Join us for a presentation about Gary Fields’ new book project Imprisoned: Voices and Images from Confinement Landscapes in Palestine chaired by Nadia Abu El-Haj.

LOCATION
Knox Hall 207
606 W 122 Street
New York, NY 10027

This presentation focuses on a new book project entitled, Imprisoned: Voices and Images from Confinement Landscapes in Palestine.  A work in progress, Imprisoned is a detailed investigation into a vanishing Palestinian landscape that is disappearing under the onslaught of an expanding landscape of colonization and settlement imposed on the land by the State of Israel.  As the Palestinian landscape disappears under the footprint of Israeli colonization and settlement, the geographical spaces remaining for Palestinians in which to reside, work, and circulate contract leaving behind what the book argues are “confinement landscapes.” Enlisting a thickly descriptive ethnography, alongside photographic images taken by the author, this presentation reveals the lived experience of three individuals confronted by confinement in three different Palestinian locales, framed by broader theoretical issues of settler colonialism and the interplay of landscapes and power.

SPEAKERS

Gary Fields is a Professor in the Department of Communication and an affiliate in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego.  Formally trained in historical geography, he is the author of Enclosure:  Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror (2017, University of California Press), and “Lockdown:  Gaza Through a Camera Lens and Historical Mirror” (2020, Journal of Palestine Studies). 

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies.