Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear

Examines security theology, surveillance and the industry of fear from the intimate spaces of everyday life in settler colonial contexts.

List of contents

1. Introduction: settler colonialism, the politics of fear and the security theology; 2. Price tagging Palestinians: alternative methods of surveillance and control; 3. Israel in the bedroom: citizenship and entry law; 4. Hunted homeplaces; 5. Death and colonialism: the sacred and the profane; 6. Birth in Jerusalem; 7. Conclusion: newborns, new deaths and the 'gravediggers'.

About the author

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law and the School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a long-time anti-violence, native Palestinian feminist activist and the director of the Gender Studies Program at Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa.

Summary

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian offers new insights into the everyday production of security, surveillance and its industry of fear in settler colonial contexts by building on the voices of those living in one of the world's longest-standing conflict zones: Israel/Palestine.

Product details

• Authors: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera (Hebrew University of J Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera (The Hebrew University Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Shalhoub-Kevorkian Nadera
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2015
• EAN: 9781107097353
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09735-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, Law, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, Politics & government, Palestine, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties