ISBN:
9780755633937
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9780755633920
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9780755646890
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
SOAS Palestine studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Arab-Israeli conflict Mass media and the conflict
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Mass media policy
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Documentary photography Political aspects
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Documentary photography Political aspects
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Video recordings Political aspects
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Video recordings Political aspects
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Political violence
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Political violence
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Electronic books
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Armed conflict
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Media studies
Abstract:
"How did the Israeli military learn to cope with the ubiquity of media technologies that routinely documented their power abuses? How did they re-appropriate these to tighten their grip on Palestine? This book explains why a high-tech nation with advanced military technologies came to rely on the everyday media habits performed by soldiers and civilians. Daniel Mann argues that the intensification of the security regime in Palestine, and the increasingly personal use of media technologies by both soldiers and civilians, are deeply entangled. The book traces how, beginning in the 1990s, the integration of media into the lives of civilians and Israeli soldiers enabled Israel to transfer responsibilities to individual users, who in turn became legally and ethically liable for state abuses of power. Drawing on declassified documents, found footage, and social media, Mann shows how both media and warfare have been remodelled around the figure of the defensive, isolated, and insular 'individual'. Mann suggests that the focus on representations and their close visual analysis paradoxically hinders our ability to understand media. Instead of zooming into fine details, we must step back to reveal the assemblage of images, users, and infrastructure that together serve to maintain the racial, legal and aesthetic divide between Israel and Palestine"--
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction -- 1. Domestic Inspectors:The First Gulf War and the Militarization of the Home -- 2. The Death of a Cameraman: The Second Intifada and the Demise of the MilitaryFilm Units -- 3. The Split Wall: Homes to return to and homes to destroy -- 4. Saving Face: Between Uniformity and Isolation -- 5. The Selective Enforcement of the Visual -- 6. The Regime of the Self: Between the one and the many Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9780755633937
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