BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32348@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240229T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240229T163000 DTSTAMP:20240228T193610Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/elastic-empire-refashioning-war-thr ough-aid-in-palestine/ SUMMARY:Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine DESCRIPTION:Hybrid.\n\nElastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Pale stine\n\nLink to book on publisher's site: https://www.sup.org/books/titl e/?id=30769\n\nThe United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of t he global war on terror. Some two decades later\, this securitized model o f aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine. Elast ic Empire traces how foreign aid\, on which much of the Palestinian popul ation is dependent\, has multiplied the sites and means through which Pale stinian life is regulated\, surveilled\, and policed—this book tells the story of how aid has also become war.\n\n \;\n\nDrawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine\, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks\ , grenades\, and guns\, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life—in a green house and library\, in the collection of personal information and mapping of land plots\, in the halls of municipal councils and in local elections —and indelibly transfigures lives. Situated in a landscape where the lin es between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly b lurred\, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations\, their realignments and reformulations\, their haunte d sites\, and their obscured but intimate forms.\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n\n Dr. Lisa Bhungalia is a political geographer researching late-modern war\ , law\, empire\, and transnational linkages between the US and Southwest A sian and North African region. Forthcoming from Stanford University Press\ , her book\, Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine\, e xamines the entanglements of aid\, law\, and war in Palestine with attenti on to the policing and surveillance regimes produced through the embedding of counterterrorism laws and infrastructures into civilian aid flows. She is also currently developing new research on the social lives of terroris m databases. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Le arned Societies\, National Science Foundation\, and Palestinian American R esearch Center\, among other bodies\, and her published work has appeared in Politics and Space\, Political Geography\, Geopolitics\, Small Wars &am p\; Insurgencies\, Society and Space\, Environment and Planning A\, Middle East Report\, and Jadaliyya\, among other venues.\n\n \n\nDr. Illana Fel dman Professor Feldman is a cultural and historical anthropologist who wo rks in the Middle East. Her research has focused on the Palestinian experi ence\, both inside and outside of historic Palestine\, examining practices of government\, humanitarianism\, policing\, displacement\, and citizensh ip.She has conducted ethnographic and archival research in Gaza\, the West Bank\, Jordan\, Lebanon\, and Egypt.\n\n\nBook description: The United St ates integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West B ank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Som e two decades later\, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine. Elastic Empire traces how foreig n aid\, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent\, has mul tiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated\, surveilled\, and policed—this book tells the story of how aid has also b ecome war.\n\nDrawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine\, Elas tic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks\, grenades\, and guns\, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infra structures of daily life—in a greenhouse and library\, in the collection of personal information and mapping of land plots\, in the halls of munic ipal councils and in local elections—and indelibly transfigures lives. S ituated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the glo bal war on terror are increasingly blurred\, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations\, their realignm ents and reformulations\, their haunted sites\, and their obscured but int imate forms.\n\nFebruary 29\, 2024 3:00p-4:30p\n\nHybrid Zoom/ 1957 E st. NW Washington\, DC 20052 Room 505 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-28-at-2.33.12-PM.png CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lecture LOCATION:pin Elliott School of International Affairs\, George Washington Un iversity\, 1957 E St\, NW 501 Conference Room\, Washington\, DC\, United S tates GEO:38.8962277;-77.04395720000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1957 E St\, NW 501 Conferen ce Room\, Washington\, DC\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=pin E lliott School of International Affairs\, George Washington University:geo: 38.8962277,-77.04395720000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR