Visioning Israel-Palestine: Encounters at the Cultural Boundaries of Conflict
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32055
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- B - Edited book
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10.5040/9781501364655
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- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- ISBN
- 9781501364624
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Additional information
- Visioning Israel-Palestine analyses the role Israeli, Palestinian and international cultural practices have played in defining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the collective memories remembered by its participants, as well as their political positions. The concept and transdisciplinary approach emerged from the 2012 international conference Insight Palestina: Images, Discourses, and the Image of Discourse that asked how cultural canons have conditioned experiences of the conflict. Co-organised by Pasternak with the Centre of Jewish Studies and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds, the conference was an urgent response to the March 2012 Gaza-Israel clashes, which simultaneously saw augmented violence and deceptive visual coverage on both sides. The resulting volume is part of the prominent book series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts. Edited by cultural analyst Griselda Pollock, the series nurtures interaction between thinking, doing and making in the arts and humanities. Visioning Israel-Palestine was accepted as a valuable contribution for transcending the insular national and Marxist paradigms commonly used to rationalise the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while in itself being the culmination of long-lasting interactions between its contributing authors. Drawing on ethnography, visual sociology and cultural analysis as research methods, the volume offers rare opportunities for Israelis and Palestinians to encounter each other’s varied identities, beyond national confines and away from their controlled interaction in Israel-Palestine. The findings emphasise how bottom-up cultural diplomacy activities can expand the conflict’s historical imagination and nurture conditions to stimulate empathetic encounters between “Palestinians” and “Israelis”. The introduction is accessible online and Pasternak disseminated the findings during the research process via an invited talk at “Visual Histories of Occupation” (University of Nottingham, 2017) and a keynote lecture at “Photography as a Tool of Representation of Political Violence in the 20th Century” (Gagarin Center for Human Rights and Civil Society, St-Petersburg State University, 2019).
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