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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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Irony in Politics
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Gergely TóthMisha Glenny
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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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Ukraine and the Borders of Europe
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Katherine YoungerLudger HagedornVolodymyr Yermolenko
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Social and Ecological Movements in “Apocalyptic Times”
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Adam RamsayLudger HagedornMatyáš Křížkovský
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Deus Malignus
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Walther Ch. ZimmerliChristoph Durt
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Europe's Futures Colloquium
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ivan VejvodaJanka OertelOlivia Lazard
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Crisis of Liberal Democracy Today. Is Meritocracy to Blame?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ruzha SmilovaIvan Krastev
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Tsimtsum as a Political Theology for the Secular Age
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ludger HagedornRafał Zawisza
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Rebel's Clinic: The Life, Work, and After-Lives of the Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Adam ShatzAyşe Çağlar
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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