Colonial Biopolitics

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Walaa Alqaisiya, doctoral candidate in Human Geography at Durham University, for sharing her insightful ideas and discussing with me numerous aspects in relation to this book.

Notes

1. Term is borrowed from Jeff Halper, who coined it to describe the multiple laws and regulations that Israel implements to control all aspects of Palestinian lives in the colonized Palestine. See further the website of Halper’s organization, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, www.icahd.org.

2. See the report by Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal (2015) The Palestine Exception to Free Speech. Available at: https://ccrjustice.org/the-palestine-exception, accessed September 30, 2015.

3. E. Shohat (1992) Notes on the ‘Post-Colonial,’ Social Text, 31/32, pp. 99–113.

4. A. Mbembe (2003) Necropolitics, Public Culture 15(1), p. 12.

5. It is worthwhile to note how the book provides the tool for understanding the debate around the 2015 attack on a Palestinian house in Nablus. See link http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/1.668871, accessed September 2, 2015.

6. Shalhoub-Kevorkian focuses on operational (military) and administrative (without a permit) demolitions, which are carried out though a legal foundation that dates back to the Defence Emergency Regulations enacted during the British mandate-era (1922–1948); see pp. 87–90.

7. See N. Shalhoub-Kevorkian (2009) Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case Study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 94.

8. See L. Wedeen (1999) Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (Chicago: University of Chicago Press); Y. Navaro-Yashin (2002) Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey (Princeton: Princeton University Press); I. Cherstich (2014) The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution, in: P. Weber, M. Webb & K. Spellman-Poots (eds) The Political Aesthetics of Global Protest: The Arab Spring and Beyond (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

9. S. Žižek (1987) The Sublime Object of Ideology (New York: Verso).

10. L. Allen (2013) The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine (Stanford: Stanford University Press), p. 188.

11. M. de Certeau (2011) The Practice of Everyday Life (Oakland: University of California Press).

12. S. Ortner (1995) Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal, Comparative Studies in Society and History 37(1), p. 175.

13. J. Guhin & J. Wyrtzen (2013) The Violences of Knowledge: Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity, in Julian Go (ed.) Postcolonial Sociology: Political Power and Social Theory, 24, pp. 231–262 (Bradford: Emerald Group Publishing Limited).