The colonial present : Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq / Derek Gregory
- Author
- Gregory, Derek, 1951-
- Published
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
- Physical Description
- xix, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Contents
- 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 -- Deconstruction -- Barbed boundaries -- America's Israel -- Diaspora, dispossession and disaster -- Occupation, coercion and colonization -- Compliant cartographies -- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1577180895 (hard cover : alk. paper)
1577180909 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-351) and index.
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