TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
TI  - Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
T2  - Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
SN  - 9781503610897
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Refuse and refuse disposal
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - West Bank
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Israel-Arab War (1967)
KW  - Occupied territories
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-293) and index
N2  - "In 1995, with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Israel transferred responsibility for waste management in the West Bank to the nascent Palestinian government. While electricity, water, roads, and telecommunications remained largely controlled by Israel building new waste infrastructures and controlling the movements and effects of Palestinians' wastes became central to efforts to demonstrate the Authority's ability to be state-like. Waste Siege asks what is made possible, and what other ways of being are foreclosed, in the rubble, debris, and infrastructural fallout of decades of struggle to live a livable life among waste. Tracing Palestinians' own experiences of wastes over the past decade highlights the significance of the presence of multiple governing authorities in the West Bank-including municipalities, the Palestinian Authority, international aid organizations, NGOs, and political groups, as well as Israeli control-shows how all of these actors rule Palestinian lives by waste siege"--
ER  -