Index: Concepts, O

• Occupation by bureaucracy — Makdisi’s occupation worked through application forms, title deeds, residency papers and permits.
• One-state solution — The single secular democratic state Makdisi advocates, announced in his front matter.
• Ordinary Violence — Lambert’s term for daily, systematic colonial violence embodied by architecture, opposed to spectacular news violence.
• Organicism — Oppenheimer’s view of society as an organism whose health is a natural balance of conflicted interests, restorable by the social physician’s removal of obstructions.
• Organizational adaptation — Parkinson’s three-level account of militant change under repression: repurposing, remapping and emergence.
• Organizational metadata — Parkinson’s extension of Fujii’s metadata to the collective organizational meanings revealed around an interview, in referral chains, selections, inventions and silences.
• Orientalism — The West’s tradition of representing the Orient, Islam and the Arabs, on which Zionism drew for its view of the Palestinians, in Said’s account.