TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lisa Bhungalia
TI  - Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
T2  - Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
SN  - 9781503637511
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - American economic assistance
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Aid
KW  - West Bank
KW  - Gaza Strip
KW  - United States of America
KW  - "War on Terror"
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; War through law -- Elastic sovereignty -- Work of the list -- Afterlives and reverberations -- Asphixiatory violence
N2  - "The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine. Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed--this book tells the story of how aid has also become war. Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks, grenades, and guns, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life--in a greenhouse and library, in the collection of personal information and mapping of land plots, in the halls of municipal councils and in local elections--and indelibly transfigures lives. Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms"--
ER  -