M Amir
Biographic Data
| ID | 71364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Amir |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Amir |
| SIGNATURE | AMIR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2661-8813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cartographic ignorance and territorial misrepresentation: The 1967 redrawing of Israel’s national map
Shortly after the June 1967 War, in which Israel seized vast territories beyond its borders, the Israeli government removed Israel’s internationally recognised border (the Green Line) from all official maps of the state. Since then, Israeli maps misrepresent the state’s sovereign territory and the occupied territories as one territorial unit. This article examines the changing of Israel’s national map by drawing on agnotology, the study of the pr…
Torture’s Bureaucracy and the “Legitimacy Effect”
This article tells the story of one small department in the Israeli Ministry of Justice: “The Inspector for Complaints Against General Security Service (GSS) Interrogators” (in Hebrew: Mavtan). Tasked with examining complaints of torture in GSS interrogations, and determining whether they merit launching a criminal investigation, Mavtan has reviewed more than 1,450 complaints to date. None of these, however, had ever led to criminal charges. By a…
Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory
Israeli plans to partially annex West Bank territory have mainly been perceived as frustrating the two‐state solution, and as putting Palestine/Israel on a path leading to the one‐state alternative. This paper analyses partial annexation plans without assuming that the future of Palestine/Israel would necessarily abide by either statist resolution. It argues that by ostensibly distancing Israel's hold of the West Bank from an identifiable configu…
Palestinian futures: Anticipation, imagination, embodiments. Introduction to special issue
In After the Last Sky, a text written more than three decades ago, Edward Said (1986:158) wondered how 'most of us [Palestinians]', though never 'tired enough to give up entirely', 'rally to our cause even through a mixture of scepticism and fatigue (after all, how long can you go on losing?) breaks whenever a new campaign gets under way'.To a contemporary reader, it is the question of how long that engenders incredulity: while Said's words embod…
Post-occupation Gaza: Israel’s war on Palestinian futures
The 2005 Israeli Disengagement from the Gaza Strip has left this region in a political and legal limbo.No longer strictly and fully complying with the definition of an occupied territory, the Strip, which has been under siege from 2007, cannot similarly be considered as fully independent.This paper argues that the Israeli control of Gaza is predicated on relegating this control to the past.Accordingly, it offers 'post-occupation' as a conceptual …
Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine
In-secure identities: On the securitization of abnormality
Highly securitized sites, such as airports, are increasingly using screening methods designed to purge racial profiling from their practices. In these contexts, not only are profiling methods seen as unlawful, but are also perceived as ineffective from a security perspective. Instead of basing security screenings on a perceived 'dangerousness' of social categories, these new screening methods aim to rely on automatic and objective criteria. This …
Revisiting politicide: State annihilation in Israel/Palestine
Revisiting politicide: state annihilation in Israel/Palestine. Territory, Politics, Governance. State annihilation is a persistent concern in Israel/Palestine. While the spectre of Israel’s destruction increasingly haunts Israeli public political debates, the actual materialization of Palestinian statehood seems to be permanently suspended, caught in an ever-protracted process of state-building. The current paper claims that to understand the unf…
Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine
Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic
On 26 December 2003 an Israeli activist was shot by the Israeli Army while he was participating in a demonstration organized by Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW) in the West Bank. This was the first time Israeli Soldiers have deliberately shot live bullets at a Jewish‐Israeli activist. This paper is an attempt to understand the set of conditions, the enveloping frameworks, and the new discourses that have made this event, and similar shootings t…
Women Speaking of National Security: The Case of Checkpoint Watch
The production of reports and the distribution of information have become integral to the operation of many non-governmental organizations. In this regard, the fact that the all-women organization of Checkpoint Watch publishes reports about the Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank seems to comply with current trends. However, the reports—most of which are short repetitive descriptions of the banality and everydayness of the military chec…
The Making of a Void Sovereignty: Political Implications of the Military Checkpoints in the West Bank
Research on the Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank has emphasized not only that these checkpoints have dire implications for the Palestinians living there, at the personal, familial, and communal levels, and devastating effects on the Palestinian economy, but also that they have far-reaching consequences for the ability of the Palestinians to establish an independent political entity. At the same time, analysis of the Israeli forms of dominatio…
Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine
Looking at one site, the Israeli checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territory, this article seeks to understand the mechanisms by which violence can present itself as justifiable (or justified), even when it materializes within frames presumably set to annul it. We look at the checkpoints as a condensed microcosmos operating within two such frames. One is the prolonged Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace process’ (the checkpoints became a primary tec…
On the Border of Indeterminacy: The Separation Wall in East Jerusalem
Drawing on a perspective which takes into account the convergences of sovereign and biopolitical ruling apparatuses, the aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive view of the Separation Wall constructed by Israel in East Jerusalem, and, through it, of Israeli control of Palestinian East Jerusalem. Neither a comprehensive border, nor a mere barrier, the Separation Wall which is being constructed in Jerusalem operates to reinstates sovereig…
