Visioning Israel-Palestine: Encounters at the Cultural Boundaries of Conflict

Date

2020-07-23

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts

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Book

Peer reviewed

Yes

Abstract

In this interdisciplinary book, a group of international authors strives to cultivate a better future for the people of Israel-Palestine through recognition of the part that cultural products have played in the duplication of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While this conflict is one of the longest-lasting struggles over land and human rights in recent history, politicians and the media have largely reduced it to a series of debates over historical facts and expressions of violence. Its persistence, however, has also led to the manufacture of cultural products that challenge understandings of the conflict as a fight between two distinct peoples unified against each other. Contributors to Visioning Israel-Palestine analyse the content of such products alongside the work that they do within Israel-Palestine and in the Jewish and Palestinian diasporas. They largely draw on the legacy of nonconformist intellectual Edward Said, who saw culture as a participant in the perpetuation of the conflict, as well as a vehicle capable of leading the way towards its just resolution. The chapters in the volume consider Israeli and Palestinian films, art installations, street exhibitions, photographs and oral histories to expand the conflict's historical imagination and nurture suitable cultural conditions to revitalise the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Description

The book was published as part of the series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts edited by Griselda Pollock

Keywords

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Diplomacy culture, Israeli-Palestinian coexistence, Visual cultures in Israel-Palestine, Cultural products of conflict, Cultural products in conflict, Israeli-Palestinian historical imagination

Citation

Pasternak, G. (ed) (2020). Visioning Israel-Palestine: Encounters at the Cultural Boundaries of Conflict. London & New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

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Research Institute