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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 186 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826521330 0826521339 9780826521347 0826521347 |