This book deals with the contemporary history of the imprisonment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons since 1967, and, since the 2000s, in Palestinian facilities. The prison experience is widely shared in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It endurably marks personal and collective stories. Since the Occupation of the Palestinian Territories in 1967, mass incarceration has spun a prison web, a kind of suspended detention. Approximately, 40 percent of the male population has been to prison. It shows how the judicial and prison practices applied to Palestinian residents of the OPT are major fractal devices of control contributing to the management of Israeli borders, and shape a specific bordering system based on a mobility regime: such borders are mobile, networked, and endless. This history of confinement is that of the prison web, and of the in-between political, social, and personal spaces people weave between Inside and Outside prison. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, oral and written sources, archives, and extensive institutional documentation, this political anthropology book deals with carceral citizenships and subjectivities. Over time, imprisonment has had profound effects on personal experiences: on masculinities, femininities, gender relations, parentality, and intimacy. Woven like a web, this story is built around places, moments, people, and their testimonies.
Author(s): Stéphanie Latte Abdallah
Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 429
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Praise for A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison Web
Note on the Transcription of Arabic Terms
Web (n.)
Prologue
References
Contents
List of Maps
List of Tables
1 Inside the Military Courts
Al-Moscobiyeh, West Jerusalem, July 2016
Disorientation, Invisibility, and the System of Proof
The Prison Web, Networks, and Data Collection
Temporalities and Virtualities: Entering the Other World and Other Timeframe of the Military Courts
Spinning the Prison Web: A Vague, Atemporal, and Virtual Definition of Offenses
Controlling Time in Court
Performing the Law in a Colonial Context
The Trial of Khalida Jarrar. Act I
Using Military Law and Its Practices: Fighting Within the System
The Trial of Khalida Jarrar. Act II
References
2 Going to Prison
The Visit
Hadarim, July 28, 2016—Ramon, October 31, 2016. Detention in the Eyes of the Prison Service
Druze and Palestinian Citizens of Israel: The (Inter)Face of the Penal System
The Golan Druze. How Confinement Erases Borders
Carceral Interactions and Collective History. Circumventing the Political Management of Minorities in Israel
References
3 Inside/Outside Citizenships: Carceral Generations and the Frontiers of Political Action
From the Jordanian Prisons to the Generation of the Israeli Occupation (1967–1973)
Saad, Tarek, Radi, and the Others. The Prison Model and the World of Writing: The Prisoners’ Movement Generation (1974–1987)
The Repression and Politicization of Civilian Mobilizations in the Occupied Territories
The Prisoners’ Movement: The Carceral Structure of the National Movement
Abu George and Qaddura Farès. The Intifada Generation and the Politicization of the Hunger Strike (1988–1994)
Protest Beyond Walls. The Massification and Violence of Imprisonment
The Hunger Strike as a Test. Act I
Hassan and Ahmad. Oslo, a Generation in the Shadows (1994–1999)
The Marginalization of the Prisoners
The Oslo Ruptures
The al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–2007). A New Prison Management: Working on Consciences and Subjectivities
The End of Borders
2004. The Hunger Strike as a Test. Act II. The Fractalization of Control and Fragmenting of the Collective
Isolating Prisoners, Individualizing Daily Life, Breaking Prison Culture: Toward a Neoliberal Subjectivation
Tamer, Firas, and Sami. The al-Aqsa Generation and the Next: In-betweenness and the World of Networks Beyond Walls
Political Ruptures and Fragmentation
Porosity and the World of Networks
References
4 Women, a Separate Experience?
Distinct Carceral Generations
Inside/Outside Struggles: All-Female Spaces and Feminism
Armed Struggle: Protection Versus Victimization, Asserting Agency
Bodies, Violence, and Carceral Femininities
Itaf Alyan’s Hair Salon, Clock Square, Ramallah
Female Models and Leadership
References
5 After Oslo: The Endless Dematerialized Borders of the Prison Web
Controlling Movement and the Nation’s Networked Borders Through Confinement
The Ethnicization of the Penal System
Sentences and Mobility Regime. A Temporal, Individualized Border: To Each Their Own
The Criminalization of Mobility
Off-Loading the Cost of the All-Out Carceral. The Neoliberal Political Economy of the Penal System
The Monetarization of the Judiciary and the Prison Business
Extortion and Politics: Qatar Charity on Trial
Neoliberal Reforms and the Externalization of the Prison Web
References
6 Inside/Outside Carceral Citizenships: Post-second Intifada Mobilizations and Politics
The Return of Prison as a Political Site?
The Prisoners’ Document: An End to Fragmentation
The Prison Alternative? Marwan Barghouti
The Prison Experience Compromised: Intra-Palestinian Detention
The Ministry of the Interior, Ramallah, May 31, 2016
Security Cooperation, Controlling the Resistance, and the Hamas/Fatah Conflict
Muzzling Opposition, Asserting Power
Representing the Sacred Prisoners’ Cause
The PA: Social Questions and Maintaining a Contested National Role
Hamas: Securing Prisoner Releases
The Progressive Factionalization of the Prisoners’ Cause
The Carceral Front in Opposition to the PA
Hunger Strikes as a Political Test. Acts III and IV: Unitary Strikes, the Return of the Prisoners’ Movement?
Federating Struggles Inside and Outside: “The Real Leaders Are in Prison”
References
7 The Incorporated Prison: Living Beyond Detention
Ramallah, the Night of October 25–26, 2016
Carceral Subjectivities
Heroic Subjectivation, Fiction, and Incorporation
Carceral Masculinities and Gender
Public Intimacies
Impossible Intimacy
Extended Parentality and Prison Couples: Common Experiences
Living Apart and the Technologization of Ties
References
8 The Incorporated Prison: Release?
Kufr ‘Aqab, East Jerusalem, October 22, 2011
Prisonerhood
“We Are the Children of Prison”
Parallel Time
Traces of Detention: The World After
Prisoners’ Families and the Carceral Continuum
Trajectories Outside
Prison, A Marred Existence
Beer-Sheva District Court, July 14, 2016
Other Confinements: Social Tensions and the Carceral Possibility
Carceral “Madness” and Scars
References
Bibliography
Index
