1st Edition

Palestinian Geographies Theory, Society and Security

By Nik Hynek, Levon Ter-Ghazaryan Copyright 2027
208 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates how Palestinians engage in compensatory movements to negotiate political authority, collective identity, and everyday life by opening alternative routes and creating functional spaces. What sets this work apart is its innovative focus on the principle of compensation, which disrupts linear readings of functionality or dysfunction in Palestinian spaces. Rather than viewing... Read more

Introduction  Chapter 1: Six Geographies of Palestinian Spatiality  Chapter 2: The Palestinian-Israeli Diagram  Chapter 3: UNRWA and the Palestinian Substitutive Compensations  Chapter 4: Gaza’s Heterotopias: Topologies of Catastrophe  Chapter 5: Subterranean Compensations: Mobilities in Gaza's Tunnels  Chapter 6: More-than-Human Invasion in the West Bank  Conclusion: Toward a Research Program on Geographies of Compensation

Biography

Nik Hynek is Full Professor of Political and Cultural Geography, Metropolitan University Prague, Czechia.

Levon Ter-Ghazaryan is Assistant Professor at Metropolitan University Prague, Czechia.