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, Zochro...

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Main Author: Gutman, Yifat, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2017]
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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.
Physical Description:xi, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780826521330
0826521339
9780826521347
0826521347