Rebecca L. Stein 
Screen Shots [EPUB ebook] 
State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine

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In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have proliferated as political tools in the hands of a broad range of actors and institutions, including Palestinian activists, Israeli soldiers, Jewish settlers, and human rights workers. All trained their lens on Israeli state violence, propelled by a shared dream: that advances in digital photography—closer, sharper, faster—would advance their respective political agendas. Most would be let down.

Drawing on ethnographic work, Rebecca L. Stein chronicles Palestinian video-activists seeking justice, Israeli soldiers laboring to perfect the military’s image, and Zionist conspiracy theorists accusing Palestinians of ‘playing dead.’ Writing against techno-optimism, Stein investigates what camera dreams and disillusionment across these political divides reveal about the Israeli and Palestinian colonial present, and the shifting terms of power and struggle in the smartphone age.

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Table des matières

Introduction: State Violence and the Dream of the Perfect Camera
1. Sniper Portraiture: Personal Technologies in Military Theaters
2. Cameras Under Curfew: Occupied Media Infrastructures
3. Settler Scripts: Conspiracy Cameras and Fake News
4. The Eyes of Human Rights: Curating Military Occupation
5. The Military’s Lament: Combat Cameras and State Fantasies
Coda: Broken Bones, Broken Dreams: The Politics of Failure

A propos de l’auteur

Rebecca L. Stein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of
Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age (Stanford, 2015, with Adi Kuntsman) and
Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (2008).

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 248 ● ISBN 9781503628038 ● Taille du fichier 12.5 MB ● Maison d’édition Stanford University Press ● Publié 2021 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7797763 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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