ABSTRACT
One of the most powerful strategies of imperial dominance is that of surveillance, or observation, because it implies a viewer with an elevated vantage point, it suggests the power to process and understand that which is seen, and it objectifies and interpellates the colonized subject in a way that fixes its identity in relation to the surveyor. Categorisation and enumeration of the population in precolonial India were carried out by local elites and subsequently modified and implemented by the British for the purposes of ruling and taxation. Laleh Khalili explores the development of counterinsurgency measures by the British in Mandate Palestine and their subsequent adaptation by Israel. This chapter presents case studies covering Israel/Palestine in the following areas: the identity problem, the disciplining of memory, racialised time, cloak and dagger operations, colonial bureaucracy, legal discrimination, spatial surveillance, immobility, biometrics and biopolitics, and the boomerang effect.
