Dr Mark Griffiths: Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (Minnesota University Press, 2025). Read more about the book talks series.

The first talk of the series introduces the notorious Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, as a stark symbol of Israeli colonialism that embodies larger systems of control and violence. The book explores Palestinians endure and resist under oppressive conditions and how indigenous forms of life and living are sustained, illuminating how colonial space is contested and countered, unmade and remade.

Order & read more about the book here. Dr Mark Griffiths is reader in political geography at Newcastle University. He is coeditor of Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence.