Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine pdf

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).

Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine pdf da Rebecca Stein

In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have proliferated as political tools in the hands of a broad range of actors and institutions, including Palestinian activists, Israeli soldiers, Jewish settlers, and human rights workers. All trained their lens on Israeli state violence, propelled by a shared dream: that advances in digital photography--closer, sharper, faster--would advance their respective political agendas. Most would be let down. Drawing on ethnographic work, Rebecca L. Stein chronicles Palestinian video-activists seeking justice, Israeli soldiers laboring to perfect the military's image, and Zionist conspiracy theorists accusing Palestinians of "playing dead." Writing against techno-optimism, Stein investigates what camera dreams and disillusionment across these political divides reveal about the Israeli and Palestinian colonial present, and the shifting terms of power and struggle in the smartphone age.