... The chapter examines the regime of movement in the West Bank, and the work of the Human Rights organization MachsomWatch (Checkpoint Watch.) Drawing on Foucault’s framework of disciplinary power, it examines the political technologies through which space is organized and movement is regulated...

... encountered push back from international institutions and other national security programs. It defines deterritorialized checkpoints, or geographically dispersed and politically diverse contexts in which security officials and vigilantes employ the aesthetics of transparency. The aesthetics of transparency...

... movement confinement Mill globalization checkpoints ...

... Sharif Waked homoeroticism checkpoint surveillance fashion ...

... activism gender Checkpoint-Watch Israel Palestine regime of movement disciplinary power ...

... international aviation security checkpoints community policing public feelings Department of Homeland Security ...

... Chapter 3 visits the visual field created at the checkpoint, one of the only remaining sites left for a direct interaction between Israelis and Palestinians. Through a close reading of Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints (2003), a film (video/stills) by the Palestinian artist Sharif...

...Surveillance Chapter 3 visits the visual field created at the checkpoint, one of the only remaining sites left for a direct interaction between Israelis and Palestinians. Through a close reading of Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints (2003), a film (video/stills) by the Palestinian...

... studies, feminist theory, post-colonial theory and political thought (primarily the work of J.S Mill) the introduction examines the history of ideas tying movement to freedom, alongside the contemporary production of spaces of movements or halts. The checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territories...

... and confiscation of consumer items, the development of “airport-friendly” products, and the use of the airport security checkpoint as a trope of discipline and deprivation in advertising. airport security lateral surveillance advertising consumerism Transportation Security Administration ...

... together under an extremely uneven distribution of visual rights. Centered on a comparative look at two photographic projects, Intimacy (2004), a photographic series by the Jerusalem-based Palestinian photographer Rula Halawani, and At the Checkpoint (2007), a photo exhibit/performance by the Ramallah...