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

Informationen zum Autor Hagar Kotef is based at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University.  Klappentext We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement! organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces! from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Ordering of Freedom! Hagar Kotef examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces. Ranging from the writings of Locke! Hobbes! and Mill to the sophisticated technologies of control that circumscribe the lives of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank! this book shows how concepts of freedom! security! and violence take form and find justification via "regimes of movement." Kotef traces contemporary structures of global (im)mobility and resistance to the schism in liberal political theory! which embodied the idea of "liberty" in movement while simultaneously regulating mobility according to a racial! classed! and gendered matrix of exclusions. 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2015
• EAN: 9780822358558
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5855-8
• 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
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas