Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power

Elia Zureik · David Lyon · Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Dec 2010 · Routledge

About this ebook

Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This book examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in Israel and the Occupied Territories, showing how they operate, how well they work, how they are augmented, and how in the end their chief purpose is population control.

Showing how what might be regarded as exceptional elsewhere is here regarded as the norm, the book looks not only at the political economy of surveillance and its technological and military dimensions, but also at the ordinary ways that Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories are affected in their everyday lives. Written in a clear and accessible style by experts in the field, this book will have large appeal for academic faculty as well as graduate and senior undergraduate students in sociology, political science, international relations, surveillance studies and Middle East studies.

About the author

Elia Zureik is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. His published work covers the Middle East, with special reference to the Israeli--Palestinian conflict, and surveillance.

David Lyon is Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Canada. He is the author of Surveillance Studies: An Overview (2007) and Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Citizenship (2009), and is currently researching the global growth of national ID systems.

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Associate Chair (Research) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. She specializes in the politics of gender, racialization, migration and citizenship. She is co-author of Selling Diversity (2002), co-editor of Politics in North America (2008), and editor of Gendering the Nation-State (2008).