Enclosure
Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 5. September 2017
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-0-520-29104-1 (ISBN)
Description
Enclosure marshals bold new and persuasive arguments about the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, geographer Gary Fields sheds fresh light on Israel's actions. He places those actions in historical context in a broad analysis of power and landscapes across the modern world. Examining the process of land-grabbing in early modern England, colonial North America, and contemporary Palestine, Enclosure shows how patterns of exclusion and privatization have emerged across time and geography. That the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were copied by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel's current rationale as being uniquely beleaguered. It also helps readers in the United Kingdom and the United States understand the Israel-Palestine conflict in the context of their own, tortured histories.
Reviews / Votes
"Reading Enclosure brings home the tragedy of such immense and irrevocable destruction." * New York Review of Books * "The author utilizes a historical-comparative methodology to produce a trajectory of today's Palestinian loss since the time of legal land reforms in England. In this book, the story of the Palestinian landscape becomes a mirror onto which other histories are projected." * Journal of Palestine Studies * "A unique exploration of the development of the Israeli culture of land grabs and the historical legal framework and precedents that have allowed Zionist policies to continue unimpeded." * Middle East Monitor *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
33 b-w photos, 1 table
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-29104-1 (9780520291041)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
09/2017
1st Edition
University of California Press
€28.99
Available for download
Person
Gary Fields is Associate Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego.
Content
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 * THE CONTOURS OF ENCLOSURE
PART ONE
LAND INTO PROPERTY: ENCLOSURE, LAND IMPROVEMENT, AND MAKING PROPERTY ON THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE
2 * EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LANDSCAPES: RIGHTS OF LAND TENURE AND THE COMMON FIELDS
3 * FROM LAND REIMAGINED TO LANDSCAPES REMADE: THE DISCOURSE OF IMPROVEMENT AND ENCLOSING THE COMMON FIELDS
PART TWO
A LANDSCAPE OF LINES: COLONIZATION AND ERADICATION OF AMERINDIAN LANDSCAPES
4 * AMERINDIAN LANDSCAPES: SUBSISTENCE SYSTEMS, SPIRIT WORLDS, AND INDIGENOUS LAND TENURE
5 * REIMAGINING AND REMAKING NATIVE LANDSCAPES: LAND IMPROVEMENT AND TAKING AMERINDIAN LAND
PART THREE
"THIS IS OUR LAND": REDEEMING THE PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPE
6 * PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPES: LANDHOLDING AND TENANCY IN HISTORIC PALESTINE
7 * FROM IMAGINATION TO REDEMPTION: CRAFTING A HEBREW LANDSCAPE ON PALESTINIAN LAND
8 * ENCLOSURE IN A HISTORICAL MIRROR
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 * THE CONTOURS OF ENCLOSURE
PART ONE
LAND INTO PROPERTY: ENCLOSURE, LAND IMPROVEMENT, AND MAKING PROPERTY ON THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE
2 * EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LANDSCAPES: RIGHTS OF LAND TENURE AND THE COMMON FIELDS
3 * FROM LAND REIMAGINED TO LANDSCAPES REMADE: THE DISCOURSE OF IMPROVEMENT AND ENCLOSING THE COMMON FIELDS
PART TWO
A LANDSCAPE OF LINES: COLONIZATION AND ERADICATION OF AMERINDIAN LANDSCAPES
4 * AMERINDIAN LANDSCAPES: SUBSISTENCE SYSTEMS, SPIRIT WORLDS, AND INDIGENOUS LAND TENURE
5 * REIMAGINING AND REMAKING NATIVE LANDSCAPES: LAND IMPROVEMENT AND TAKING AMERINDIAN LAND
PART THREE
"THIS IS OUR LAND": REDEEMING THE PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPE
6 * PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPES: LANDHOLDING AND TENANCY IN HISTORIC PALESTINE
7 * FROM IMAGINATION TO REDEMPTION: CRAFTING A HEBREW LANDSCAPE ON PALESTINIAN LAND
8 * ENCLOSURE IN A HISTORICAL MIRROR
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX