Imprisoned! Voices and Images from Confinement Landscapes in Palestine

This presentation focuses on a new book entitled, Imprisoned: Voices and Images from Confinement Landscapes in Palestine. A work in progress, Imprisoned is a detailed investigation into a vanishing Palestinian landscape that is disappearing under the onslaught of an expanding landscape of colonization and settlement imposed on the land by the State of Israel. As the Palestinian landscape disappears under the expansionary territorial footprint of Israeli colonization and settlement, the geographical spaces remaining for Palestinians in which to reside, work, and circulate contract leaving behind what the book argues are “confinement landscapes.” Enlisting a thickly descriptive ethnography, alongside photographic images taken by the author, this presentation reveals the lived experience of individuals confronted by confinement in three different Palestinian locales, framed by broader theoretical issues of settler colonialism and the interplay of landscapes and power.