The conflict shoreline : colonization as climate change in the Negev Desert /
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| Author / Creator: | Weizman, Eyal, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, in association with Cabinet Books, Brooklyn, 2015. |
| Description: | 92 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10767808 |
| Summary: | The village of al-'Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than 70 times in the ongoing "Battle over the Negev"--the Israeli state campaign to uproot the Palestinian Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during the Palestine conflict, this one is not demarcated by fences and walls but by shifting climatic conditions. The threshold of the desert advances and recedes in response to colonization, cultivation, displacement, urbanization and, most recently, climate change. In his response to Sheikh's Desert Bloom series, Israeli intellectual and architect Eyal Weizman's essay incorporates historical aerial photographs, contemporary remote sensing data, state plans, court testimonies and 19th-century travelers' accounts, exploring the Negev's threshold as a "shoreline" along which climate change and political conflict are entangled. |
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| Physical Description: | 92 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-92). |
| ISBN: | 9783869309927 386930992X |
