Authors

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.

ARTICLES BY Gary Fields

  • Genocide in Gaza — Never a ‘War Against Hamas’

    Genocide in Gaza — Never a ‘War Against Hamas’

    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..

  • 1984 is Now: Newspeak and the Denial of Genocide

    1984 is Now: Newspeak and the Denial of Genocide

    In late March, the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a report affirming what genocide scholars, reporters on the ground in Gaza, and nation-states at the International Court of Justice have argued for months about Israel’s war on the enclave:  the onslaught of Israel against the people ..

  • Nazis! The Fraught Politics of a Word and a People Besieged

    Nazis! The Fraught Politics of a Word and a People Besieged

    Like many highly-educated individuals in Palestine today, Mohammed Q. cannot find work in his field of computer engineering, despite a master’s degree in computer science from Birzeit University, and as a result he relies on the tourist industry to earn a living, drawing on his fluent English an..