Summary
Feldman’s analytical concept naming the crucible within which an enduring U.S. national ideology of territorial expansion and its attendant regimes of racial domination and war-making have been codified, reified, naturalised and contested (A Shadow over Palestine, lines 141-151).
Details
- It produces and circulates knowledge to secure a purportedly stable opposition between the foreign and the domestic, providing a symbolic architecture for consent to extraterritorial violence even as those categories are persistently blurred (line 143).
- It forges space as a key site of racial, national and imperial fashioning, intranationally through suburban domesticity and urban militarisation and incarceration, and internationally through Cold War cartographies often routed through the case of Israel and Palestine (lines 145-149).
- Israel’s management of shifting national geographies offered the United States blueprints, lessons and a storehouse of symbolic meaning (line 149).
Related pages
A Shadow over Palestine, Racial relationality, Permanent war