Rachel Havrelock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1382634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Havrelock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Havrelock |
| SIGNATURE | HAVRELOCK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Joshua Generation
No biblical text has been more central to the politics of modern Israel than the Book of Joshua. Named after a military leader who became the successor to Moses, it depicts the march of the ancient Israelites into Canaan, describing how they subjugated and massacred the indigenous peoples. This book examines the book's centrality to the Israeli occupation today, revealing why nationalist longing and social reality are tragically out of sync in th…
Joshua Generation
Energy
He realized what Dad meant when he compared the oil-game to heaven, where many are called and few are chosen. —Bunny in Upton Sinclair’s Oil! (2007, 73) A KEY PROPERTY of petroleum or, better said, what Andreas Malm (2016) calls fossil capital, rests in its ability to hide in plain sight. In truth, it is too much to see, too hard to fix our eyes on a single form and say, “This is oil.” These perplexing optics mean that the ways in which oil becom…
The Borders Beneath
The very phrase "modern Middle East" conjures images of military conflict, terrorism, sectarianism, and oil, yet most observers tend to separate the history of Western oil consumption from Middle Eastern wars or dismiss the whole business as wars for oil. This essay argues that the claims staked by Western oil companies to the entire subterranean sphere involved a configuration of sovereignty in which the states in question were alienated from th…
The Joshua Generation
I set out to read the book of Joshua together with its most literal interpreters - those who enacted a version of the war for the Promised Land - and suggest that interpretations of the book are always bound up with current ideas about war and territorial rights. In particular, I analyze how David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, and his Bible study group parsed the book of Joshua and argue that their interpretations, like the book…
My Home is Over Jordan
‘From the River to the Sea’ rings the refrain that defines the terrain of desire for Zionist and Palestinian national movements and promises both circumscription and distinction. Since the Mediterranean operates as a different sort of frontier, the Jordan River figures as the border where both Palestinian and Israeli identities are constructed, contested and mythologised. In national myth, the Jordan is a site of beginning and transition where co…
My Home is Over Jordan
‘From the River to the Sea’ rings the refrain that defines the terrain of desire for Zionist and Palestinian national movements and promises both circumscription and distinction. Since the Mediterranean operates as a different sort of frontier, the Jordan River figures as the border where both Palestinian and Israeli identities are constructed, contested and mythologised. In national myth, the Jordan is a site of beginning and transition where co…
The Joshua Generation
I set out to read the book of Joshua together with its most literal interpreters - those who enacted a version of the war for the Promised Land - and suggest that interpretations of the book are always bound up with current ideas about war and territorial rights. In particular, I analyze how David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, and his Bible study group parsed the book of Joshua and argue that their interpretations, like the book…
My Home is Over Jordan
‘From the River to the Sea’ rings the refrain that defines the terrain of desire for Zionist and Palestinian national movements and promises both circumscription and distinction. Since the Mediterranean operates as a different sort of frontier, the Jordan River figures as the border where both Palestinian and Israeli identities are constructed, contested and mythologised. In national myth, the Jordan is a site of beginning and transition where co…
The Joshua Generation
I set out to read the book of Joshua together with its most literal interpreters - those who enacted a version of the war for the Promised Land - and suggest that interpretations of the book are always bound up with current ideas about war and territorial rights. In particular, I analyze how David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, and his Bible study group parsed the book of Joshua and argue that their interpretations, like the book…
The Borders Beneath
The very phrase "modern Middle East" conjures images of military conflict, terrorism, sectarianism, and oil, yet most observers tend to separate the history of Western oil consumption from Middle Eastern wars or dismiss the whole business as wars for oil. This essay argues that the claims staked by Western oil companies to the entire subterranean sphere involved a configuration of sovereignty in which the states in question were alienated from th…
Energy
He realized what Dad meant when he compared the oil-game to heaven, where many are called and few are chosen. —Bunny in Upton Sinclair’s Oil! (2007, 73) A KEY PROPERTY of petroleum or, better said, what Andreas Malm (2016) calls fossil capital, rests in its ability to hide in plain sight. In truth, it is too much to see, too hard to fix our eyes on a single form and say, “This is oil.” These perplexing optics mean that the ways in which oil becom…
The Joshua Generation
No biblical text has been more central to the politics of modern Israel than the Book of Joshua. Named after a military leader who became the successor to Moses, it depicts the march of the ancient Israelites into Canaan, describing how they subjugated and massacred the indigenous peoples. This book examines the book's centrality to the Israeli occupation today, revealing why nationalist longing and social reality are tragically out of sync in th…
Joshua Generation
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (2 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (2 works)