Allen, Lori (2009) 'Martyr Bodies in the Media: Human Rights, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Immediation in the Palestinian Intifada.' American Ethnologist, 36 (1). pp. 161-180.
Abstract
The growth of the human rights regime in the Palestinian occupied territories during the last two decades and the spread of visual media have had an extreme effect on the nature of Palestinian politics and society. They have transformed the way Palestinians represent themselves to each other and to the international community, whereby appeals to human rights help to constitute a human subject with certain kinds of rights that are seen to arise not from a political status but from the state of (human) nature. In this article, I explore the “politics of immediation” at work during the second Palestinian intifada, which began in 2000, to explain why social actors mobilize representations of people in states of acute physical and emotional distress as part of their political projects.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | human rights, Palestine, aesthetics, intifada, media, affect |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of Anthropology and Sociology |
| ISSN: | 15481425 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01100.x |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2015 11:20 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/21300 |
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