Memory activism reimagining the past for the future in Israel-Palestine

By:

Gutman, Yifat

Material type: Text

TextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublication details: Nashville Vanderbilt University Press 2017Description: xi, 186 p. 23 cmISBN:

9780826521347

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DDC classification:

956.94054 23 GU-M

LOC classification:

DS119.76 .G889 2017

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	956.94054 GU-M (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		135740

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181) and index.

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.

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