Colonial Present Afghanistan. Palestine. Iraq

Name: Colonial Present Afghanistan. Palestine. Iraq
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ISBN: 9781577180906

ISBN-10: 1577180909

ISBN-13: 9781577180906

Edition: 2004

Authors: Derek Gregory

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In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power continues to cast long shadows over our own present. Argues the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that were profoundly colonial in nature. The first analysis of the "war on terror" to connect events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq. Traces the connections between geopolitics and the lives of ordinary people. Richly illustrated and packed with…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Figures


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Colonial Present



Foucault's Laughter



The Present Tense



Architectures of Enmity



Imaginative Geographies



"Why do they hate us?"



September 11



The Land Where Red Tulips Grew:



Great Games



Uncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism



The Sorcerer's Apprentices



Civilization and Barbarism:



The Visible and the Invisible



Territorialization, Targets, and Technoculture



Deadly Messengers



Spaces of the Exception



Deconstructions



Barbed Boundaries:



America's Israel



Diaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster



Occupation, Coercion, and Colonization



Camp David and Goliath



Defiled Cities:



Ground Zeros



Besieging Cartographies



Identities and Oppositions



The Tyranny of Strangers:



"Not as conquerors or enemies..."



Coups and Conflicts



Desert Storms and Urban Nightmares



Boundless War:



Black September



Killing Grounds



The Cutting-room War



Gravity's Rainbows



Connective Dissonance



The Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel



Pandora's Spaces


Guide to Further Reading


Index