Examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces.

Preface  vii

Acknowledgments  xi

Introduction  1

1. Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine / Hagar Kotef and Merav Amir  27

2. An Interlude: A Tale of Two Roads—On Freedom and Movement  52

3. The Fence That "Ill Deserves the Name of Confinement": Locomotion and the Liberal Body  61

4. The Problem of "Excessive" Movement  87

5. The "Substance and Meaning of All Things Political": On Other Bodies  112

Conclusion  136

Notes  141

Bibliography  203

Index  217