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diana allan

McGill University, Anthropology, Faculty Member

Cornell University, The Society for the Humanities, Post-Doc

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The <i>Mavi Marmara</i> At The Frontlines Of Web 2.0

Journal of Palestine Studies, Nov 1, 2010

This essay reviews the &quot;YouTube war&quot; over the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara i... more This essay reviews the &quot;YouTube war&quot; over the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara in light of Israel&#39;s recent forays into social media. It explores the implications of state use of grassroots media platforms, examines the widespread perception that this has been a fiasco thus far for Israel, and critiques general claims that the rise of Web 2.0 entails a democratic &quot;leveling&quot; effect in information wars like that over Israel-Palestine.

Collaborations across Cinematic Objects

Visual Anthropology Review

Grass-Roots Commemorations: Remembering the Land in the Camps of Lebanon

Journal of Palestine Studies, 2004

The Oslo negotiations——and the specter of a Palestinian renunciation of the right of return——grea... more The Oslo negotiations——and the specter of a Palestinian renunciation of the right of return——greatly increased the insecurities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The new uncertainties in turn triggered the emergence in the refugee camps of commemorative practices different from those previously sponsored by the Palestinian leadership. The new forms of commemoration, centered on the villages left behind in Palestine in 1948 and including popular ethnographies, memory museums, naming practices, and history-telling using new technologies, have become implicit vehicles of opposition and a means of asserting the refugees' membership in the Palestinian polity. Beyond reflecting nostalgia for a lost world, the practices have become the basis of the political identity of the younger generations and the motivation for their political mobilization.

Introduction:: Past Continuous

Commemorative Economies and the Politics of Solidarity in Shatila Camp

Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 2013

From Nationalist to Economic Subject: Emergent Economic Networks among Shatila's Women

Journal of Palestine Studies, 2009

... “I have a lot to thank her for,” Samar told me. Those of us who have conducted research in th... more

$Research paper thumbnail of Mothers gather: the fractured temporalities of Palestinian motherhood$

Mothers gather: the fractured temporalities of Palestinian motherhood

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

The Long Turning: A Palestinian Refugee in Belgium

Cultural Anthropology

This article considers the duration and meaning of insecurity—as it is experienced over the cours... more This article considers the duration and meaning of insecurity—as it is experienced over the course of a life and moves over borders—through the narrative of a Palestinian woman from Shatila now seeking asylum in Belgium. Structured around one person’s account of the asylum process, it considers what a singular case can reveal about a collective migrant condition, the inconstant line separating secure from insecure states, and the reconstitution of a secure self in conditions of chronic uncertainty.

Nadia Yaqub, Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018). Pp. 364. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 9781477315965

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Review: Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics, by Ilana Feldman

Journal of Palestine Studies

destroy homes, and other forms of settler-colonial violence. Women are active in the boycotts aga... more destroy homes, and other forms of settler-colonial violence. Women are active in the boycotts against Israeli goods, using their own home economics as inspiration for their families and communities. Richter-Devroe argues that women's resistance is especially potent because of its embodied nature. Because women's corporal state is so often coded and signified, using their bodies to resist Israeli occupation allows women the chance to "unsettle the exclusivist association of citizenship (and related rights) with the courageous male citizen, and instead imagine, construct, and enact alternative gendered political subjectivities" (p. 96). It is in chapter 3 that Richter-Devroe's work on the quotidian-as-resistance really shines. She engages with the ideal of sumud (steadfast perseverance) and argues that Palestinian women remain steadfast through their commitments to carry on in the face of the violent realities of occupation that surround them. Considering sumud as both 'amal (work) and amal (hope), she illustrates how women sustain their families, plan for the future, and even dare to enjoy their lives. They live their lives; and in this way, they resist the colonization of their minds, even as their lands and heritage are under attack. As Richter-Devroe states toward the end of her well-researched and deeply affirming study, "Their acts of maintaining normalcy and dignity are a political strategy of resisting to be expelled from humanity and thus from having the right, or a place in the world, to have rights. It is a form of resistance-a refusal to accept political dispossession, and a constant mental and physical struggle resisting colonial subjectification" (p. 151).

Ricordare e dimenticare il 1948. La politica del ricordo fra i rifugiati palestinesi nel campo di Shatila

Quaderni storici, 2005

As the ranks of first-generation Palestinian refugees continues to thin and hope of return appear... more

The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance by Nasser Abufarha

American Ethnologist, 2011

Ever since the pioneering research of Robert Jay, Clifford Geertz, and Hildred Geertz in the 1950... more

The Mavi Marmara at the Frontlines of Web 2.0

This essay reviews the "YouTube war" over the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara in light ... more This essay reviews the "YouTube war" over the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara in light of Israel's recent forays into social media. It explores the implications of state use of grassroots media platforms, examines the widespread perception that this has been a fiasco thus far for Israel, and critiques general claims that the rise of Web 2.0 entails a democratic "leveling" effect in information wars like that over Israel-Palestine.

Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs. By Tamir Sorek. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv+312. $29.95 (paper)

American Journal of Sociology, 2016

Maritime Palestine Displaced Allan

"See and Remember" The Golden Days of Said Otruk

The Philosophy of Documentary, Edited by David La Rocca, 2016

This is not a politics–Allan

South Atlantic Quarterly, 2018

Visual Revolutions in the Middle East

Visual Anthropology, 2016

What bodies remember–Allan

An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba, edited by Nur Masalha and Nahla Abdo, 2018

Allan 2012 From Archive to Art Film A Palestinian Aesthetics

Cairo Papers in Social Science, 2012

The <i>Mavi Marmara</i> At The Frontlines Of Web 2.0

Journal of Palestine Studies, Nov 1, 2010

This essay reviews the &quot;YouTube war&quot; over the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara i... more This essay reviews the &quot;YouTube war&quot; over the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara in light of Israel&#39;s recent forays into social media. It explores the implications of state use of grassroots media platforms, examines the widespread perception that this has been a fiasco thus far for Israel, and critiques general claims that the rise of Web 2.0 entails a democratic &quot;leveling&quot; effect in information wars like that over Israel-Palestine.

Collaborations across Cinematic Objects

Visual Anthropology Review

Grass-Roots Commemorations: Remembering the Land in the Camps of Lebanon

Journal of Palestine Studies, 2004

The Oslo negotiations——and the specter of a Palestinian renunciation of the right of return——grea... more The Oslo negotiations——and the specter of a Palestinian renunciation of the right of return——greatly increased the insecurities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The new uncertainties in turn triggered the emergence in the refugee camps of commemorative practices different from those previously sponsored by the Palestinian leadership. The new forms of commemoration, centered on the villages left behind in Palestine in 1948 and including popular ethnographies, memory museums, naming practices, and history-telling using new technologies, have become implicit vehicles of opposition and a means of asserting the refugees' membership in the Palestinian polity. Beyond reflecting nostalgia for a lost world, the practices have become the basis of the political identity of the younger generations and the motivation for their political mobilization.

Introduction:: Past Continuous

Commemorative Economies and the Politics of Solidarity in Shatila Camp

Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 2013

From Nationalist to Economic Subject: Emergent Economic Networks among Shatila's Women

Journal of Palestine Studies, 2009

... “I have a lot to thank her for,” Samar told me. Those of us who have conducted research in th... more

$Research paper thumbnail of Mothers gather: the fractured temporalities of Palestinian motherhood$

Mothers gather: the fractured temporalities of Palestinian motherhood

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

The Long Turning: A Palestinian Refugee in Belgium

Cultural Anthropology

This article considers the duration and meaning of insecurity—as it is experienced over the cours... more This article considers the duration and meaning of insecurity—as it is experienced over the course of a life and moves over borders—through the narrative of a Palestinian woman from Shatila now seeking asylum in Belgium. Structured around one person’s account of the asylum process, it considers what a singular case can reveal about a collective migrant condition, the inconstant line separating secure from insecure states, and the reconstitution of a secure self in conditions of chronic uncertainty.

