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Informationen zum Autor Derek Gregory is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Klappentext In this powerful and passionate critique of the "war on terror" in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East. He argues that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that mapped a profoundly colonial perimeter of power. The Colonial Present traces the connections between political, military, and economic power - the grand strategies of geopolitics - and the spatial stories told by the lives of ordinary people. It also shows the intimate connections between events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq. Packed with empirical detail, and shot through with arresting arguments, The Colonial Present is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand a world riven by a war on terror that is also a war of terror. Zusammenfassung Traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East. This work argues that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that were profoundly colonial in nature. It traces the connections between geopolitics and the lives of ordinary people. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvi 1 The Colonial Present 1 Foucault's Laughter 1 The Present Tense 5 2 Architectures of Enmity 17 Imaginative Geographies 17 "Why do they hate us?" 20 September 11 24 3 "The Land where Red Tulips Grew" 30 Great Games 30 Uncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism 36 The Sorcerer's Apprentices 44 4 "Civilization" and "Barbarism" 47 The Visible and the Invisible 47 Territorialization, Targets, and Technoculture 49 Deadly Messengers 56 Spaces of the Exception 62 Deconstruction 72 5 Barbed Boundaries 76 America's Israel 76 Diaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster 78 Occupation, Coercion, and Colonization 89 Compliant Cartographies 95 Camp David and Goliath 102 6 Defiled Cities 107 Ground Zeros 107 Besieging Cartographies 117 Identities and Oppositions 138 7 The Tyranny of Strangers 144 "Not as conquerors or enemies . . ." 145 Coups and Conflicts 151 Desert Storms and Urban Nightmares 156 8 Boundless War 180 Black September 180 Killing Grounds 197 The Cutting-Room War 214 9 Gravity's Rainbows 248 Connective Dissonance 248 The Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel 256 Pandora's Spaces 258 Notes 263 Guide to Further Reading 352 Index 359 ...
