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The cover of Vehicles of Decolonization has a lot filled with yellow mini-busses with the title in yellow.

Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank

Maryam S. Griffin (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell)

Examining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of Decolonization (Temple, 2021), studies collective movement, resistance, and everyday life in the West Bank to show how Palestinians assert a kind of Indigenous self-determination over mobility that Israeli settler colonialism seeks to undermine.

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