1st Edition
Late Modern Palestine The subject and representation of the second intifada
Introduction: Palestine and the politics of postcolonial late modernity. 'Representing' the second intifada - a note on practice. National Liberation and the 'Great Disillusion'. (Post)colonial Palestine? Reframing the Subject in Palestine Studies Chapter 1: Late modern subjects of colonial occupation. The first intifada. The second intifada. Liberal-nationalist discourses and the return to national unity. Palestine in a state of exception. Late modern subjects of colonial occupation Chapter 2: Hybrid resistance: The politics of Gaza Beach. Gaza Beach. The shifting aesthetics of Palestinian resistance. Geographies of occupation and topologies of resistance. The hoping subject Chapter 3: Postcolonising Palestine through state-building. From a liberation struggle to a state without liberation. The state and cultures of resistance. Postcolonial politics in Palestine Chapter 4: Mobile phones and the rise of neoliberalism. A short history of telecommunications in Palestine. The nationalist strategy: One voice, one Jawwal. Expecting quality, not equality. Subaltern militancy and corporate power. Resistance in a complex world Chapter 5: Transnational political discourses and the aesthetics of living against occupation. Late Modernity and the "Crisis of the Left". Humanitarianism, Islamism, and the question of hegemony. Suleiman and the disappearance of the collective subject. Beyond Unity: The aesthetics of living against occupation Conclusions: The differend of the 'Palestinian Spring'. The empty space of politics proper. A spring of redemption and romance. The Palestinian differend. ...After politics and representation: justice
Biography
Laura Junka-Aikio is a post-doctoral researcher at the Giellagas Institute, University of Oulu, Finland
