Eyal Weizman

The Conflict Shoreline

Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
Cover: The Conflict Shoreline
Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2015
ISBN 9783869309927
Gebunden, 96 Seiten, 30 EUR

Klappentext

The village of al-'Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the ongoing "battle over the Negev," an Israeli state campaign to uproot the Palestinian Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during the Israel-Palestine confl ict, this one is not demarcated by fences and walls but by shifting climatic conditions. The threshold of the desert advances and recedes in response to colonization, cultivation, displacement, urbanization, and, most recently, climate change. In his response to Sheikh's "Desert Bloom" series (part of Sheikh's The Erasure Trilogy, published by Steidl), Eyal Weizman's essay incorporates historical aerial photographs, contemporary remote sensing data, state plans, court testimonies, and nineteenth-century travelers' accounts, exploring the Negev's threshold as a "shoreline" along which climate change and political confl ict are deeply and dangerously entangled.

Rezensionsnotiz zu Die Tageszeitung, 25.08.2015

Mit dem Studienband "The Conflict Shoreline" interpretiere und kommentiere der israelische Architekt und Autor Eyal Weizman die Aufnahmen des Fotografen Fazal Sheikh, schreibt Lennart Laberenz. Die Bilder aus der Negev-Wüste hätten eine starke politische Dimension, findet der Kritiker, Weizman dokumentiere die Verdrängung von Beduinen, die Sheikh bereits mit seinen Fotografien zeige. In diesem Zusammenhang erinnert Laberenz an Weizmans frühere Monografie "Sperrzonen", in der der Autor den Palästina-Konflikt als "Prozess der Kolonialisierung, der Enteignung, des Widerstandes dagegen und der Unterdrückung" bezeichnete.