antropologo culturale e insegnante pluripremiato, che ricerca i collegamenti tra cultura e politica in Israele nel contesto dell'occupazione militare israeliana e dell'eredità dell'espropriazione palestinese. Sono autore e/o editore di cinque libri nel campo degli studi anticoloniali su Israele/Palestina: Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2021), che studia l'occupazione militare israeliana nel l'età dello smartphone globale e dell'immagine virale; Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age (co-autore con Adi Kuntsman; Stanford University Press, 2015), che studia i modi in cui i social media hanno alterato la relazione israeliana con la sua occupazione militare, sia in contesti statali che civili; Itinerari in Conflict: Israelis, Palestines, and the Political Lives of Tourism (Duke University Press, 2008) che considera il rapporto tra turismo, politica della mobilità e conflitto israelo-palestinese; il coeditore di Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2005) con Ted Swedenburg; e il co-editore di The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 con Joel Beinin (Stanford University Press, 2006).
Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture pdf da Rebecca Stein
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The contributors consider how Palestinian and Israeli popular culture influences and is influenced by political, economic, social, and historical processes in the region. At the same time, they follow the circulation of Palestinian and Israeli cultural commodities and imaginations across borders and checkpoints and within the global marketplace.The volume is interdisciplinary, including the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, ethnomusicologists, and Americanist and literary studies scholars. Contributors examine popular music of the Palestinian resistance, ethno-racial “passing” in Israeli cinema, Arab-Jewish rock, Euro-Israeli tourism to the Arab Middle East, Internet communities in the Palestinian diaspora, café culture in early-twentieth-century Jerusalem, and more. Together, they suggest new ways of conceptualizing Palestinian and Israeli political culture.