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1st ed.

Malden : Basil Blackwell, 2005

xix,367 s. : il., mapy

ISBN 1-5771-8090-9 (brož.)

Obsahuje černobílé fotografie, mapky, předmluvu, poznámky, rejstřík

Bibliografie na s. 352-357

Blízký východ - Spojené státy americké - vztahy zahraniční - studie

Spojené státy americké - Blízký východ - vztahy zahraniční - studie

Spojené státy americké - válka proti terorismu, 2001- - studie

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“This is a great book. An impassioned plea by one of the world’s most eminent geographers to displace the distorted imaginative geographies that have so corrupted our representations of the Islamic world with a geographical imagination that enlarges and enhances our understandings. The long historical geography of the colonial encounter in the Middle East is here laid bare in all its twisted detail in order to comprehend the fractures underpinning contemporary political impasses in Palestine, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The Colonial Present is a ‘must read’ for all those concerned for peace and justice in our time.” // David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism // “Brilliandy condenses the multiple geographies of colonialism ... so that their contemporary entanglements with the flexings of modern imperial power crackle with intensity. Using September 11, 2001 as a political fulcrum, Gregory traces the searing effects of fluid but durable cartographies of violence in the intersecting wars in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq.” // Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of New York // “Powerfully and persuasively argued. Passionately written. A daring, brilliant analysis ... Quite simply the most significant book written by a geographer in some time.” // Allan Pred, University of California, Berkeley // In this powerful and passionate critique of the “war on terror” in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American

involvements in the Middle East. He argues that the attacks on the Wforld Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that mapped a profoundly colonial perimeter of power. The Colonial Present traces the connections between political, military, and economic power - the grand strategies of geopolitics - and the spatial stories told by the lives of ordinary people. It also shows the intimate connections between events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq. Packed with empirical detail, and shot through with arresting arguments, The Colonial Present is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand a world riven by a war on terror that is also a war <f terror. // Derek Gregory is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. // Cover illustration: Northern Iraqi Kurds look out of a window of their house adorned with doves in a village near Erbil, Iraq. The painting was part of the Peace Winds japan 2001 Arts for Peace Project in which various artists painted local buildings with symbols of peace. Photo © Mario Tama/GETTY IMAGES. // Cover design by GD Associates Ltd // CURRENT EVENTS • POLITICS • GEOGRAPHY // ISBN cI7fl-l-S771fl-Gc1G-b // Visit our website at www.blac!cwellpublishing.com // Blackwell // Publishing // 9 // Contents // List of Figures xi // Preface xiii // Acknowledgments xvi // 1 The Colonial Present 1 // Foucault’s Laughter 1 // The

Present Tense 5 // 2 Architectures of Enmity 17 // Imaginative Geographies 17 // “Why do they hate us?” 20 // September 11 24 // 3 “The Land where Red Tulips Grew” 30 // Great Games 30 // Uncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism 36 // The Sorcerer’s Apprentices 44 // 4 “Civilization” and “Barbarism” 47 // The Visible and the Invisible 47 // Territorialization, Targets, and Technoculture 49 // Deadly Messengers 56 // Spaces of the Exception 62 // Deconstruction 72 // 5 Barbed Boundaries 76 // America’s Israel 76 // Diaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster 78 // Occupation, Coercion, and Colonization 89 // x Contents // Compliant Cartographies 95 // Camp David and Goliath 102 // 6 Defiled Cities 107 // Ground Zeros 107 // Besieging Cartographies 117 // Identities and Oppositions 138 // 7 The Tyranny of Strangers 144 // “Not as conquerors or enemies . .145 Coups and Conflicts 151 // Desert Storms and Urban Nightmares 156 // 8 Boundless War 180 // Black September 180 // Killing Grounds 197 // The Cutting-Room War 214 // 9 Gravity’s Rainbows 248 // Connective Dissonance 248 // The Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel 256 // Pandora’s Spaces 258 // Notes // Guide to Further Reading Index // 263 // 352 // 359