{"product_id":"the-colonial-present-isbn-9781577180906","title":"The Colonial Present","description":"In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power continues to cast long shadows over our own present.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that were profoundly colonial in nature.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first analysis of the “war on terror” to connect events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the connections between geopolitics and the lives of ordinary people.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRichly illustrated and packed with empirical detail.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Colonial Present 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFoucault’s Laughter 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Present Tense 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Architectures of Enmity 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImaginative Geographies 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Why do they hate us?” 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeptember 11 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 “The Land where Red Tulips Grew” 30\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreat Games 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sorcerer’s Apprentices 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 “Civilization” and “Barbarism” 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Visible and the Invisible 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerritorialization, Targets, and Technoculture 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeadly Messengers 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpaces of the Exception 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeconstruction 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Barbed Boundaries 76\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerica’s Israel 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOccupation, Coercion, and Colonization 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompliant Cartographies 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCamp David and Goliath 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Defiled Cities 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGround Zeros 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBesieging Cartographies 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentities and Oppositions 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Tyranny of Strangers 144\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Not as conquerors or enemies . . .” 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoups and Conflicts 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesert Storms and Urban Nightmares 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Boundless War 180\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack September 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKilling Grounds 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cutting-Room War 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Gravity’s Rainbows 248\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConnective Dissonance 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePandora’s Spaces 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuide to Further Reading 352\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 359\u003c\/p\u003e  “This is a great book. 'Gregory has written a book entwining global geography with social danger. \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e takes us through the contemporary wars in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories and Iraq as connected projects of imperial ambition... \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshingly angry book, with all the geographical and historical scholarship to buttress its indictment of American, Israeli and British behavior around the world. It is exquisitely written... This book's screaming truths are must-read heresy.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeil Smith, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eColonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e is a ‘must read’ for all those concerned for peace and justice in our time.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Harvey, author of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The originality and profundity of Derek Gregory's \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e puts it at the top of my list.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton; author most recently of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Great Terror War (2003)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Brilliantly 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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCindi Katz, Graduate Centre,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Powerfully and persuasively argued. Passionately written. A daring, brilliant analysis … Quite simply the most significant book written by a geographer in some time.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAllan Pred,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCalifornia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBerkeley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e marshals concepts of imaginative geography and insight from the spatialisation of cultural and social theory developed in the past thirty years … An impassioned but theoretically rich critique of the ‘war on terror’ and the wider Zeitgeist that it shapes and embodies … Crucially, the book is a compelling critique of and American Empire … This is a significant book … Vintage Gregory again; enticing and provoking his audience … There is no doubting that \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e sets both standards and agendas.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEnvironment and Planning D\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Colonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and politiclly engaged book.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDerek Gregory\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 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 World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that mapped a profoundly colonial perimeter of power. \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Present\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand a world riven by a war on terror that is also a war of terror.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990190375141,"sku":"NP9781577180906","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781577180906.jpg?v=1761786851","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-colonial-present-isbn-9781577180906","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}