Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone

by Gil Z. Hochberg

Book Overview

In Visual Occupations Gil Z. Hochberg shows how the Israeli Occupation of Palestine is driven by the unequal access to visual rights, or the right to control what can be seen, how, and from which position. Israel maintains this unequal balance by erasing the history and denying the existence of Palestinians, and by carefully concealing its own militarization. Israeli surveillance of Palestinians, combined with the militarized gaze of Israeli...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822359014
• ISBN13: 9780822359012
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"