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Description: Open - air prison Terror Resistance Occupation Siege Trauma Bare humanity: irrespective of when where and to whom the word is uttered Gaza immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly a plethora of metaphors also invoke Gaza: Crisis Exception Refugees Destitution Tunnels Persistence. With essays written by journalists writers doctors academics and others this volume uses metaphor to record and historicize Gaza to contextualize its everyday realities interrogate its representations and provide an understanding on Gaza's real and symbolic significance. The essays within written both from within Gaza and outside touch on life and survival the making of the Gaza Strip and its increasing isolation the discursive and visual tools that have often shackled Gaza behind misunderstandings and what Gaza contributes to our understanding of exception; inequality; dispossession; bio - politics; necro - power and other terms which we rely on to make sense of our world. The volume reveals how Gaza is an outcome of specific historical and spatial practices and not simply a metaphor of a far - away humanitarian disaster or place of incomprehensible violence. Gaza As Metaphor demonstrates that Gaza is a real place an inseparable part of the past present and future condition of Palestinians in particular and of dispossession more generally.
Title: Gaza As Metaphor
Brand: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781849046244
Pages: 288 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/15/2016
Category: International Relations
Description: Open - air prison Terror Resistance Occupation Siege Trauma Bare humanity: irrespective of when where and to whom the word is uttered Gaza immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly a plethora of metaphors also invoke Gaza: Crisis Exception Refugees Destitution Tunnels Persistence. With essays written by journalists writers doctors academics and others this volume uses metaphor to record and historicize Gaza to contextualize its everyday realities interrogate its representations and provide an understanding on Gaza's real and symbolic significance. The essays within written both from within Gaza and outside touch on life and survival the making of the Gaza Strip and its increasing isolation the discursive and visual tools that have often shackled Gaza behind misunderstandings and what Gaza contributes to our understanding of exception; inequality; dispossession; bio - politics; necro - power and other terms which we rely on to make sense of our world. The volume reveals how Gaza is an outcome of specific historical and spatial practices and not simply a metaphor of a far - away humanitarian disaster or place of incomprehensible violence. Gaza As Metaphor demonstrates that Gaza is a real place an inseparable part of the past present and future condition of Palestinians in particular and of dispossession more generally.
Title: Gaza As Metaphor
Brand: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781849046244
Pages: 288 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/15/2016
Category: International Relations
