Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel

<p>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. </p><p>The authors come from diverse disciplines, including anthropology, architecture, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, and political science. </p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies</i>.</p> <p>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 </p>