415589339

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Palestinian Political Prisoners by Ismāʻīl Nāshif,Esmail Nashif Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israelis and charts the development of this community and its role within the politics of the ongoing conflict.

Author : Banu Bargu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231163408

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Starve and Immolate by Banu Bargu Pdf

Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Through an innovative approach that weaves together contemporary and critical political theory with political ethnography, Starve and Immolate analyzes the death fast struggle as an exemplary but not exceptional instance of self-destructive practices that should be understood as a consequence of, retort to, and refusal of the increasingly biopolitical forms of sovereign power deployed as a response to terrorism around the globe. The Turkish stateÕs pursuit of high security prisons based on cellular confinement, which would reconfigure traditional wards allowing political prisoners to live a communism in practice, led to a protracted movement in which dozens of political prisoners starved and immolated themselves. Banu Bargu chronicles the experiences, rituals, values, beliefs, ideological self-representations, and contentions of these protesters against the history of Turkish democracy and the treatment of dissent in a country where prisons have become sites of political confrontation. Bargu connects the increasing turn to self-destructive practices with the revamping of Turkish state sovereignty through a process of biopolitical securitization against terrorism. A critical response to Michel FoucaultÕs Discipline and Punish, Starve and Immolate centers on new forms of struggle that arise from the asymmetric antagonism between the state and its contestants in the contemporary prison. Bargu ultimately positions the weaponization of life as an emergent repertoire of political action, a bleak, violent, and ambivalent form of insurgent politics that seeks to wrench the power of life and death away from the modern state on corporeal grounds and increasingly theologized forms. Drawing attention to the existential commitment, sacrificial morality, and militant martyrdom that transforms these struggles into a complex amalgam of resistance, Bargu advances a critical-theoretical interpretation of human weapons that explores the global ramifications of their practices of resistance, as well as their possibilities and limitations.

Author : Mohammad Sabaaneh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1951491149

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Power Born of Dreams by Mohammad Sabaaneh Pdf

What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison? The walls of the cell are etched with the names of the prisoners who came before. A bird perches on the cell window and offers a deal: "You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories," stories of family, of community, of Gaza, of Palestine. Mohammad Sabaaneh brings uses his striking linocut artwork to help the world see Palestinian people as human, not as superheroes or political symbols.

Author : Rashad Shabazz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097737

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Spatializing Blackness by Rashad Shabazz Pdf

Over 277,000 African Americans migrated to Chicago between 1900 and 1940, an influx unsurpassed in any other northern city. From the start, carceral powers literally and figuratively created a prison-like environment to contain these African Americans within the so-called Black Belt on the city's South Side. A geographic study of race and gender, Spatializing Blackness casts light upon the ubiquitous--and ordinary--ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, Rashad Shabazz explores the myriad architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, urban planning, and incarceration. In particular, he investigates how the ongoing carceral effort oriented and imbued black male bodies and gender performance from the Progressive Era to the present. The result is an essential interdisciplinary study that highlights the racialization of space, the role of containment in subordinating African Americans, the politics of mobility under conditions of alleged freedom, and the ways black men cope with--and resist--spacial containment. A timely response to the massive upswing in carceral forms within society, Spatializing Blackness examines how these mechanisms came to exist, why society aimed them against African Americans, and the consequences for black communities and black masculinity both historically and today.

Author : Susan Abulhawa
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982137038

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Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa Pdf

From the internationally bestselling author of the “terrifically affecting” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East, for readers of international literary bestsellers including Washington Black, My Sister, The Serial Killer, and Her Body and Other Parties. As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Nahr’s subversive humor and moral ambiguity will resonate with fans of My Sister, The Serial Killer, and her dark, contemporary struggle places her as the perfect sister to Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties. Written with Susan Abulhawa’s distinctive “richly detailed, beautiful, and resonant” (Publishers Weekly) prose, this powerful novel presents a searing, darkly funny, and wholly unique portrait of a Palestinian woman who refuses to be a victim.

Author : Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1682193047

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Pen Pal by Tiyo Attallah Salah-El Pdf

Author : Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,Nādirah Shalhūb-Kīfūrkiyān
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108429870

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Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,Nādirah Shalhūb-Kīfūrkiyān Pdf

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children's power to interrupt it.

Author : Brett Story
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1517906881

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Prison Land by Brett Story Pdf

"Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations-including property, work, gender and race-enacted across various spatial forms and landscapes within American life"--

Author : Chris Cunneen,Antje Deckert,Amanda Porter,Juan Tauri,Robert Webb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000904048

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The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice by Chris Cunneen,Antje Deckert,Amanda Porter,Juan Tauri,Robert Webb Pdf

The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing worldwide movement aimed at decolonizing state policies and practices, and various disciplinary knowledges including criminology, social work and law. The collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge, politically engaged work from a diverse group of writers who take as a starting point an analysis founded in a decolonizing, decolonial and/or Indigenous standpoint. Centering the perspectives of Black, First Nations and other racialized and minoritized peoples, the book makes an internationally significant contribution to the literature. The chapters include analyses of specific decolonization policies and interventions instigated by communities to enhance jurisdictional self-determination; theoretical approaches to decolonization; the importance of research and research ethics as a key foundation of the decolonization process; crucial contemporary issues including deaths in custody, state crime, reparations, and transitional justice; and critical analysis of key institutions of control, including police, courts, corrections, child protection systems and other forms of carcerality. The handbook is divided into five sections which reflect the breadth of the decolonizing literature: • Why decolonization? From the personal to the global • State terror and violence • Abolishing the carceral • Transforming and decolonizing justice • Disrupting epistemic violence This book offers a comprehensive and timely resource for activists, students, academics, and those with an interest in Indigenous studies, decolonial and post-colonial studies, criminal legal institutions and criminology. It provides critical commentary and analyses of the major issues for enhancing social justice internationally. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Salar Khalifeh
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780863569470

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Wild Thorns by Salar Khalifeh Pdf

In this tense modern literary classic, acclaimed Palestinian author Sahar Khalifeh depicts the humiliation, bitter resignation and determined resistance of Palestinians under Israeli military occupation. First published in 1976, Wild Thorns was the first Arab novel to offer a glimpse of everyday life under Israeli occupation. With uncompromising honesty, Khalifeh pleads elegantly for survival in the face of oppression.