Waste siege : the life of infrastructure in Palestine

Waste siege : the life of infrastructure in Palestine /

"In 1995, with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Israel transferred responsibility for waste management in the West Bank to the nascent Palestinian government. While electricity, water, roads, and telecommunications remained largely controlled by Israel building new waste infrastr...

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Main Author: Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Series:Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Subjects:
Refuse and refuse disposal > Social aspects > West Bank.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Political aspects > West Bank.
Israel-Arab War, 1967 > Occupied territories.
West Bank > Social conditions.
West Bank > Politics and government.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on transliteration and translation
  • Map
  • Introduction
  • 1. Compression: how to make time at an occupied landfill
  • 2. Inundated: wanting used colonial goods
  • 3. Accumulation: toxicity and blame in a phantom state
  • 4. Gifted: unwanted bread and its stranger obligations
  • 5. Leakage: sewage and doublethink in a "shared environment"
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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