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Colonization by Imagination
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Nassar, Issam |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | While debate on the wall that Israel is erecting around the Palestinian communities of the West Bank has taken various forms-legal, economic, humanitarian, and political-one by-product of the wall has yet to be seriously examined: the effect it has on one’s imagination of the Other. The issue of seeing, or, in our case, not seeing the Other may not be of enormous consequence in the short run, but there is no doubt in my mind that it will have serious long term effects. After all, fighting an obscure, invisible enemy demonized by pundits and politicians alike, entails less guilt and ill-feeling on the part of the attacking soldiers regarding the pain they inflict in the course of modern warfare. In this essay, I trace a history of “unseeing” the Palestinians as a means to deny their claims to the land. |
| Related Links | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/3-7643-7868-9_15.pdf |
| Ending Page | 226 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| Starting Page | 222 |
| DOI | 10.1007/3-7643-7868-9_15 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Publisher Date | 2007-07-16 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Cultural Studies Imagination Palestinians Seeing Erecting Bank Invisible Pundits Course Obscure Attacking |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
