Memory activism reimagining the past for the future in Israel-Palestine
Gutman, Yifat
Memory activism reimagining the past for the future in Israel-Palestine - Nashville Vanderbilt University Press 2017 - xi, 186 p. 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181) and index.
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.
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.
9780826521347
2016030967
Arab-Israeli conflict--History.
Jewish-Arab relations.
Collective memory--Political aspects.
Israel--Politics and government.
Palestine--Politics and government.
DS119.76 / .G889 2017
956.94054 / GU-M
Memory activism reimagining the past for the future in Israel-Palestine - Nashville Vanderbilt University Press 2017 - xi, 186 p. 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181) and index.
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.
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.
9780826521347
2016030967
Arab-Israeli conflict--History.
Jewish-Arab relations.
Collective memory--Political aspects.
Israel--Politics and government.
Palestine--Politics and government.
DS119.76 / .G889 2017
956.94054 / GU-M