Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine

Elia Zureik is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. His published work covers the Middle East, with special reference to the Israeli--Palestinian conflict, and surveillance. David Lyon is Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Canada. He is the author of Surveillance Studies: An Overview (2007) and Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Citizenship (2009), and is currently researching the global growth of national ID systems.Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Associate Chair (Research) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. She specializes in the politics of gender, racialization, migration and citizenship. She is co-author of Selling Diversity (2002), co-editor of Politics in North America (2008), and editor of Gendering the Nation-State (2008).

"This stimulating edited collection is a valuable contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship that takes Israel’s over forty-year occupation regime as its central object of analysis, research, and comparative theoretical reflection... this important volume provides a sound basis for further comparative studies in the technologies of power that are transforming the globe at this time."- Steve Niva; Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Autumn 2011)

• Preface Part 1: Introduction 1. Colonialism, Surveillance and Population Control: Israel/Palestine Part 2: Theories of Surveillance in Conflict Zones 2. Identification, Colonialism and Control: Surveillant Sorting in Israel/Palestine 3. Making Place for the Palestinians in the Altneuland: Herzl, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish State Part 3: Civilian Surveillance 4. Ominous Designs: Israel’s Strategies and Tactics of Controlling the Palestinians during the First Two Decades 5. The Matrix of Surveillance in Times of National Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Case 6. The Changing Patterns of Disciplining Palestinian National Memory in Israel Part 4: Political Economy and Globalization of Surveillance 7. Laboratories of War: Surveillance and US-Israeli Collaboration in War and Security 8. Israel’s Emergence as a Homeland Security Capital 9. From Tanks to Wheelchairs: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Zionist Battlefield Experiments, and the Transparency of the Civilian Part 5: Citizenship Criteria and State Construction 10. Legal Analysis and Critique of Some Surveillance Methods Used by Israel 11. Orange, Green, and Blue: Colour-Coded Paperwork for Palestinian Population Control 12. "You Must Know Your Stock": Census as Surveillance Practice in 1948 and 1967 Part 6: Surveillance, Racialization, and Uncertainty 13. Exclusionary Surveillance and Spatial Uncertainty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 14. "Israelization" of Social Sorting and the "Palestinianization" of the Racial Contract: Reframing Israel/Palestine and The War on Terror Part 7: Territory and Population Management in Conflict Zones 15. British and Zionist Data Gathering on Palestinian Arab Land Ownership and Population during the Mandate 16. Surveillance and Spatial Flows in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 17. Territorial Dispossession and Population Control of the Palestinians Part 8: Social Ordering, Biopolitics and Profiling 18. The Palestinian Authority Security Apparatus: Biopolitics, Surveillance and Resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 19. Behavioural Profiling in Israeli Aviation Security as a Tool for Social Control