Charles Anderson
Western Washington University, History, Faculty Member
- Middle East Studies, Israel/Palestine, Social Movements, Middle East History, Middle East Politics, Palestine, and 23 morePalestinian Studies, Social movements and revolution, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Modern Middle East History, Settler Colonial Studies, Political Economy, Colonialism, Imperialism, Colonialism and Imperialism, Peasant Studies, Peasant Movements, Peasant History, History of Palestine and Israel, Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel Studies, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Anticolonialism, Postcolonial and Anticolonial Studies, Arab Spring (Arab Revolts), Nationalism, Insurgency, Insurgency and counterinsurgency, and Social Historyedit
Research Interests: Middle East History, Peasant Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Israel/Palestine, Colonialism, and 15 morePalestine, Insurgency/Counterinsurgency(COIN), Modern Middle East History, Middle Eastern Studies, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Racialization, History of the Modern Middle East, Counterinsurgency, Middle East, Imperialism, Palestinian Studies, Anti-Colonialism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian Nationalism, and Peasant Movements
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Research Interests: History, Social Movements, Middle East Studies, Middle East History, Peasant Studies, and 15 moreRevolutions, State Formation, Nationalism, Israel/Palestine, Colonialism, State Formation and Sovereignty in Middle East, Insurgency/Counterinsurgency(COIN), Middle Eastern Studies, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Social movements and revolution, Interwar Period History, British Imperialism, History of the Modern Middle East, Insurgency, and Anticolonialism
Research Interests: Political Economy, Development Studies, Middle East Studies, Middle East History, Peasant Studies, and 20 moreRural History, Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Mandate Studies, Rural Development, Middle Eastern Studies, British Empire, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Interwar Period History, History of Palestine and Israel, British Mandate, Palestine, Palestinian Studies, Levant, Landlessness, Mandate Palestine, Peasant History, Interwar period, 1919 - 1939, Anticolonialism, Peasants Revolt, and Peasant Rights
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Research Interests: History, Social Movements, Political Economy, Middle East Studies, Middle East History, and 31 morePeasant Studies, Imperial History, Nationalism, Israel/Palestine, Colonialism, Palestine, National Identity, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Social History, Social movements and revolution, British Imperialism, Settler Colonial Studies, Insurgency, Israel-Palestine, Orientalism, History of Palestine and Israel, Settler Colonialism & Its Legacies, Imperialism, British Mandate, Palestine, Palestinian Studies, Settler colonialism, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Peasant History, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Anticolonialism, Peasant Movements, National and Social Movements, Postcolonial and Anticolonial Studies, History of Israel Palestine Conflict, Colonialism and Imperialism, and Insurgency and counterinsurgency
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Research Interests: Economic History, International Relations, Middle East Studies, Middle East History, Israel/Palestine, and 8 morePalestine, Social History, History of Middle Classes, History of Palestine and Israel, Palestinian Studies, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Politcal Economy, and History of Israel Palestine Conflict
Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine is a disquieting tour through myriad forms of surveillance directed at the Palestinians from the Mandate era to the present. Biometric monitoring, divided and racialized law, policing by both... more
Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine is a disquieting tour through myriad forms of surveillance directed at the Palestinians from the Mandate era to the present. Biometric monitoring, divided and racialized law, policing by both Israeli and Palestinian coercive apparatuses, and practices of cartographic fragmentation and enclosure that disrupt everyday time and movement are just some of the most prominent features of Palestine's peculiar landscape. In view of the sui generis character of recent Palestinian experience, new analytic terms and concepts have been forged to diagnose and describe its particularities: thus we have politicide (Baruch Kimmerling), spaciocide (Sari Hanafi), and " matrix of control " (Jeff Halper), alongside iterations of the older term " apartheid state. " Likewise, it has become commonplace for scholars to deploy theoretical constructs from Michel Foucault (chiefly the idea of biopolitics) and/or Giorgio Agamben (state of exception)—as do almost all nineteen chapters of Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine. As one of the editors, David Lyon, has argued, surveillance inscribed at the level of society is not merely a tool for resolving security dilemmas;