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Enclosure Gary Fields

Enclosure By Gary Fields

Enclosure by Gary Fields


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Today Israel's Separation Wall swallows land, separating Palestinian farmers from their fields, and Israeli settlements grow in the Occupied Territories. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, this title sheds light on Israel's actions.

Enclosure Summary

Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror by Gary Fields

Enclosure marshals bold new and persuasive arguments about the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, geographer Gary Fields sheds fresh light on Israel's actions. He places those actions in historical context in a broad analysis of power and landscapes across the modern world. Examining the process of land-grabbing in early modern England, colonial North America, and contemporary Palestine, Enclosure shows how patterns of exclusion and privatization have emerged across time and geography. That the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were copied by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel's current rationale as being uniquely beleaguered. It also helps readers in the United Kingdom and the United States understand the Israel-Palestine conflict in the context of their own, tortured histories.

Enclosure Reviews

"Reading Enclosure brings home the tragedy of such immense and irrevocable destruction." * New York Review of Books *
"The author utilizes a historical-comparative methodology to produce a trajectory of todays Palestinian loss since the time of legal land reforms in England. In this book, the story of the Palestinian landscape becomes a mirror onto which other histories are projected." * Journal of Palestine Studies *
A unique exploration of the development of the Israeli culture of land grabs and the historical legal framework and precedents that have allowed Zionist policies to continue unimpeded. * Middle East Monitor *
"A book of incredible historical sweep and compelling depth of analysis. InEnclosure, none of the arguments Fields undertakes operates at the level of mere assertion." -- Don Mitchell, * American Association of Geographers Review of Books *

About Gary Fields

Gary Fields is Associate Professor of Communication at University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1 THE CONTOURS OF ENCLOSURE

PART ONE
LAND INTO PROPERTY: ENCLOSURE, LAND IMPROVEMENT, AND MAKING PROPERTY ON THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE

2 EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LANDSCAPES: RIGHTS OF LAND TENURE AND THE COMMON FIELDS

3 FROM LAND REIMAGINED TO LANDSCAPES REMADE: THE DISCOURSE OF IMPROVEMENT AND ENCLOSING THE COMMON FIELDS

PART TWO
A LANDSCAPE OF LINES: COLONIZATION AND ERADICATION OF AMERINDIAN LANDSCAPES

4 AMERINDIAN LANDSCAPES: SUBSISTENCE SYSTEMS, SPIRIT WORLDS, AND INDIGENOUS LAND TENURE

5 REIMAGINING AND REMAKING NATIVE LANDSCAPES: LAND IMPROVEMENT AND TAKING AMERINDIAN LAND

PART THREE
THIS IS OUR LAND: REDEEMING THE PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPE

6 PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPES: LANDHOLDING AND TENANCY IN HISTORIC PALESTINE

7 FROM IMAGINATION TO REDEMPTION: CRAFTING A HEBREW LANDSCAPE ON PALESTINIAN LAND

8 ENCLOSURE IN A HISTORICAL MIRROR

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Additional information

GOR013884182
9780520291058
0520291050
Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror by Gary Fields
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
2017-09-05
424
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