Popular Culture, Relational History, and the Question of Power in Palestine and Israel
Journal Article
The marginalization of popular culture in radical scholarship on Palestine and Israel is symptomatic of the conceptual limits that still define much Middle East studies scholarship: namely, the prevailing logic of the nation-state on the one hand and the analytic tools of classical Marxist historiography and political economy on the other. This essay offers a polemic about the form that alternative scholarly projects might take through recourse to questions of popular culture. The authors argue that close attention to the ways that popular culture “articulates” with broader political, social, and economic processes can expand scholarly understandings of the terrain of power in Palestine and Israel, and hence the possible arenas and modalities of struggle.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- STEIN, RL; SWEDENBURG, T
Published Date
- 2004
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 33 / 4
Start / End Page
- 5 - 20
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0377-919X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1525/jps.2004.33.4.005