Postspatial, Postcolonial
@article{Kamil2020PostspatialP, title={Postspatial, Postcolonial}, author={Meryem Kamil}, journal={Social Text}, year={2020}, volume={38}, pages={55-82} }
This article centers two new media projects that imagine Palestinian decolonization, given the occupation of Palestinian land: news site Al Jazeera English’s 360-degree video tour of al-Aqsa compound in East Jerusalem and Palestinian grassroots organization Udna’s three-dimensional rendering of destroyed village Mi’ar. These digital texts reimagine Palestinian access to land as a community-driven and intergenerational project. In this analysis, access is formulated as a term that invokes the…
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