The conflict shoreline: colonization as climate change in the Negev Desert

The village of al-‘Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the ongoing “battle over the Negev,” an Israeli state campaign to uproot the Palestinian Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during the Israel-Palestine confl ict, t...

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Main Author: Sheikh, Fazal 1965- (Author)
Other Authors: Weizman, Eyal 1970- (Photographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Göttingen Steidl 2015
Edition:First edition
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Summary:The village of al-‘Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the ongoing “battle over the Negev,” an Israeli state campaign to uproot the Palestinian Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during the Israel-Palestine confl ict, this one is not demarcated by fences and walls but by shifting climatic conditions. The threshold of the desert advances and recedes in response to colonization, cultivation, displacement, urbanization, and, most recently, climate change. In his response to Sheikh’s “Desert Bloom” series (part of Sheikh’s The Erasure Trilogy, published by Steidl), Eyal Weizman’s essay incorporates historical aerial photographs, contemporary remote sensing data, state plans, court testimonies, and nineteenth-century travelers’ accounts, exploring the Negev’s threshold as a “shoreline” along which climate change and political confl ict are deeply and dangerously entangled
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-92)
Physical Description:92 Seiten 270 mm x 206 mm
ISBN:9783869309927
9783958290358
9783869308050

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