Ebook: Gaza as Metaphor
Author: Dina Matar (editor), Helga Tawil-Souri (editor), Haidar Eid, Said Shehadeh, Pierre Krähenbühl, Mouin Rabbani, Naim Al-Khatib, Khaled Hroub, Jehad Abu Salim, Ilana Feldman, Salman Abu Sitta, Glenn Bowman, Selma Dabbagh, Ramzy Baroud, Atef Alshaer, Ilan Pappé, Daryl Li, Ariella Azoulay, Nimer Sultany, Sara Roy, Sherene Seikaly
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Politics: International Relations
- Tags: palestine, gaza, prison, metaphor, resistance, colonialism, antiracism, freedom, liberation, nakba, genocide, ethnic cleansing, refugees, unrwa, gaza strip, west bank, operation cast lead, zionism, colonisation
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Hurst Publishers
- City: London
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, "Gaza" immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza: Crisis, Exception, Refugees, Destitution, Tunnels, Persistence. This book brings together journalists, writers, doctors, academics and others, who use metaphor to record and historicise Gaza, to contextualise its everyday realities, interrogate its representations and provide an understanding of its real and symbolic significance. Offering perspectives from residents and observers, these essays touch on life and survival, the making of the Gaza Strip and its increasing isolation, the discursive and visual tools that have often obscured the real Gaza, and explore what Gaza contributes to our understanding of exception, inequality, dispossession, bio-politics, necro-power and other terms which we rely on to make sense of our world. The contributors reveal the manner of Gaza's historical and spatial creation, to show that Gaza is more than simply a metaphor for far-away humanitarian disaster, or a location of incomprehensible violence-- it is above all an inseparable part of Palestine's past, present, and future, and of the condition of dispossession.
Physical Description:
vii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 cm
Physical Description:
vii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 cm
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