Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

ISBN: 0593835026

Author: Weizman, Eyal

Condition: New

From an acclaimed architect and investigator, a devastating, meticulous accounting of Israels destruction of Gaza and crimes against its peopleEyal Weizman is one of the worlds leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict, and the built and natural environment. As director of the organization Forensic Architecture, he and his team of interdisciplinary researchers have spent decades investigating and documenting acts of war and human rights violations around the world, including extensive work in Weizman's native Israel and Palestine. Since 2023, the groups efforts have focused on producing evidence for the International Court of Justices case against Israel.In this revelatory new project, Weizman draws on that original and extraordinarily comprehensive research to bring us on an eye-opening journey through the deep cartography of the area extending from Gazas subterranean tunnels through to its militarized topography, settlements, and barriers. He catalogs, in unflinching and exacting detail, the Israeli campaigns of violence and displacement that have reshaped the region in an effort to make Gaza and its surrounding areas unlivable for the Palestinian people. Taking us through the broader geographical and historical context, from the Nakba in 1948 to the present day, Ungrounding establishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between colonizer and colonized - and how Israels actions have escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide.Deeply informative and profoundly affecting in its scope and precision, Ungrounding is an essential document of atrocity in our time.