Space and Mobility in Palestine

Julie Peteet is Professor of Anthropology at University of Louisville. She is author of Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps and Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Space and Mobility in the Time of Closure 1. "Permission to Breathe": Closure and the Wall 2. Mobility: Legibility, Permits and Roads 3. Geography of Anticipation and Risk: Checkpoints, Filters and Funnels 4. Waiting and "Stealing Time": Closure's Temporality5. Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Time of Closure ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Space and Mobility in Palestine is a welcome addition to the rich tradition of anthropological work on Palestine.(American Ethnologist) Read alongside works in cartography and history, this ethnography contributes to the anthropology of shrinking spaces, borders, checkpoints, militarization, and expropriation by documenting what it is like to live with major restrictions on mobility.(Anthropological Quarterly) [T]he book is the result of the work and reflections of a scholar who has worked with and written about Palestinians for over three decades. As such, it elaborates with great specificity on the theoretical contributions of thinkers like Foucault and Agamben, while providing new insights into the multifarious examples of contemporary settlercolonialism.(Anthropological Quarterly)