Open Gaza /
The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered envrionments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege, enforcing conditions that continue to plummet to ever more unimaginable depths of degradation and despair. Gaza, howe...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered envrionments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege, enforcing conditions that continue to plummet to ever more unimaginable depths of degradation and despair. Gaza, however, is more than an endless encyclopedia of depressing statistics. It is also a place of fortitude, resistance and imagination, a context in which inhabitants go to remarkable lengths to create the ordinary conditions of the everyday and to reject their exceptional status. Inspired by Gaza's inhabitants, this book builds on the positive capabilities of Gazans. It brings together environmentalists, planners, activists and scholars from Palestine and Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, India and elsewhere to create hopeful interventions that imagine a better place for Gazans and Palestinians. Open Gaza engages the Gaza Strip within and beyond the logics of siege and warfare, it considers how life can be improved inside the limitations imposed by the Israeli blockade, and outside the idiocy of violence and warfare. |
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| Item Description: | "Terreform" -- title page. |
| Physical Description: | 347 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781649030719 1649030711 |