Memory activism reimagining the past for the future in Israel-Palestine
Set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and based on long-term fieldwork, this ethnographic study offers an analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It explores practices of "memory activism" by three groups of Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian citizens -- Zoch...
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Vanderbilt University Press
2017
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and based on long-term fieldwork, this ethnographic study offers an analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It explores practices of "memory activism" by three groups of Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian citizens -- Zochrot, Autobiography of a City, and Baladna -- showing how they appropriated the global model of truth and reconciliation while utilizing local cultural practices such as tours and testimonies Introduction : the logic and practice of memory activism -- The activist tour as a political tool -- The activist archive of survivor testimonies -- Similar practices, higher stakes : Palestinian memory activism in Israel -- The shift : the Nakba Law and the memory war on 1948 -- From reconciliation without truth to truth without reconciliation |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 186 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780826521347 978-0-8265-2134-7 9780826521330 978-0-8265-2133-0 |