{"product_id":"ungrounding-the-architecture-of-genocide-9780593835029","title":"Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom an acclaimed architect and investigator, a devastating, meticulous accounting of Israel's destruction of Gaza and crimes against its people\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEyal Weizman is one of the world's leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict, and the built and natural environment. As director of the organization Forensic Architecture, he and his team of interdisciplinary researchers have spent decades investigating and documenting acts of war and human rights violations around the world, including extensive work in Weizman's native Israel and Palestine. Since 2023, the group's efforts have focused on producing evidence for the International Court of Justice's case against Israel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this revelatory new project, Weizman draws on that original and extraordinarily comprehensive research to bring us on an eye-opening journey through the \"deep cartography\" of the area extending from Gaza's subterranean tunnels through to its militarized topography, settlements, and barriers. He catalogs, in unflinching and exacting detail, the Israeli campaigns of violence and displacement that have reshaped the region in an effort to make Gaza and its surrounding areas unlivable for the Palestinian people. Taking us through the broader geographical and historical context, from the Nakba in 1948 to the present day, \u003ci\u003eUngrounding \u003c\/i\u003eestablishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between colonizer and colonized -- and how Israel's actions have escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeeply informative and profoundly affecting in its scope and precision, \u003ci\u003eUngrounding \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential document of atrocity in our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eyal Weizman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593835029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEyal Weizman\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder and director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where, in 2005, he founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour, Palestine. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eHollow Land\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Least of all Possible Evils\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInvestigative Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Conflict Shoreline\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForensic Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award known as the \"Alternative Nobel Prize,\" a Peabody Award, the European Cultural Foundation Award, and numerous other awards in human rights, investigative journalism, art, and architecture. In 2019, he was elected Life Fellow of the British Academy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Eyal Weizman \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48685122977949,"sku":"9780593835029","price":45.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_96456905-6398-4cfe-ac52-c7793562b598.jpg?v=1784715354","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/ungrounding-the-architecture-of-genocide-9780593835029","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}