The colonial present : Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq

Abstract

List of Figures.Preface.Acknowledgments.Part 1: The Colonial Present:.1.1 Foucault's Laughter.1.2 The Present Tense.Part 2: Architectures of Enmity:.2.1 Imaginative Geographies.2.2 Why do they hate us?.2.3 September 11.Part 3: The Land Where Red Tulips Grew:.3.1 Great Games.3.2 Uncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism.3.3 The Sorcerer's Apprentices.Part 4 Civilization and Barbarism:.4.1 The Visible and the Invisible.4.2 Territorialization, Targets, and Technoculture.4.3 Deadly Messengers.4.4 Spaces of the Exception.4.5 Deconstructions.Part 5 Barbed Boundaries:.5.1 America's Israel.5.2 Diaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster.5.3 Occupation, Coercion, and Colonization.5.4 Camp David and Goliath.Part 6: Defiled Cities:.6.1 Ground Zeros.6.2 Besieging Cartographies.6.3 Identities and Oppositions.Part 7: The Tyranny of Strangers:.7.1 Not as conquerors or enemies....7.2 Coups and Conflicts.7.3 Desert Storms and Urban Nightmares.Part 8: Boundless War:.8.1 Black September.8.2 Killing Grounds.8.3 The Cutting-room War.Part 9: Gravity's Rainbows:.9.1 Connective Dissonance.9.2 The Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel.9.3 Pandora's Spaces.Guide to Further Reading.Index