Nadia Yaqub, Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018). Pp. 364. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 9781477315965

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Review: Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics, by Ilana Feldman

Journal of Palestine Studies

destroy homes, and other forms of settler-colonial violence. Women are active in the boycotts aga... more destroy homes, and other forms of settler-colonial violence. Women are active in the boycotts against Israeli goods, using their own home economics as inspiration for their families and communities. Richter-Devroe argues that women's resistance is especially potent because of its embodied nature. Because women's corporal state is so often coded and signified, using their bodies to resist Israeli occupation allows women the chance to "unsettle the exclusivist association of citizenship (and related rights) with the courageous male citizen, and instead imagine, construct, and enact alternative gendered political subjectivities" (p. 96). It is in chapter 3 that Richter-Devroe's work on the quotidian-as-resistance really shines. She engages with the ideal of sumud (steadfast perseverance) and argues that Palestinian women remain steadfast through their commitments to carry on in the face of the violent realities of occupation that surround them. Considering sumud as both 'amal (work) and amal (hope), she illustrates how women sustain their families, plan for the future, and even dare to enjoy their lives. They live their lives; and in this way, they resist the colonization of their minds, even as their lands and heritage are under attack. As Richter-Devroe states toward the end of her well-researched and deeply affirming study, "Their acts of maintaining normalcy and dignity are a political strategy of resisting to be expelled from humanity and thus from having the right, or a place in the world, to have rights. It is a form of resistance-a refusal to accept political dispossession, and a constant mental and physical struggle resisting colonial subjectification" (p. 151).

Ricordare e dimenticare il 1948. La politica del ricordo fra i rifugiati palestinesi nel campo di Shatila

Quaderni storici, 2005

As the ranks of first-generation Palestinian refugees continues to thin and hope of return appear... more

The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance by Nasser Abufarha

American Ethnologist, 2011

Ever since the pioneering research of Robert Jay, Clifford Geertz, and Hildred Geertz in the 1950... more

The Mavi Marmara at the Frontlines of Web 2.0

This essay reviews the "YouTube war" over the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara in light ... more This essay reviews the "YouTube war" over the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara in light of Israel's recent forays into social media. It explores the implications of state use of grassroots media platforms, examines the widespread perception that this has been a fiasco thus far for Israel, and critiques general claims that the rise of Web 2.0 entails a democratic "leveling" effect in information wars like that over Israel-Palestine.

Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs. By Tamir Sorek. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv+312. $29.95 (paper)

American Journal of Sociology, 2016

Maritime Palestine Displaced Allan

"See and Remember" The Golden Days of Said Otruk

The Philosophy of Documentary, Edited by David La Rocca, 2016

This is not a politics–Allan

South Atlantic Quarterly, 2018

Visual Revolutions in the Middle East

Visual Anthropology, 2016

What bodies remember–Allan

An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba, edited by Nur Masalha and Nahla Abdo, 2018

Allan 2012 From Archive to Art Film A Palestinian Aesthetics

Cairo Papers in Social Science, 2012

Life Lived in Relief – Feldman

Journal of Palestine Studies, 2019

destroy homes, and other forms of settler-colonial violence. Women are active in the boycotts aga... more destroy homes, and other forms of settler-colonial violence. Women are active in the boycotts against Israeli goods, using their own home economics as inspiration for their families and communities. Richter-Devroe argues that women's resistance is especially potent because of its embodied nature. Because women's corporal state is so often coded and signified, using their bodies to resist Israeli occupation allows women the chance to "unsettle the exclusivist association of citizenship (and related rights) with the courageous male citizen, and instead imagine, construct, and enact alternative gendered political subjectivities" (p. 96).

Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments and Martyrs _Sorek

American Ethnologist, 2016

Palestinian cinema in the days of revolution

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2019