Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine

Synopsis

Set In Israel In The First Decade Of The Twenty-first Century And Based On Long-term Fieldwork, This Ethnographic Study Offers An Analysis Of The Israeli-palestinian Conflict. It Explores Practices Of Memory Activism By Three Groups Of Jewish-israeli And Arab-palestinian Citizens -- Zochrot, Autobiography Of A City, And Baladna -- Showing How They Appropriated The Global Model Of Truth And Reconciliation While Utilizing Local Cultural Practices Such As Tours And Testimonies. Introduction : The Logic And Practice Of Memory Activism -- The Activist Tour As A Political Tool -- The Activist Archive Of Survivor Testimonies -- Similar Practices, Higher Stakes : Palestinian Memory Activism In Israel -- The Shift : The Nakba Law And The Memory War On 1948 -- From Reconciliation Without Truth To Truth Without Reconciliation. Yifat Gutman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.