{"product_id":"checkpoint-300-colonial-space-in-palestine-9781517919849","title":"Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing how a notorious checkpoint shapes power, resistance, and lives in Palestine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinian land and life. An apparatus of turnstiles, overcrowded corridors, and invasive inspections, the checkpoint regulates the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, granting access to some while excluding most. Offering a nuanced exploration of space, Mark Griffiths reveals Checkpoint 300 as a stark symbol of Israeli colonialism that embodies larger systems of control and violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Griffiths's sensitive and timely work highlights the myriad ways Palestinians are affected by Israel's spatial control--whether they travel through the checkpoint or not--demonstrating how colonial infrastructures of inequity extend far beyond their physical boundaries to shape daily life. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, Griffiths examines how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies, and extends into the global exchange of capital and security technologies. He also underscores how Palestinians endure and resist under oppressive conditions and how indigenous forms of life and living are sustained, illuminating how colonial space is contested and countered, unmade and remade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Blending meticulous research with vivid human stories to show the lived realities of borders, power, and resistance in the West Bank, \u003ci\u003eCheckpoint 300\u003c\/i\u003e portrays the checkpoint as an entry into the ways that colonial space is formed through security infrastructure that is both the product and producer of wider geographies of oppression, complicity, and control. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Mark Griffiths is reader in political geography at Newcastle University. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEncountering Palestine: Un\/making Spaces of Colonial Violence\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661441007890,"sku":"9781517919849","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be78dffc-442c-449e-9796-0d1824dcb48d.jpg?v=1760443571","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/checkpoint-300-colonial-space-in-palestine-9781517919849","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}