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Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine

Name: Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
SKU: 9781517919849
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Contributors:

Mark Griffiths

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Political Science

Book Subcategory:

Human Geography, World, Anthropology

Book Topic:

Middle Eastern, Cultural & Social

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Release Date:

9/23/2025

ISBN 13:

9781517919849

Weight:

0.74 lbs

Size:

8.74 x 6.22 x 0.71 inches

Pages:

250

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Tracing how a notorious checkpoint shapes power, resistance, and lives in Palestine

Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinian land and life. An apparatus of turnstiles, overcrowded corridors, and invasive inspections, the checkpoint regulates the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, granting access to some while excluding most. Offering a nuanced exploration of space, Mark Griffiths reveals Checkpoint 300 as a stark symbol of Israeli colonialism that embodies larger systems of control and violence.

Griffiths's sensitive and timely work highlights the myriad ways Palestinians are affected by Israel's spatial control--whether they travel through the checkpoint or not--demonstrating how colonial infrastructures of inequity extend far beyond their physical boundaries to shape daily life. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, Griffiths examines how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies, and extends into the global exchange of capital and security technologies. He also underscores how Palestinians endure and resist under oppressive conditions and how indigenous forms of life and living are sustained, illuminating how colonial space is contested and countered, unmade and remade.

Blending meticulous research with vivid human stories to show the lived realities of borders, power, and resistance in the West Bank, Checkpoint 300 portrays the checkpoint as an entry into the ways that colonial space is formed through security infrastructure that is both the product and producer of wider geographies of oppression, complicity, and control.

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About the Author

Mark Griffiths is reader in political geography at Newcastle University. He is coeditor of Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence.

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