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In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial
Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers
killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared,
during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation
of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to
the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory
culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via
mediated commemorations. By tracing an emerging media system of
freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of
care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these
videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli
militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the
home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds
of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and
its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence.
In Sovereign Intimacy, Melamed offers a poignant and critical view
of the weaponization of home media and mourning in service of the
neoliberal settler state.
In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial
Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers
killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared,
during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation
of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to
the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory
culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via
mediated commemorations. By tracing an emerging media system of
freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of
care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these
videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli
militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the
home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds
of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and
its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence.
In Sovereign Intimacy, Melamed offers a poignant and critical view
of the weaponization of home media and mourning in service of the
neoliberal settler state.
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