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SP ACE SI N GAZACAN BEF OUNDASMANYF ORMS, BORDE RS:OVE RL AND: NORT HOFGAZA E ASTOFGAZA SOUT HOFGAZA/RAF AH -COAST ALARE A//SE A -RE F UGE ECAMPS -WADIGAZA -E VACUAT E DSE T T L E ME NT S -CI T YCE NT E RS/SL UMS -NE W RE SI DE NT I AL‘ CI T I E S’e. gt heE mi r at ic i t y ,Shei khKhal i f ac i t y . . .
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ASE RI E SOFCASE ST UDYHOUSE SACCORDI NGT O DI F F E RE NTT YPOL OGI E S. T YPOL OGYXCOL ONI ALMAT RI X
I NVE ST I GAT I NGDWE L L I NGSASANOT I ON I NT HECI T Y ,I NT HERE L AT I ONT I ONSHI P WI T HSI T E S,E NVI RONME NT ALI SSUE S,POL I T I CALZONE S,ONCEWI T HSUBMI SSI ON T OT HECOL ONI ALMAT RI X,ANOT HE RWI T HOPPOSI T I ON T OI T ,ANDL AST L Y WI T HI NDI F F E RE NCET OI T(I NDI F F E RE NTI DE NT I T Y) .T HOSEDWE L L I NGSARE DE SI GNE DF ORT HEAVE RAGEUSE R.I NE ACHT YPOL OGY ,WEWI L L PRE SE NT3P ARADI GMSI N RE F E RE NCET OT HE I RRE L AT I ONSHI PWI T HT HE COL ONI ALMAT RI XASME NT I ONE DBE F ORE( SUBMI SSI ON, OPPOSI T I ON, ANDI NDI F F E RE NCE ) ,ANDCL ARI F YI NGT HEDI F F E RE NTOUT COMEOFE ACHCASE . T HECOL ONI ALMAT RI X:SE I GE ,SURVE I L L ANCE ,PSYHOL OGI CALWARE F ARE ,NE OL I BE RAL I SM E CONOMYOFDE AT H
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Works Cited Cook, J., 2012. Israel’s starvation diet for Gaza. [Online] Available at: https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-starvation-diet-gaza/11810 [Accessed 16 12 2016]. FOUCAULT, M., 1977-78. SECURITY, TERRITORY, POPULATION.. 2 ed. PARIS: PALGRAVE MCMILLAN. VISMANN, C., 2001. THE LOVE PF RUINS. PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE, 9(2), pp. 196-209. Weizman, E., 2012. The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza. 2 ed. NY: VersoBooks. P38 Leopold Lambert
Lambert, Léopold. (2012). WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE: A DISOBEDIENT PALESTINIAN BUILDING (2010). Available at: http://www.leopoldlambert.net/2014/12/08/a-disobedient-architecture-in-the-westbank/ [Accessed 19 Jan 2016]. P32 Le Corbusier’s Obus plan
Bartolacci, James. 2013. Rewind: Modernist Dreams Of Utopian Architecture. Available at: http://architizer.com/blog/modernist-utopian-architecture/ (Accessed 19 Jan 2016) P6 Eyal weizman Arquine Digital. (2012). Entrevista Eyal Weizman | 13 Congreso Arquine [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLpxtGEIidk [Accessed 17 Jan 2016]. Edited by author
P10+P11 Matrix Nassar, Emad. (2014). Destruction in Gaza. [image] Available at: http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/cease-fire-marks-end-to-israels-longestbloodiest-war-in-gaza/ Edited by author
P13 Siege
Lee, Robinson. (2011). Gaza - Lift the Blockade. [image] Available at: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/gaza-lift-the-blockad [Accessed 17 Jan 2016]. Edited by author P15 Surveillance General Atomics Aeronautical. (2010). DWELL.DETECT.DESTROY. [image] Available at: http://geographicalimaginations.com/tag/reaper/ Edited by author
[Accessed 17 Jan 2016].
P16+P17 GAZA Created by author. Illustration (2015). [image]
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P24+P25 OSLO
P26+P27 MONOLOTHIC CARPET
Created by author. (2015). Monolithic carpet. [image]
P33 Le Corbusier’s Obus plan
Glen.H . 2009 . Le Courbusier and Pierre Jeanneret 1930 Plan Obus . [image] available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/3540804708 [Accessed 19 Jan 2016]
Glen.H . 2009 . Le Plan Obus in Algeria by Le Corbusier (1932). [image] available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/3540026813 [Accessed 19 Jan 2016]
P39 Leopold Lambert
Lambert, LĂŠopold. (2012). WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE: A DISOBEDIENT PALESTINIAN BUILDING (2010).[image] Available at: http://www.leopoldlambert.net/2014/12/08/a-disobedient-architecture-in-the-westbank/ [Accessed 19 Jan 2016].
P54 TUNNELS 1 Abu Mustafa, Ibraheem. (2012) Smuggling cows in tunnels. [image] Availabe at: http://www.colorsmagazine.com/stories/magazine/85/story/gaza-strip Jan 2016].
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2 REUTERS/ Abu Mustafa, Ibraheem. (2014). Palestinian tunnel workers smoke cigarettes as they rest inside a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian security forces, beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip September 10, 2013. [image] Availabe at: http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/the-tunnels-of-gaza?articleId=USRTR3DQK9 [Accessed 19 Jan 2016]. 3 REUTERS/ Abu Mustafa, Ibraheem. (2014). A Palestinian worker repairs a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 10, 2013. [image] Availabe at:
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4 REUTERS/ Abu Mustafa, Ibraheem. (2014). Palestinian groom Emad al-Malalha, 21, walks with Manal Abu Shanar, 17, his Egyptian bride inside a smuggling tunnel beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip March 21, 2013. . [image] Availabe at: http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/smuggling-a-bride-undergaza?articleId=USRTR3FAN6 [Accessed 19 Jan 2016].
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4 AFP/Baz , Patrick. 2013. Smuggling tunnels from the border's Egyptian side. [image] Available at: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-02-13/why-the-egyptiansare-flooding-the-tunnels-of-gaza [Accessed 19 Jan 2016]. 5 Reuters/Cohen, Amir. (2014).The entrance to a tunnel exposed by the Israeli military is seen on the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border [image] Available at: http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/the-tunnels-of-gaza?articleId=USRTR3DQK9 [Accessed 19 Jan 2016].