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Denial, Ignorance and Wilful Unknowing: The Episteme of the Israeli Occupation
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Merav AmirMieke Verloo
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
To the external onlooker, a puzzling predicament plagues Israeli politics. While the majority of Jewish-Israelis state that they support reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians abiding by the two-state solution, this public still has been repeatedly electing leaders who oppose reaching such an agreement for over two decades to date. Most often, this apparent anomaly is explained through the disillusion of Jewish-Israelis from the peace process, which has swayed the Israeli electoral power towards nationalistic hardliners. However, a more fundamental change has occurred in this period, rendering the question of the position of the Jewish-Israeli electorate towards peace obsolete. Accordingly, Jewish-Israelis are increasingly becoming ignorant regarding the causes fueling regional hostilities: that Israel maintains an occupation, and that Israel is holding millions of Palestinians as occupied subjects under a military rule. This talk explored the political technologies and discursive strategies through which this ignorance has been induced, and how the politico-spatiality of the occupied Palestinian territory has so successfully been eradicated from the collective Israeli consciousness. Through this analysis Merav Amir demonstrated that this epistemic reshaping has not only reconfigured the geography of the Israeli polity for this public, but has also warped the region’s political time, and disrupted the State’s own political trajectory, as it bestows the (presumed) future eventuality onto the present.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
To the external onlooker, a puzzling predicament plagues Israeli politics. While the majority of Jewish-Israelis state that they support reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians abiding by the two-state solution, this public still has been repeatedly electing leaders who oppose reaching such an agreement for over two decades to date. Most often, this apparent anomaly is explained through the disillusion of Jewish-Israelis from the peace process, which has swayed the Israeli electoral power towards nationalistic hardliners. However, a more fundamental change has occurred in this period, rendering the question of the position of the Jewish-Israeli electorate towards peace obsolete. Accordingly, Jewish-Israelis are increasingly becoming ignorant regarding the causes fueling regional hostilities: that Israel maintains an occupation, and that Israel is holding millions of Palestinians as occupied subjects under a military rule. This talk explored the political technologies and discursive strategies through which this ignorance has been induced, and how the politico-spatiality of the occupied Palestinian territory has so successfully been eradicated from the collective Israeli consciousness. Through this analysis Merav Amir demonstrated that this epistemic reshaping has not only reconfigured the geography of the Israeli polity for this public, but has also warped the region’s political time, and disrupted the State’s own political trajectory, as it bestows the (presumed) future eventuality onto the present.
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Europe's Futures Colloquium
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Amanda CoakleyZoran Nechev
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Behind the Shields of Fantasy: The Populist Aesthetics of Status Loss
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Adam SitzeJohannes VölzLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Coloniality of Migration
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarPrem Kumar Rajaram
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Odesa Childhood of Isaac Babel
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Aleksander KaczorowskiKatherine YoungerMischa Gabowitsch
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Real Existing Post-Socialism
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Marci ShoreMuriel Blaive
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Parrhesia and the Care of the Self: Foucault, Patočka, and Dissident Praxis
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Darren GardnerLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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"Difficult to Settle" Refugees in Post-War Trieste
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarPamela Ballinger
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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WhatsApp Israel?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Avrum BurgLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Mieke VerlooTatev Hovhannisyan
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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