Kotef Movement and the Ordering of Freedom

On Liberal Governances of Mobility
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7575-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

Examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kotef, Hagar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine / Hagar Kotef and Merav Amir 27

2. An Interlude: A Tale of Two Roads—On Freedom and Movement 52

3. The Fence That "Ill Deserves the Name of Confinement": Locomotion and the Liberal Body 61

4. The Problem of "Excessive" Movement 87

5. The "Substance and Meaning of All Things Political": On Other Bodies 112

Conclusion 136

Notes 141

Bibliography 203

Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

Hagar Kotef is based at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University.