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Love stories of the occupation: storytelling and the counter‐geopolitics of intimacy
Author(s) -
Marshall David Jones
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12138_3
Subject(s) - geopolitics , queer , storytelling , politics , perspective (graphical) , sociology , gender studies , palestine , intervention (counseling) , political science , history , narrative , law , psychology , art , visual arts , literature , ancient history , psychiatry
Though research on I srael/ P alestine often privileges the macro‐geopolitical perspective, a growing body of work has begun to catalogue the ways in which the violence of occupation is carried out through intimate spaces and practices. However, often missing from such accounts is an understanding of intimacy as a counter‐veiling political force. Looking at the ‘Love Under Apartheid’ project in Palestine, and queer anti‐occupation organising in I srael, this paper considers how storytelling can serve as both a research methodology and political intervention, changing the way geopolitical stories are told and unfold.