The colonial present : Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq / Derek Gregory

Includes bibliographical references and index

The colonial present -- Foucault's laughter -- The present tense -- Architectures of enmity -- Imaginative geographies -- 'Why do they hate us?' -- September 11 -- The land where red tulips grew -- Great games -- Uncivil wars and transnational terrorism -- The sorcerer's apprentices -- Civilization and barbarism -- The visible and the invisible -- Territorialization, targets and technoculture -- Deadly messengers -- Spaces of the exception -- Deconstructions -- Barbed boundaries -- America's Israel -- Diaspora, dispossession and disaster -- Occupation, coercion and colonisation -- Camp David and Goliath -- Defiled cities -- Ground zeros -- Besieging cartographies -- Identities and oppositions -- The Tyranny of strangers -- 'Not as conquerors or enemies...' -- Coups and conflicts -- Desert storms and urban nightmares -- Boundless war -- Black september -- Killing grounds -- The cutting-room war -- Gravity's rainbows -- Connective dissonance -- The colonial present and cultures of travel -- Pandora's spaces.

Derek Gregory explores the connections between critical human geography and contemporary postcolonial criticism through a series of interconnected critiques and original case-studies. The focus is on the politics of spatial representation.