Fredrik Meiton
Biographic Data
| ID | 378261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fredrik Meiton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fredrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Meiton |
| SIGNATURE | MEITON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine
Perhaps the most famous image of Palestinian life under the British (1917-1948) is that of the "iron cage." Rashid Khalidi, the historian who coined the term in the context of Palestine, was referring to a political and military apparatus, operated by the British mandatory government, that constrained the Palestinian leadership to the point of rendering it incapable of taking any effective political action. This article holds on to the notion of …
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation
Like electricity, political power travels through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. Electrical Palestine charts the construction of Palestine’s electric grid in the interwar period and its implication in the area’s rapid and uneven development. It does so in an effort to rethink both the origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the interplay of politics, capital, and technology more broadly. The study follows the coevolution of…
Electrifying Jaffa: Boundary-Work and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
In the summer of 1923 the Russian-born Jewish engineer Pinhas Rutenberg threw the switch at Mandate Palestine’s first electrical distribution system, lighting up a portion of Allenby Street in Tel Aviv. It was the first step in an endeavour that, according to Rutenberg, was ‘destined to become the most important instrument for the sound development of the country’. 1 The local British government in Jerusalem agreed, as did Whitehall. Major Hubert…
The Radiance of the Jewish National Home: Technocapitalism, Electrification, and the Making of Modern Palestine
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the history of the Palestine mandate and its power relations were not determined solely by a series of legal measures, beginning with the 1917 Balfour Declaration and ending with the UNGA partition resolution of 1947. Rather, the emergence of modern Palestine was a process significantly guided by global technocapitalism. Palestine was constituted on the basis of a successful Zionist pitch for the area as an econom…
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine
Perhaps the most famous image of Palestinian life under the British (1917-1948) is that of the "iron cage." Rashid Khalidi, the historian who coined the term in the context of Palestine, was referring to a political and military apparatus, operated by the British mandatory government, that constrained the Palestinian leadership to the point of rendering it incapable of taking any effective political action. This article holds on to the notion of …
The Radiance of the Jewish National Home: Technocapitalism, Electrification, and the Making of Modern Palestine
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the history of the Palestine mandate and its power relations were not determined solely by a series of legal measures, beginning with the 1917 Balfour Declaration and ending with the UNGA partition resolution of 1947. Rather, the emergence of modern Palestine was a process significantly guided by global technocapitalism. Palestine was constituted on the basis of a successful Zionist pitch for the area as an econom…
The Radiance of the Jewish National Home: Technocapitalism, Electrification, and the Making of Modern Palestine
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the history of the Palestine mandate and its power relations were not determined solely by a series of legal measures, beginning with the 1917 Balfour Declaration and ending with the UNGA partition resolution of 1947. Rather, the emergence of modern Palestine was a process significantly guided by global technocapitalism. Palestine was constituted on the basis of a successful Zionist pitch for the area as an econom…
Electrifying Jaffa: Boundary-Work and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
In the summer of 1923 the Russian-born Jewish engineer Pinhas Rutenberg threw the switch at Mandate Palestine’s first electrical distribution system, lighting up a portion of Allenby Street in Tel Aviv. It was the first step in an endeavour that, according to Rutenberg, was ‘destined to become the most important instrument for the sound development of the country’. 1 The local British government in Jerusalem agreed, as did Whitehall. Major Hubert…
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation
Like electricity, political power travels through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. Electrical Palestine charts the construction of Palestine’s electric grid in the interwar period and its implication in the area’s rapid and uneven development. It does so in an effort to rethink both the origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the interplay of politics, capital, and technology more broadly. The study follows the coevolution of…
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine
Perhaps the most famous image of Palestinian life under the British (1917-1948) is that of the "iron cage." Rashid Khalidi, the historian who coined the term in the context of Palestine, was referring to a political and military apparatus, operated by the British mandatory government, that constrained the Palestinian leadership to the point of rendering it incapable of taking any effective political action. This article holds on to the notion of …
History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Mandate (4 works) · Mandatory Palestine (4 works) · Palestine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)