{"product_id":"visual-occupations-9780822359012","title":"Visual Occupations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eVisual Occupations\u003c\/i\u003e Gil Z. Hochberg shows how the Israeli Occupation of Palestine is driven by the unequal access to visual rights, or the right to control what can be seen, how, and from which position. Israel maintains this unequal balance by erasing the history and denying the existence of Palestinians, and by carefully concealing its own militarization. Israeli surveillance of Palestinians, combined with the militarized gaze of Israeli soldiers at places like roadside checkpoints, also serve as tools of dominance. Hochberg analyzes various works by Palestinian and Israeli artists, among them Elia Suleiman, Rula Halawani, Sharif Waked, Ari Folman, and Larry Abramson, whose films, art, and photography challenge the inequity of visual rights by altering, queering, and manipulating dominant modes of representing the conflict. These artists'' creation of new ways of seeing—such as the refusal of Palestinian filmmakers and photographers to show Palestinian suffering o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Both \u003ci\u003eVisual Occupations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDigital Militarism\u003c\/i\u003e are ultimately about the gaze, about the ability of Israelis to see themselves as perpetrators and about the ability of Palestinians to return, refuse, or otherwise manage the disciplining gaze of military and international aid organizations alike. Kuntsman and Stein, and Hochberg all demand that their readers see a long violence in pictures of events that might be taken as spectacular or ruptural, in images that seem to show nothing at all.\" -- Jenna Brager * The New Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hochberg's is a timely and important book that demonstrates that the Israeli occupation of Palestine is determined in and by the visual realm and through the shape of visual fields.... \u003ci\u003eVisual Occupations\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the great extent to which the Israeli occupation of Palestine is interwoven and deeply embedded in the visual politics of cultural production—informing its content, framing, form, message, and even execution—yet the visibility of this influence is not always apparent.\" -- Sara Rodrigues * PopMatters *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ariella Azoulay, Eyal Weizman,Neve Gordon, and others have created a rich corpus of work on spatial inequality in the region, to which Hochberg adds a vital and innovative dimension in her exploration of its visual field. Organized according to the key concepts of concealment, surveillance, and witnessing, \u003ci\u003eVisual Occupations\u003c\/i\u003e provides a lucid, incisive analysis of the unequal visual rights that sustain the Zionist project.\" -- Alessandra Amin * Art Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVisual Occupations\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and provocative book. Hochberg’s discussion of the place of the visual in this 'conflict' that is no longer consigned to a secondary or background subject within the scholarship on Palestine\/Israel is a most welcome addition.\" -- Kiven Strohm * ReOrient *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hochberg’s study is firmly grounded in the familiar analysis of the politics of visuality, focusing on who can see and whose vision is obstructed, who can be seen and who is confined to invisibility, and on the violent practices that impose this economy of the visual.  . . . To achieve both a fruitful general framework and a careful study of the specificities of each practice and each artistic manifestation of the visual power-struggle, Hochberg also incorporates in her close readings various other critical perspectives, such as queer studies, film studies, psychoanalysis, and the politics of ethics.\" -- Orly Lubin * GLQ *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Visual Politics at a Conflict Zone 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Concealment \u003cbr\u003e 1. Visible Invisibility: On Ruins, Erasure, and Haunting 37\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Invisible Spectators to the Spectacle of Terror: Chronicles of a Contested Citizenship 57\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Surveillance \u003cbr\u003e 3. The (Soldier's) Gaze and the (Palestinian) Body: Power, Fantasy, and Desire in the Militarized Contact Zone 79\u003cbr\u003e 4. Visual Rights and the Prospect of Exchange: The Photographic Event Placed under Duress 97\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Witnessing \u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Nothing to Look At\"; or, \"For Whom Are You Shooting?\": The Imperative to Witness and the Menace of the Global Gaze 115\u003cbr\u003e 6. Shooting War: On Witnessing One's Failure to See (on Time) 139\u003cbr\u003e Closing Words 163\u003cbr\u003e Notes 167\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 187\u003cbr\u003e Index 207\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406088184151,"sku":"9780822359012","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822359012.jpg?v=1730494484","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visual-occupations-9780822359012","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}