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8. Archaeology, Architecture and the Politics of Verticality

  • Eyal Weizman (author)
Chapter of: For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group(pp. 123–142)

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Title8. Archaeology, Architecture and the Politics of Verticality
ContributorEyal Weizman (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0345.09
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0345/chapters/10.11647/obp.0345.09
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightEyal Weizman
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-06-26
Long abstractThe Israeli-Palestinian is defined by where and how one builds. This chapter explores the politics of verticality. The terrain dictates the nature, intensity and focal points of confrontation. On the other hand, the conflict manifests itself most clearly in the adaptation, construction and obliteration of landscape and built environment. Planning decisions are often made not according to criteria of economical sustainability, ecology or efficiency of services, but to serve strategic and national agendas. The West Bank is a landscape of extreme topographical variation, ranging from four hundred and forty metres below sea level at the shores of the Dead Sea, to about one thousand metres in the high summits of Samaria. Settlements occupy the high ground, while Palestinian villages occupy the fertile valley in between. This topographical difference defines the relationship between Jewish and Palestinian settlements in terms of strategy, economy and ecology. The politics of verticality is exemplified across the folded surface of the terrain–in which the mountainous region has influenced the forms the territorial conflict has produced.
Page rangepp. 123–142
Print length20 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Media1 illustration
Contributors

Eyal Weizman

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Eyal Weizman, who gave the eighth Hurndall Memorial Lecture in 2013, is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture and the international investigative project, Forensic Architecture. He is the author of Hollow Land (2007), The Least of All Possible Evils (2012), and Forensic Architecture (2017). After a hugely acclaimed exhibition at the ICA, Forensic Architecture was shortlisted for the 2018 Turner Prize. They have exhibited around the world, and in 2019, their work was included in the Whitney Biennial.

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