Paxton a place of peace

  Studying Michel Foucault’s theories of “ power” and “ the other” and applying this theory to the context of Gaza can provide a profound framework for understanding the conflict beyond mere military clashes. It shifts the focus and helps us to understand how control is maintained over a population through space, knowledge, and daily life.  This essay argues that Gaza represents a hyper-modern 'death-world.' In this space, the discursive dehumanization of the population seems to justify an extensive pervasive system of constant technological surveillance and biological regulation, ultimately reducing all human life to that of absolute sovereign control. For Foucault, those in power creates certain "discourses"— they create the language, the labels, and the narratives that are used in everyday life. These discourses are then used consistently to define all reality over a period of time.   The population of Gaza is after many years now heavily filtered through a sing...