Enclosure

Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror

Gary Fields (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29105-8 (ISBN)

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Today Israel's Separation Wall swallows land, separating Palestinian farmers from their fields, and Israeli settlements grow in the Occupied Territories. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, this title sheds light on Israel's actions.

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.

Gary Fields is Associate Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego.

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	33 b-w photos, 1 table
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-29105-0 / 0520291050
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29105-8 / 9780520291058
Zustand	Neuware