Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine by Zureik, Elia; Lyon, David; Abu-Laban, Yasmeen;

Short description:

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 ultimately their chief purpose is population control.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

Preface  Part 1: Introduction  1. Colonialism, Surveillance and Population Control: Israel/Palestine  Part 2: Theories of Surveillance in Conflict Zones  2. Identification, Colonialism and Control: Surveillant Sorting in Israel/Palestine  3. Making Place for the Palestinians in the Altneuland: Herzl, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish State  Part 3: Civilian Surveillance  4. Ominous Designs: Israel’s Strategies and Tactics of Controlling the Palestinians during the First Two Decades  5. The Matrix of Surveillance in Times of National Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Case  6. The Changing Patterns of Disciplining Palestinian National Memory in Israel  Part 4: Political Economy and Globalization of Surveillance  7. Laboratories of War: Surveillance and US-Israeli Collaboration in War and Security  8. Israel’s Emergence as a Homeland Security Capital  9. From Tanks to Wheelchairs: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Zionist Battlefield Experiments, and the Transparency of the Civilian  Part 5: Citizenship Criteria and State Construction  10. Legal Analysis and Critique of Some Surveillance Methods Used by Israel  11. Orange, Green, and Blue: Colour-Coded Paperwork for Palestinian Population Control  12. "You Must Know Your Stock": Census as Surveillance Practice in 1948 and 1967  Part 6: Surveillance, Racialization, and Uncertainty  13. Exclusionary Surveillance and Spatial Uncertainty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories  14. "Israelization" of Social Sorting and the "Palestinianization" of the Racial Contract: Reframing Israel/Palestine and The War on Terror  Part 7: Territory and Population Management in Conflict Zones  15. British and Zionist Data Gathering on Palestinian Arab Land Ownership and Population during the Mandate  16. Surveillance and Spatial Flows in the Occupied Palestinian Territories  17. Territorial Dispossession and Population Control of the Palestinians  Part 8: Social Ordering, Biopolitics and Profiling  18. The Palestinian Authority Security Apparatus: Biopolitics, Surveillance and Resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories  19. Behavioural Profiling in Israeli Aviation Security as a Tool for Social Control