Description: Further DetailsTitle: Waste SiegeCondition: NewEAN: 9781503610897ISBN: 9781503610897Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/10/2019Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Sophia Stamatopoulou-RobbinsLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Life of Infrastructure in PalestineISBN-10: 1503610896Description: Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians are obliged to forge their lives. To speak of waste siege is to describe a series of conditions, from smelling wastes to negotiating military infrastructures, from biopolitical forms of colonial rule to experiences of governmental abandonment, from obvious targets of resistance to confusion over responsibility for the burdensome objects of daily life. Within this rubble, debris, and infrastructural fallout, West Bank Palestinians create a life under settler colonial rule. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins focuses on waste as an experience of everyday life that is continuous with, but not a result only of, occupation. Tracing Palestinians' own experiences of wastes over the past decade, she considers how multiple authorities governing the West Bank—including municipalities, the Palestinian Authority, international aid organizations, NGOs, and Israel—rule by waste siege, whether intentionally or not. Her work challenges both common formulations of waste as "matter out of place" and as the ontological opposite of the environment, by suggesting instead that waste siege be understood as an ecology of "matter with no place to go." Waste siege thus not only describes a stateless Palestine, but also becomes a metaphor for our besieged planet.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and CulturesGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Waste Siege
Title: Waste Siege
EAN: 9781503610897
ISBN: 9781503610897
Release Date: 12/10/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
ISBN-10: 1503610896
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Waste Siege : the Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Environmental / Waste Management, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Middle East / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
