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100	1		_aLisa Bhungalia
245	1	0	_aElastic Empire: _bRefashioning War through Aid in Palestine
264		1	_aStanford: _bStanford University Press, _c2024
300			_a277 p., _bill.; _c24 cm
490	0		_aStanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWar through law -- Elastic sovereignty -- Work of the list -- Afterlives and reverberations -- Asphixiatory violence.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAmerican economic assistance _xPolitical aspects _zPalestine
650		0	_aAid _zWest Bank _zGaza Strip _zPalestine _zUnited States of America
650		0	_a"War on Terror" _xLaw and legislation _zUnited States
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _zPalestine
651		0	_aPalestine _xForeign relations _zUnited States
830		0	_aStanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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