(En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention
This article is the outcome of three years of experience, between the two of us, of weekly shifts, standing with Checkpoint Watch (CPW) at the checkpoints that are spread throughout the Palestinian Occupied Territories. It is the product of these three years of observations, dilemmas, internal conflicts, and contradictory impulses. All of the critiques that this article suggests are thus ones that we as members of CPW often struggled with ourselv…
Positive?Negative Evaluation (PNE) scale: A new dimension of the subjective domains of quality of life measure
The Making of a Void Sovereignty: Political Implications of the Military Checkpoints in the West Bank
Research on the Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank has emphasized not only that these checkpoints have dire implications for the Palestinians living there, at the personal, familial, and communal levels, and devastating effects on the Palestinian economy, but also that they have far-reaching consequences for the ability of the Palestinians to establish an independent political entity. At the same time, analysis of the Israeli forms of dominatio…
(En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention
This article is the outcome of three years of experience, between the two of us, of weekly shifts, standing with Checkpoint Watch (CPW) at the checkpoints that are spread throughout the Palestinian Occupied Territories. It is the product of these three years of observations, dilemmas, internal conflicts, and contradictory impulses. All of the critiques that this article suggests are thus ones that we as members of CPW often struggled with ourselv…
Palestinian futures: Anticipation, imagination, embodiments. Introduction to special issue
In After the Last Sky, a text written more than three decades ago, Edward Said (1986:158) wondered how 'most of us [Palestinians]', though never 'tired enough to give up entirely', 'rally to our cause even through a mixture of scepticism and fatigue (after all, how long can you go on losing?) breaks whenever a new campaign gets under way'.To a contemporary reader, it is the question of how long that engenders incredulity: while Said's words embod…
Post-occupation Gaza: Israel’s war on Palestinian futures
The 2005 Israeli Disengagement from the Gaza Strip has left this region in a political and legal limbo.No longer strictly and fully complying with the definition of an occupied territory, the Strip, which has been under siege from 2007, cannot similarly be considered as fully independent.This paper argues that the Israeli control of Gaza is predicated on relegating this control to the past.Accordingly, it offers 'post-occupation' as a conceptual …
On the Border of Indeterminacy: The Separation Wall in East Jerusalem
Drawing on a perspective which takes into account the convergences of sovereign and biopolitical ruling apparatuses, the aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive view of the Separation Wall constructed by Israel in East Jerusalem, and, through it, of Israeli control of Palestinian East Jerusalem. Neither a comprehensive border, nor a mere barrier, the Separation Wall which is being constructed in Jerusalem operates to reinstates sovereig…
Revisiting politicide: State annihilation in Israel/Palestine
Revisiting politicide: state annihilation in Israel/Palestine. Territory, Politics, Governance. State annihilation is a persistent concern in Israel/Palestine. While the spectre of Israel’s destruction increasingly haunts Israeli public political debates, the actual materialization of Palestinian statehood seems to be permanently suspended, caught in an ever-protracted process of state-building. The current paper claims that to understand the unf…
Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic
On 26 December 2003 an Israeli activist was shot by the Israeli Army while he was participating in a demonstration organized by Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW) in the West Bank. This was the first time Israeli Soldiers have deliberately shot live bullets at a Jewish‐Israeli activist. This paper is an attempt to understand the set of conditions, the enveloping frameworks, and the new discourses that have made this event, and similar shootings t…
In-secure identities: On the securitization of abnormality
Highly securitized sites, such as airports, are increasingly using screening methods designed to purge racial profiling from their practices. In these contexts, not only are profiling methods seen as unlawful, but are also perceived as ineffective from a security perspective. Instead of basing security screenings on a perceived 'dangerousness' of social categories, these new screening methods aim to rely on automatic and objective criteria. This …
Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory
Israeli plans to partially annex West Bank territory have mainly been perceived as frustrating the two‐state solution, and as putting Palestine/Israel on a path leading to the one‐state alternative. This paper analyses partial annexation plans without assuming that the future of Palestine/Israel would necessarily abide by either statist resolution. It argues that by ostensibly distancing Israel's hold of the West Bank from an identifiable configu…
Women Speaking of National Security: The Case of Checkpoint Watch
The production of reports and the distribution of information have become integral to the operation of many non-governmental organizations. In this regard, the fact that the all-women organization of Checkpoint Watch publishes reports about the Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank seems to comply with current trends. However, the reports—most of which are short repetitive descriptions of the banality and everydayness of the military chec…
Positive?Negative Evaluation (PNE) scale: A new dimension of the subjective domains of quality of life measure
(En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention
This article is the outcome of three years of experience, between the two of us, of weekly shifts, standing with Checkpoint Watch (CPW) at the checkpoints that are spread throughout the Palestinian Occupied Territories. It is the product of these three years of observations, dilemmas, internal conflicts, and contradictory impulses. All of the critiques that this article suggests are thus ones that we as members of CPW often struggled with ourselv…
Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine
Looking at one site, the Israeli checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territory, this article seeks to understand the mechanisms by which violence can present itself as justifiable (or justified), even when it materializes within frames presumably set to annul it. We look at the checkpoints as a condensed microcosmos operating within two such frames. One is the prolonged Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace process’ (the checkpoints became a primary tec…
On the Border of Indeterminacy: The Separation Wall in East Jerusalem
Drawing on a perspective which takes into account the convergences of sovereign and biopolitical ruling apparatuses, the aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive view of the Separation Wall constructed by Israel in East Jerusalem, and, through it, of Israeli control of Palestinian East Jerusalem. Neither a comprehensive border, nor a mere barrier, the Separation Wall which is being constructed in Jerusalem operates to reinstates sovereig…
The Making of a Void Sovereignty: Political Implications of the Military Checkpoints in the West Bank
Research on the Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank has emphasized not only that these checkpoints have dire implications for the Palestinians living there, at the personal, familial, and communal levels, and devastating effects on the Palestinian economy, but also that they have far-reaching consequences for the ability of the Palestinians to establish an independent political entity. At the same time, analysis of the Israeli forms of dominatio…
Women Speaking of National Security: The Case of Checkpoint Watch
The production of reports and the distribution of information have become integral to the operation of many non-governmental organizations. In this regard, the fact that the all-women organization of Checkpoint Watch publishes reports about the Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank seems to comply with current trends. However, the reports—most of which are short repetitive descriptions of the banality and everydayness of the military chec…
Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine
Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic
On 26 December 2003 an Israeli activist was shot by the Israeli Army while he was participating in a demonstration organized by Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW) in the West Bank. This was the first time Israeli Soldiers have deliberately shot live bullets at a Jewish‐Israeli activist. This paper is an attempt to understand the set of conditions, the enveloping frameworks, and the new discourses that have made this event, and similar shootings t…
Revisiting politicide: State annihilation in Israel/Palestine
Revisiting politicide: state annihilation in Israel/Palestine. Territory, Politics, Governance. State annihilation is a persistent concern in Israel/Palestine. While the spectre of Israel’s destruction increasingly haunts Israeli public political debates, the actual materialization of Palestinian statehood seems to be permanently suspended, caught in an ever-protracted process of state-building. The current paper claims that to understand the unf…
In-secure identities: On the securitization of abnormality
Highly securitized sites, such as airports, are increasingly using screening methods designed to purge racial profiling from their practices. In these contexts, not only are profiling methods seen as unlawful, but are also perceived as ineffective from a security perspective. Instead of basing security screenings on a perceived 'dangerousness' of social categories, these new screening methods aim to rely on automatic and objective criteria. This …
Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine
Palestinian futures: Anticipation, imagination, embodiments. Introduction to special issue
In After the Last Sky, a text written more than three decades ago, Edward Said (1986:158) wondered how 'most of us [Palestinians]', though never 'tired enough to give up entirely', 'rally to our cause even through a mixture of scepticism and fatigue (after all, how long can you go on losing?) breaks whenever a new campaign gets under way'.To a contemporary reader, it is the question of how long that engenders incredulity: while Said's words embod…
Post-occupation Gaza: Israel’s war on Palestinian futures
The 2005 Israeli Disengagement from the Gaza Strip has left this region in a political and legal limbo.No longer strictly and fully complying with the definition of an occupied territory, the Strip, which has been under siege from 2007, cannot similarly be considered as fully independent.This paper argues that the Israeli control of Gaza is predicated on relegating this control to the past.Accordingly, it offers 'post-occupation' as a conceptual …
Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory
Israeli plans to partially annex West Bank territory have mainly been perceived as frustrating the two‐state solution, and as putting Palestine/Israel on a path leading to the one‐state alternative. This paper analyses partial annexation plans without assuming that the future of Palestine/Israel would necessarily abide by either statist resolution. It argues that by ostensibly distancing Israel's hold of the West Bank from an identifiable configu…
Cartographic ignorance and territorial misrepresentation: The 1967 redrawing of Israel’s national map
Shortly after the June 1967 War, in which Israel seized vast territories beyond its borders, the Israeli government removed Israel’s internationally recognised border (the Green Line) from all official maps of the state. Since then, Israeli maps misrepresent the state’s sovereign territory and the occupied territories as one territorial unit. This article examines the changing of Israel’s national map by drawing on agnotology, the study of the pr…
Torture’s Bureaucracy and the “Legitimacy Effect”
This article tells the story of one small department in the Israeli Ministry of Justice: “The Inspector for Complaints Against General Security Service (GSS) Interrogators” (in Hebrew: Mavtan). Tasked with examining complaints of torture in GSS interrogations, and determining whether they merit launching a criminal investigation, Mavtan has reviewed more than 1,450 complaints to date. None of these, however, had ever led to criminal charges. By a…
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