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A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison WebInside the Military Courts

A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison Web: Inside the Military Courts [This chapter follows the author’s steps inside the military courts and shows that in many cases, people are held for motives that do not directly concern them. The individual is not the main target of military justice; through them, the target is always collective. People can thus be arrested for their acts—but also for their family, social, and political ties. As examined in this chapter, the pure logic of the intelligence service networks and data collection is the opposite of judicial logic. This logic spins what Stéphanie Latte Abdallah calls a prison web, defined and deployed as both a reality and a virtuality, that is, the possibility to arrest and detain a very large number of people. Activated according to the needs of the intelligence services and the political and security situation, the prison web participates in the creation of a suspended, indeterminate, and uncertain space, instigating a veritable governing of the Palestinian population by the penal system. Vagueness and opacity are not just an impression in the hearings and judicial and administrative procedures; they contribute to characterizing infractions and obfuscate the temporal and spatial limits on which the law and the detainees’ possible defense rest. In so doing, they contribute to spinning the prison web. Through ethnographic accounts of trials, this chapter demonstrates how law is performed and contested in a colonial context.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison WebInside the Military Courts

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-031-08708-0
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10.1007/978-3-031-08709-7_1
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[This chapter follows the author’s steps inside the military courts and shows that in many cases, people are held for motives that do not directly concern them. The individual is not the main target of military justice; through them, the target is always collective. People can thus be arrested for their acts—but also for their family, social, and political ties. As examined in this chapter, the pure logic of the intelligence service networks and data collection is the opposite of judicial logic. This logic spins what Stéphanie Latte Abdallah calls a prison web, defined and deployed as both a reality and a virtuality, that is, the possibility to arrest and detain a very large number of people. Activated according to the needs of the intelligence services and the political and security situation, the prison web participates in the creation of a suspended, indeterminate, and uncertain space, instigating a veritable governing of the Palestinian population by the penal system. Vagueness and opacity are not just an impression in the hearings and judicial and administrative procedures; they contribute to characterizing infractions and obfuscate the temporal and spatial limits on which the law and the detainees’ possible defense rest. In so doing, they contribute to spinning the prison web. Through ethnographic accounts of trials, this chapter demonstrates how law is performed and contested in a colonial context.]

Published: Aug 30, 2022

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