Military Occupation as Carceral Society Prisons, Checkpoints, and Walls in the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle

Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have been subject to increasing confinement, starting with prisons in the 1970s and 1980s and growing into a regime of checkpoints and walls that encircle entire towns and villages. After a historical review of the incremental stages of this incarceration, th...

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Published inSocial analysis Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 106 - 130
Main Author Bornstein, Avram
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Berghahn Journals 01.07.2008
Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books, Inc
Subjects
Analysis
Arab Israeli Relations
Arab-Israeli conflict
Architecture
Armed forces
Banks
Conflict
Diaspora
Economic aspects
Electronic security systems
Foreign occupation
Group identity
Human rights
Human security
Imprisonment
Iraq
Iraq War-2003
Israel
Jews
Military
Military aspects
Military Occupation
Military occupations
Occupations
Occupied territories
Palestinian Authority
Palestinian people
Palestinians
Prisoners of war
Prisons
Security systems
Social aspects
Soldiers
Territoriality
Terrorism
Torture
U.S.A
United States of America
Villages
Violence
War
United States
Israel
New York
Gaza Strip
West Bank
United States > US
Iraq
Jerusalem Israel
walls
identity
prisons
checkpoints
occupied territories
Israel-Palestine
resistance
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Summary:Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have been subject to increasing confinement, starting with prisons in the 1970s and 1980s and growing into a regime of checkpoints and walls that encircle entire towns and villages. After a historical review of the incremental stages of this incarceration, the article examines the overall impact of prisons, checkpoints, and walls, based on observations garnered from more than a dozen research trips over two decades and a review of research by others. Although these architectures are built and used in the name of security, findings show that mass imprisonment debilitates the Palestinian economy, forcing Palestinians to flee or resist. The final section compares the Israeli carceralization of the Occupied Territories to the US occupation of Iraq, suggesting that similar, albeit more violent, processes are underway.
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ISSN:0155-977X
1558-5727
DOI:10.3167/sa.2008.520207