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While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it: the relations between Arab identity, Mizrahi identity, and Israeli nationalism; the nightclub scene as a field of encounter, appropriation, and exclusion; an analysis of the institutional and political conditions of Palestinian cinema; the implications of the intersectional relationship between gender, ethnicity and national identity in the field of popular culture, and the concrete relations between particular aesthetic forms and symbolic power.
The authors come from diverse disciplines, including anthropology, architecture, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, and political science.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
List of contents
1. Introduction: culture and politics in Palestine/Israel 2. Dancing with tears in our eyes: political hipsters, alternative culture and binational urbanism in Israel/ Palestine 3. Face control: everynight selection and "the other" 4. The impossible quest of Nasreen Qadri to claim colonial privilege in Israel 5. Mediterraneanism in conflict: development and settlement of Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants in Gaza and Yamit 6. Songs of subordinate integration: music education and the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel during the Mapai era 7. Self- categorization, intersectionality and creative freedom in the cultural industries: Palestinian women filmmakers in Israel 8. Religious symbolism and politics: hijab and resistance in Palestine 9. Anniversaries of 'first' settlement and the politics of Zionist commemoration
About the author
Tamir Sorek is Liberal Arts Professor of Middle East History at Pennsylvania State University. He studies culture as field of conflict and resistance, particularly in the context of Palestine/Israel. His research has highlighted the political role of sports, poetry, and collective memory.
Summary
While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it.
