{"product_id":"ungrounding-the-architecture-of-genocide","title":"Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Eyal Weizman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenguin Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7\/14\/2026, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9780593835029\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply informative and profoundly affecting in its scope and precision, \u003ci\u003eUngrounding \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential document of atrocity in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This impressive exposé from Weizman, founder of human rights investigative group Forensic Architecture, outlines how Israel uses environmental destruction as a tool of 'ethnic cleansing' against Palestinians.... the author offers a myth-busting history of Gaza's tunnels that presents them as necessary civic infrastructure used to connect bifurcated refugee camps and subvert blockades.... It's a sickening look at Israel's systemic erasure of Palestinian life.\" --\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ePublisher's Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A timely and crucial contribution tracing the trail of the Israeli architectural, ecological, and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip. The ruthlessness and inhumanity detailed in this extraordinary book, nonetheless, also hold hope for turning the future soil and grounds into spaces of liberation and reconciliation.\" -- Ilan Pappé, author of \u003ca title=\"Israel on the Brink\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/israel-on-the-brink-and-the-eight-revolutions-that-could-lead-to-decolonization-and-coexistence\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsrael on the Brink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUngrounding \u003c\/i\u003eby Eyal Weizman proves that decolonization is not revenge, but a condition for justice and, in the end, for the liberation of both Palestinians and Israelis.\" -- Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur and author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/a-moon-will-rise-from-the-darkness-reports-on-israels-genocide-in-palestine\" title=\"Moon Will Rise from Darkness\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel's Genocide in Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/the-least-of-all-possible-evils-a-short-history-of-humanitarian-violence?variant=39408708911155\" title=\"The Least of All Possible Evils\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Least of all Possible Evils\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52610335998235,"sku":"Ungrounding","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/91-q-12csmL._SL1500.jpg?v=1784239475","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/ungrounding-the-architecture-of-genocide","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}