Asia, Africa, and Europe meet where tectonic plates pull apart. In this interval of continents lies the Jordan River Valley, a region defined as much by conflict as by confluence. This issue of Pamphlet highlights the different understandings of terrain and territory that once defined and continue to reinforce this interstitial landscape in a series of perspectives. Rift: 7.5 Views on the Jordan Valley brings together the manifold vectors that crisscross the valley: watercourses, borderlines, warpaths, power lines, surveillance sightlines. Seen collectively, these vectors form a rhizomatous network of socio-political forcesphysical, political, psychologicalwhich spans the rift like a spiders web.

Hersteller:
gta Verlag ETH Zürich
Ursula Bein
verlag@gta.arch.ethz.ch
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
CH 8093 Zürich
Importeur:
GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen GmbH & Co. KG
Carsten Schlieker
info@gva-verlage.de
Postfach 2021
DE 37010 Göttingen