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DANIEL BERTRAND MONK, An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002). Pp. 265. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2003

SARAH ROGERS
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In his Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict, Daniel Bertrand Monk opens with a critical analysis of the rhetoric employed to explain the violence surrounding the 1996 Jerusalem tunnel crisis. By tracing the discursive relationship between architecture and politics in Palestine/Israel during the Mandate period, Monk offers readers an innovative, theoretical approach to the uses of architecture in the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. Through a concise, historical examination of how British, Israeli, and Palestinian political players assumed an equation between Jerusalem's architectural sites and political realities, Monk proposes that it is exactly this conceptual paradigm that allows for the normalization of the continuing violence within the representation of the conflict itself.

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Book Review
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , May 2003 , pp. 359 - 361
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2003 Cambridge University Press

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