The Colonial Pasts and Violent Present of Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesDetention and confinement— both of combatants and large groups of civilians—have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century, with a huge increase in the employment of detention camps, internment centres, and the enclosure or isolation of groups of people. Laleh Khalili examines the practices and historical roots of two major liberal counterinsurgencies of our day - the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the U.S. War on Terror