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Memory Activism - Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine (Paperback)
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Memory Activism - Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine (Paperback)
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Set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and
based on long-term fieldwork, this rich ethnographic study offers
an innovative 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. These activist efforts
gave visibility to a silenced Palestinian history in order to come
to terms with the conflict's origins and envision a new resolution
for the future. This unique focus on memory as a weapon of the weak
reveals a surprising shift in awareness of Palestinian suffering
among the Jewish majority of Israeli society in a decade of
escalating violence and polarization--albeit not without a
backlash. Contested memories saturate this society. The 1948 war is
remembered as both Independence Day by Israelis and al-Nakba (""the
catastrophe"") by Palestinians. The walking tour and survivor
testimonies originally deployed by the state for national Zionist
education that marginalized Palestinian citizens are now being
appropriated by activists for tours of pre-state Palestinian
villages and testimonies by refugees.
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