{"product_id":"hollow-land-eyal-weizman","title":"Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation – Eyal Weizman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and UK \u003c\/span\u003eonly.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-product-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"metafield-rich_text_field\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew edition of the hugely influential exploration of the infrastructure and architecture of Israel’s colonial occupation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation of Palestinian towns, villages and roads into an artifice where all natural and built features serve military ends. Weizman traces the development of this strategy, from the influence of archaeology on urban planning, Ariel Sharon’s reconceptualization of military defence during the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the settlements, to the contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urban warfare and airborne targeted assassinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHollow Land\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003elays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"The most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in years.\"\u003cbr\u003eEdwin Heathcote,  Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-product-reviews__button-frame\" data-ref=\"frame\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A masterpiece of political analysis.\"\u003cbr\u003eJames Ron,  The Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Eyal Weizman has taken Edward Said’s thesis to a new level, generating extraordinary, and at times surreally uncomfortable, conclusions...Weizman’s book is of salutary interest.\"\u003cbr\u003eJay Merrick,  Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Weizman takes his readers on a tour of the visible and invisible ways in which Israel implements its control over Palestinians ... Hollow Land is eloquent about the architectural chaos and confusion created by Israel in the Occupied Territories.\"\u003cbr\u003eYonatan Mendel,  London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A passionate jeremiad.\"\u003cbr\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Eyal Weizman brilliantly deconstructs Israel’s yoking of traditionally humanist disciplines and discourse to the service of its campaign against the Palestinians. This book is chilling but essential reading.\"\u003cbr\u003eAhdaf Soueif\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hollow Land is a remarkably original work that confirms Eyal Weizman’s indispensable role as a critic of the sinister and ubiquitous instrumentality of space in contemporary politics and life.\"\u003cbr\u003eMichael Sorkin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hollow Land is a remarkable achievement. Scholarly and poetic in its epic reach, and narrated with the clarity of vision and sensibility of an artist, Hollow Land is destined to become a classic.\"\u003cbr\u003eKarma Nabulsi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A startling exercise in what it means to think through the axiomatics of occupation, capture and subjection ... Weizman boldly attempts to create an entirely new method to conceptualize the relationship between surfaces, movement, and the tools of war.\"\u003cbr\u003eAchille Mbembe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A wrenching account of the multiple ways in which the land of Palestine has been hollowed out by Israeli occupation. Weizman’s stunning combination of words and images is at once a brilliant critique of the politics of space and a searing indictment of colonial rule and dispossession.\"\u003cbr\u003eDerek Gregory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The author examines the construction of Israel’s militarized settlement enterprise from the perspective of urban planning, positing that the displacement of Palestinians has been engineered from a spatial perspective….Weizman is well positioned to carry out such an investigation. He is an Israeli architect and professor of spatial and visual cultures, and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Weizman is also a Princeton Global Scholar. In the decade since his book came out, Weizmann established the Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) in Beit Sahour, Palestine.The establishment of DAAR and its success highlight the tremendous impact Weizmann’s work has had since its release. Hollow Land builds upon increasing attentiveness to urban space and architecture in the social sciences, and its release is to an extent responsible for tremendous growth in this field of study.\"\u003cbr\u003eAlex Shams,  Journal of Palestinian Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/  Verso \/ \u003cspan\u003e368 pages \/ October 2024 \/ 9781804297100\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40917665480789,"sku":null,"price":56.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0006\/7554\/5141\/files\/83380.jpg?v=1730203690","url":"https:\/\/shop.workingclasshistory.com\/en-nz\/products\/hollow-land-eyal-weizman","provider":"Working Class History | Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}