Alongside their explicitly genocidal utterances since October, 2023, Israeli officials have repeatedly emphasized that the State’s military assault on Gaza is not directed at Gaza’s civilians but is instead a defensive war against Hamas. Gaza’s own journalists, however, have broadcast n..
Gary Fields
Gary Fields is a specialist in historical geography with a focus on the interplay of landscape and power in comparative historical settings. His first book, Territories of Profit (Stanford University Press, 2004), reveals how the capitalist business firm reshapes the economic and physical landscape in order to exploit the innovative potential of communications revolutions and make profit differently. His recent book, Enclosure (University of California Press, 2017) compares the fragmented landscape in Palestine to the landscapes of dispossession during the early modern enclosures in England and the Anglo-American colonial frontier.