Movement and the Ordering of Freedom - On Liberal Governances of Mobility

Informationen zum Autor Hagar Kotef Klappentext Examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces. Zusammenfassung Examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface  vii Acknowledgments  xi Introduction  1 1. Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine / Hagar Kotef and Merav Amir  27 2. An Interlude: A Tale of Two Roads—On Freedom and Movement  52 3. The Fence That "Ill Deserves the Name of Confinement": Locomotion and the Liberal Body  61 4. The Problem of "Excessive" Movement  87 5. The "Substance and Meaning of All Things Political": On Other Bodies  112 Conclusion  136 Notes  141 Bibliography  203 Index  217

Product details

• Authors: Hagar Kotef
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2015
• EAN: 9780822358435
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5843-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education