Monthly Archives: March 2009

The Occupied Palestinian Territories and Late-modern Wars

Oliver Christian Belcher The  essays  collected  in  this  special  issue address  the  intersections  between  the  late-colonial occupation  of  the  Palestinian Territories  by  the  state  of Israel,  and  the  conduct  of  late-modern warfare.   Taking the  summer  2010  attack  on  the  Gaza  
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  • Volume 4, Number 1 (2011)

Unplug and play: Manufacturing collapse In Gaza

Omar Jabary Salamanca This article examines how colonial violence has been recast in light of Israel’s disengagement from Gaza during  the  summer  2005.  By looking  at  infrastructural networks —the  systems  that distribute water,  electricity sewage,  fuel  etc— it  explores  how  
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  • Volume 4, Number 1 (2011)

Shooting Gaza: Israel’s Visual War

Craig Jones In this paper I show how the  imaging and representation  of  war  is  becoming  ever more  central  to its  conduct: warfare  is being  fought  through what  I  call ‘image-fare’. I focus on the 23-day war on Gaza that
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  • Volume 4, Number 1 (2011)