Session 1 Screening | Week 3 Hilary Term
Thursday 9 May 2024, 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
All welcome
Frames of Resistance: Palestinian Shorts Screening
Films Screening:
- Bonboné (2017)
- Condom Lead (2013)
- Like Twenty Impossible Minutes (2003)
- The Crossing (2015)
In this discussion, we will be focusing on two aspects of the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation through a comparative short film viewing. The first half of the discussion will focus on the body as a site of resistance, the politics of reproduction, and how settler colonialism impacts the intimate lives of Palestinians in Gaza and in the West bank. The second part of the discussion will focus on the daily reality of Palestinians that try to cross through Israeli checkpoints and the abuse and humiliation perpetuated by Israeli authorities.
Readings:
Butler, Judith. “Bodies and Power, Revisited.” Radical Philosophy 114, Jul/Aug 2002.
Hammami, Rema. “Destabilizing Mastery and the Machine.” Current Anthropology, vol. 60, no. S19, 1 Feb. 2019.
Rexer, Gala. “The Materiality of Power and Bodily Matter(Ing): Embodied Resistance in Palestine.” Body & society 29.4 (2023): 3–28. Web.
Further Reading:
Samman, Maha. “From Moments to Durations: The Impact of Israeli Checkpoints on Palestinian Everyday Life in Jerusalem.” International Journal of Urban Sciences 25, no. 1 (2021): 124–48. doi:10.1080/12265934.2020.1777892.
Relevant Film term (Check Glossary here)
All readings can be found here.
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The Aesthethics of Exclusion: Minorities in Films from the Muslim World is part of TORCH Student Networks
