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ID145415
Title ProperImages and imaginings of Palestine
Other Title Informationterritory and everyday geopolitics for Palestinian Jordanians
LanguageENG
AuthorCulcasi, Karen
Summary / Abstract (Note)In this paper, I delve into the complex ways in which Palestine is conceptualised as both a concrete and amorphous territory through an examination of the everyday practices of displaying images and imagining Palestine. Building from fieldwork conducted with Palestinian Jordanians, I analyse and contextualise images and maps of Palestine that they display in their homes and communities. I complicate what these images seem to represent with insights from interviews I conducted about how they spatially imagine Palestine. Throughout the paper I show that images and imaginings of Palestine are quite diverse and have various territorial meanings. Yet, as varied and seemingly different as these images and imaginings may be, they are nevertheless intimately linked through territorial discourses of displacement and rootedness, as well as through the everyday practices of remembering and resistance. Thus, I contribute to recent scholarship within geopolitics by highlighting (1) the value of examining images and imaginings of everyday geopolitics in tandem with one another, (2) the complex and fluid ways in which territory configures into everyday geopolitics, and (3) that amorphous notions of territory need to be integrated into work on territory more broadly.
`In' analytical NoteGeopolitics Vol. 21, No.1; 2016: p.69-91
Journal SourceGeopolitics Vol: 21 No 1
Key WordsPalestine ;  Geopolitics ;  Palestinian Jordanians


 
 
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