1st Edition

Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine Population, Territory and Power

Edited By Elia Zureik, David Lyon, Yasmeen Abu-Laban Copyright 2011
    416 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    440 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This book examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in Israel and the Occupied Territories, showing how they operate, how well they work, how they are augmented, and how in the end their chief purpose is population control.

    Showing how what might be regarded as exceptional elsewhere is here regarded as the norm, the book looks not only at the political economy of surveillance and its technological and military dimensions, but also at the ordinary ways that Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories are affected in their everyday lives. Written in a clear and accessible style by experts in the field, this book will have large appeal for academic faculty as well as graduate and senior undergraduate students in sociology, political science, international relations, surveillance studies and Middle East studies.

    Preface Elia Zureik, David Lyon and Yasmeen Abu-Laban  Part I: Introduction  1. Colonialism, Surveillance and Population Control: Israel/Palestine Elia Zureik  Part II: Theories of Surveillance in Conflict Zones  2. Identification, Colonialism and Control: Surveillant Sorting in Israel/Palestine David Lyon  3. Making Place for the Palestinians in the Altneuland: Herzl, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish State Glenn Bowman  Part III: Civilian Surveillance  4. Ominous Designs: Israel’s Strategies and Tactics of Controlling the Palestinians during the First Two Decades Ahmad Sa'di  5. The Matrix of Surveillance in Times of National Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Case Hillel Cohen  6. The Changing Patterns of Disciplining Palestinian National Memory in Israel Tamir Sorek  Part IV: Political Economy and Globalization of Surveillance  7. Laboratories of War: Surveillance and US-Israeli Collaboration in War and Security Steven Graham  8. Israel’s Emergence as a Homeland Security Capital Neve Gordon  9. From Tanks to Wheelchairs: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Zionist Battlefield Experiments, and the Transparency of the Civilian Nick Denes  Part V: Citizenship Criteria and State Construction  10. Legal Analysis and Critique of Some Surveillance Methods Used by Israel Usama Halabi  11. Orange, Green, and Blue: Colour-Coded Paperwork for Palestinian Population Control Helga Tawil-Souri  12. "You Must Know Your Stock": Census as Surveillance Practice in 1948 and 1967 Anat E. Leibler  Part VI: Surveillance, Racialization, and Uncertainty  13. Exclusionary Surveillance and Spatial Uncertainty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Ariel Handel  14. "Israelization" of Social Sorting and the "Palestinianization" of the Racial Contract: Reframing Israel/Palestine and The War on Terror Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan  Part VII: Territory and Population Management in Conflict Zones  15. British and Zionist Data Gathering on Palestinian Arab Land Ownership and Population during the Mandate Michael Fischbach  16. Surveillance and Spatial Flows in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Nurhan Abujidi  17. Territorial Dispossession and Population Control of the Palestinians Rassem Khamaisi  Part VIII: Social Ordering, Biopolitics and Profiling  18. The Palestinian Authority Security Apparatus: Biopolitics, Surveillance and Resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Nigel Parsons  19. Behavioural Profiling in Israeli Aviation Security as a Tool for Social Control Reg Whitaker

    Biography

    Elia Zureik is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. His published work covers the Middle East, with special reference to the Israeli--Palestinian conflict, and surveillance.

    David Lyon is Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Canada. He is the author of Surveillance Studies: An Overview (2007) and Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Citizenship (2009), and is currently researching the global growth of national ID systems.

    Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Associate Chair (Research) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. She specializes in the politics of gender, racialization, migration and citizenship. She is co-author of Selling Diversity (2002), co-editor of Politics in North America (2008), and editor of Gendering the Nation-State (2008).

    "This stimulating edited collection is a valuable contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship that takes Israel’s over forty-year occupation regime as its central object of analysis, research, and comparative theoretical reflection... this important volume provides a sound basis for further comparative studies in the technologies of power that are transforming the globe at this time." - Steve Niva; Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Autumn 2011)