Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance and Political Control Towards the Palestinian Minority

Author:   Ahmad Sa'di ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9781784991111


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 January 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance and Political Control Towards the Palestinian Minority


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Widely regarded as expert in techniques of surveillance and political control, Israel has been successful in controlling a native population for a long time. Despite tremendous challenges, it has maintained a tight grip over a large Palestinian population in the territories it occupied in the 1967 war. Moreover, it has effectively contained the Palestinian minority inside its 1948 borders. Although members of the latter group were granted Israeli citizenship, various policies have blocked them from challenging the state's Jewish identity. Israel's continued administration of a large Palestinian population into the twenty-first century represents a serious challenge for scholars and theorists of colonial forms of political control. Relying on hitherto unpublished archival material, this book traces the genesis of Israeli policies and tactics of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinians. It identifies the principal architects of these strategies, discusses their approaches, summarises their discussions and traces the implementations of these policies and their impact on the everyday lives of Palestinians. -- .

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Author:   Ahmad Sa'di ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781784991111


ISBN 10:   1784991112
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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In this revealing documentary analysis of surveillance of Palestinians in Israel, Ahmad Sa'di achieves what few others have; a long-term view of a multi-faceted surveillance assemblage as it touches ordinary people going about their everyday lives. The calm, careful tone contrasts with the actual context of systematic disadvantage and deprivation within a purportedly democratic context. Concepts of control through categorization social sorting come to life in ways that are tellingly tragic. Sa'di chillingly describes one way of dealing with minorities in the modern world and hints at some hopeful alternatives. -- David Lyon, Queen's University Should anyone ever think to continue to doubt or deny the Israeli state's investment in and mobilization of a systematic, carefully planned, long term discrimination, dispossession and humiliation of its Palestine population, Ahmad Sa'di's book should eviscerate any such notion. His measured, conceptually fine-grained, and meticulous analysis makes no room for empty accusations. Based on unassailable evidence of documents, names, places and dates, Sa'di calls us on all to bear witness to the making of a sophisticated system of colonial surveillance in its formation in the 1940s through to its present active mode today state orchestrated, and deliberately designed. -- Ann Laura Stoler, The New School for Social Research This ambitious and careful study will appeal to anyone interested in the history and theory of colonial control. Digging through the archives of the Israeli state, Sa'di uncovers the forms of surveillance, classification, information gathering and control with which the newly established state sought to discipline and govern its Palestinian citizens. The book brings to light the rationale that informed the methods of knowing and working upon a subject population. At the same time, it reveals the increasing frustration among 'Arabists' and other experts with the inability of these methods to prevent the gradual reassertion of the Palestinian claim to justice. -- Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University Ahmed Sa'di's excellent treatise commences with a reminder that Israel has extended the existence of colonialism far beyond its alleged demise. -- Ramona Wadi, Middle East Monitor, 2014


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Ahmad H. Sa'di is Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev -- .

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