Hollow Land Cl

by Weizman,Eyal

• ISBN13: 9781844671250
• ISBN10: 1844671259
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-17
• Publisher: Verso Books

Summary

Hollow Land isa groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel'scolonial occupation.In this journey from the deep subterranean spacesof the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, Eyal Weizmanunravels Israel's mechanisms of control and its transformation of theOccupied Territories into a theoretically constructed artifice, inwhich all natural and built features function as the weapons and ammunitionwith which the conflict is waged. Weizman tracesthe development of these ideas, from the influence of archaeology onurban planning, Ariel Sharon's reconceptualization of military defenseduring the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of thesettlements, to contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urbanwarfare and airborne targeted assassinations.In exploring Israel's methods to transform the landscapeand the built environment themselves into tools of domination and control, Hollow Land lays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation.

Author Biography

Eyal Weizman is an architect and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Frontier Architecture	p. 1
Interlude - 1967	p. 17
Jerusalem: Petrifying the Holy City	p. 25
Fortifications: The Architecture of Ariel Sharon	p. 57
Settlements: Battle for the Hilltops	p. 87
Settlements: Optical Urbanism	p. 111
Checkpoints: The Split Sovereign and the One-Way Mirror	p. 139
The Wall: Barrier Archipelagos and the Impossible Politics of Separation	p. 161
Urban Warfare: Walking Through Walls	p. 185
Evacuations: Decolonizing Architecture	p. 221
Targeted Assassinations: The Airborne Occupation	p. 237
Postscript	p. 259
Notes	p. 269
Index	p. 311
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