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Nida Sinnokrot - Palestine Is Not a Garden
Author | Anthony Downey, ed |
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Publisher | Sternberg Press |
ISBN | 9783956796302 |
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Status | not yet published |
The ideal of the garden conjures conflicting imaginaries of security and abundance, disobedience and control, inside and outside, and the specters of exile and return. These binaries have ontologically distinguished the garden from untamed wilderness. The ideal of the garden in the Occupied Palestinian Territories delineates a further series of genealogies that range from the Ottoman-era and subsequent British privatization of commonly owned land and the commons more broadly. The avowed colonial project of “making the desert bloom,” the continued rise of neoliberalism, “bubble” economics, occupation, consumer debt, and rampant forms of real estate speculation have further conspired to complicate how we understand the meaning and concept of the garden. These historical processes have produced a conundrum in the region that can be summed up, in part, in the statement “Palestine is not a garden.”
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English |
Sternberg Press