General Information

Author/Creator

Melamed, Laliv, author.

Language

English.

Published

Oakland, Calif. : University of California Press, 2023.

Physical Description

286 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Sovereign Intimacy investigates the relationship between the settler-colonial state and its citizens through the intimating work of media and memory. Using Israel-Palestine as a case study, it tracks how personal family commemoration was channeled and shaped by an emerging private media complex--family videos, freelance filmmaking, grassroots campaigns, and privatized television--enabling a disavowal of the state project of colonial violence through mundane and affective kinship. To the sovereign constitutive rights--the right to life, the right to kill--the book adds another right: the right to love, a right for private life, in the name of which other lives are denied"--

Subjects

Subject

Bereavement > Political aspects > Israel > 20th century.

Social media > Israel > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Laliv Melamed.

Content

Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- To keep in touch -- Intimate proxies -- Scheduled memories, programmed mourning -- Figures of speech : life and death as acts of speech -- At face value -- Epilogue : answering a call.

ISBN

9780520390287

9780520390294

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	155.9/37095694 MEL		Reference	-

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