Producing Palestine
The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media
Published on 31. October 2024
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-7556-5426-0 (ISBN)
Description
Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palestinians. Producing Palestine addresses the creative labour of producing Palestine, particularly in technological and media spaces that are defined by their porousness and by their intermediality - crossing genres of popular culture and disciplinary boundaries.
It offers sixteen 'cases' which collectively conceptualize, engage in, and invite readers to participate in the production of Palestine and its theorization. These cases cover a wide array of spaces of production such as poster art, TikTok, virtual technologies, digital mapping, drone footage, online cooking shows, documentaries, music videos and many more. Producing Palestine contends that representations of Palestine carry a multitude of meanings, that Palestine is continually produced and reproduced, dynamically generating new knowledge production across media, languages, temporalities, geographies and disciplines.
It offers sixteen 'cases' which collectively conceptualize, engage in, and invite readers to participate in the production of Palestine and its theorization. These cases cover a wide array of spaces of production such as poster art, TikTok, virtual technologies, digital mapping, drone footage, online cooking shows, documentaries, music videos and many more. Producing Palestine contends that representations of Palestine carry a multitude of meanings, that Palestine is continually produced and reproduced, dynamically generating new knowledge production across media, languages, temporalities, geographies and disciplines.
Reviews / Votes
In their entirety, the essays provide a psycho-social-virtual memoir of Palestine of both geographic and emotional proportions. They also give voice to the many thousands whose lives have been either lost to genocide or blighted by relentless occupation. * The Markaz Review *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7556-5426-0 (9780755654260)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Dina Matar is a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. She is the Chair of the SOAS Centre of Palestine Studies. She is Series Editor of the series Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa, and SOAS Palestine Studies.
Helga Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU, USA.
Helga Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU, USA.
Content
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
1 A Place Called Return, Rayya El Zein
2 Imagining Returns: Countless Palestinian Futures, Danah Abdulla and Sarona Abuaker
3 Re-centring Palestine and Palestinians in poster art, Dina Matar
4 Becoming Al-Mulatham/a: Fedayee Art, Abu Obaida, and Palestinian TikTok, Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Hadeel Assali
5 Vertical Visions of the Nakba: Towards a Topography of Layers, Viviane Saglier
6 Virtual Returns: Rehearsing and Remediating Returns in Palestinian Video Practices, Kareem Estefan
7 Reincarnated: Common Sense and the Poetics of Elsewhere, Aamer Ibraheem
8 Fugitive Crossings: On the Condition of Being Palestinian, Nadeem Karkabi and Kiven Strohm
9 Marking Bodies: A Catalogue of Keffiyehs, Sary Zananiri
10 We're Still Alive, so Remove Us from Memory: Asynchronicity and the Museum in Resistance, Lara Khaldi
11 Forging Revolutionary Objects, Stephen Sheehi
12 Cooking Online with Chef Fadi, Anne Meneley
13 Interactive Documentary, Layers of Historical Cracks, Dale Hudson
14 Palestine and the Question of Queer Arabness, Sophie Chamas
15 Refractions, Helga Tawil-Souri
16 Terra Ex Machina, Hagit Keysar, Ariel Kane, and Barak Brinker
Epilogue
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction
1 A Place Called Return, Rayya El Zein
2 Imagining Returns: Countless Palestinian Futures, Danah Abdulla and Sarona Abuaker
3 Re-centring Palestine and Palestinians in poster art, Dina Matar
4 Becoming Al-Mulatham/a: Fedayee Art, Abu Obaida, and Palestinian TikTok, Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Hadeel Assali
5 Vertical Visions of the Nakba: Towards a Topography of Layers, Viviane Saglier
6 Virtual Returns: Rehearsing and Remediating Returns in Palestinian Video Practices, Kareem Estefan
7 Reincarnated: Common Sense and the Poetics of Elsewhere, Aamer Ibraheem
8 Fugitive Crossings: On the Condition of Being Palestinian, Nadeem Karkabi and Kiven Strohm
9 Marking Bodies: A Catalogue of Keffiyehs, Sary Zananiri
10 We're Still Alive, so Remove Us from Memory: Asynchronicity and the Museum in Resistance, Lara Khaldi
11 Forging Revolutionary Objects, Stephen Sheehi
12 Cooking Online with Chef Fadi, Anne Meneley
13 Interactive Documentary, Layers of Historical Cracks, Dale Hudson
14 Palestine and the Question of Queer Arabness, Sophie Chamas
15 Refractions, Helga Tawil-Souri
16 Terra Ex Machina, Hagit Keysar, Ariel Kane, and Barak Brinker
Epilogue
Index