Title: Memory Activism
Description: 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.
Subjects: Arab-israeli conflict, Jewish-arab relations, Israel, politics and government, Palestine, politics and government, History, Politics and government, Collective memory, Political aspects