The politics of the west bank wall: Symbolic violence and spaciocide

The Politics of Making

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 25-35

  Piquard, Brigitte ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77957111903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203759332     Document Type: Chapter

References (24)

1. Elie Hourani, The International Court and the Wall: an Alternative Road Map. Electronic Intifada, 30 October 2004. Online, available at: www.vtjp.org/back-ground/wallreport9.htm (accessed 30 October 2006)
2. Marshal Berman and Bogdan Bogdanovitch developed the term –urbicide—. Berman, a professor at Columbia University, used –urbicide— for the first time in 1987 in order to name the mass destruction of his childhood district of the Bronx that he declared to be –the greatest recent ruins today outside Beirut— (Marshal Berman, Among the ruins. New Internationalist 178, December 1987). Online, available at: www.newint.org/issue178/among.htm (accessed 30 October 2006).
3. Stephen Graham, Clear Territory: Urbicide in the West Bank. Online, available at: www.open-democracy.net/conflict-politicsverticality/article_241.jsp#3 (accessed 30 October 2006).
4. Sari Hanafi, Spacio-cide and Bio-politics; the Israeli Colonial Project from 1947 to the Wall, in Michael Sorkin (ed.), Against the Wall: Israel’s Barrier to Peace, (New York: The New Press, 2005).
5. Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir, –The Monster’s Tail—, in Michael Sorkin (ed.), Against the Wall, p. 14.
6. Noam Chomsky, A Wall as a Weapon, New York Times, 23 February 2004. Available online at: www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/opinion/23CHOM.html?ex=13928724008ten=1a2dc8d5965a1d5f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (accessed 7 September 2006).
7. Pierre Bourdieu, Le sens pratique, Paris: Minuit, 1980, p. 219.
8. Brigitte Piquard and Cédric Petiau, La Culture de guerre: terreau de la violence politique, in Le terrorisme, un outil pour mieux comprendre, CD-ROM, CNAPD, Brussels, 2004.
9. François Thual, Les conflits identitaires, Paris: Ellipses, p. 45.
10. Blessed are the Olives: Voices of Palestinian Women Under Siege, Bethlehem, 2004
11. Sharon Rotbard, –Wall and Tower (Homa Umigdal), the Mold of Israeli Architecture—, in Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman, A Civilian Occupation: the Politics of Israeli Architecture. Tel Aviv: Babel & Verso, 2003, pp. 39–56.
12. Homa Umigdal project was initiated in 1936 by the members of Kibbutz Tel Amal. The objective was –to seize control of land officially purchased by the Israeli land's administration but which could not be settled mostly for security reasons— (Rotbard, –Wall and Tower—, p. 42).
13. Rotbard, “Wall and Tower”, p. 46.
14. Rotbard, “Wall and Tower”, p. 47
15. Azoulay, Ophir, “The Monster’s Tail”, p. 2.
16. Professor Sofer, a geography professor at Haifa University, has been advocating the –Arab demographic danger—, willing to avoid the –Arabisation— of Israel and the willingness to portray Israel in its –unity— (Yedioth Aharonoth, A Wall in their Heart). Online, available at: gush-shalom.org/archives/wall_yediot_eng.html (accessed 7 September 2006).
17. According to the 2004 Statistical Yearbook of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Arabs within Israel (without the OPT) represent 19 per cent of the population and 33 per cent of the population of Jerusalem. Online, available at: www.jiis.org.il/imageBank/File/shnaton_2004/shnaton_c0104.pdf (accessed 29 October 2006).
18. Rotbard, “Wall and Tower”, p. 46.
19. Azoulay, Ophir, “The Monster’s Tail”, p. 18.
20. Rotbard, “Wall and Tower”, p. 48.
21. An example of a virtual homeland is the newly created website, Palestine family net (www.palestine-family.net).
22. Those paintings and interviews have been published in a series of articles on the BBC News under the name “In Pictures: Picturing Israel’s Wall”. Online, available at: news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/middle_east_picturing_israel0s_wall/html/1.stm (accessed 7 September 2006)
23. BBC, “Picturing Israel’s Wall”, online.
24. BBC, “Picturing Israel’s Wall”, online.