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Palestine, my love: The ethico‐politics of love and mourning in Jewish Israeli solidarity activism

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WRIGHT, FIONA 

Abstract

jats:titleABSTRACT</jats:title>jats:pJewish Israeli left‐wing activists engage in a subversive affective politics when they express love for, and mourn the loss of, Palestinian life. But the affects of love and mourning also bind these solidarity activists to Israeli state violence and sovereignty in various ways, entangling them in the very forms of power they aim to challenge. Loving and mourning the Palestinian Other involves an ambivalent ethics in which the activist subject objectifies the Other, and this objectification is a kind of violence that emerges in the affective becomings of solidarity activism. Activist loving and mourning thus call into question the nature of solidarity and alert us to the difficulty of ethics as troubled relations enmeshed in the violence of politics. [jats:italiclove</jats:italic>, jats:italicmourning</jats:italic>, jats:italicsolidarity</jats:italic>, jats:italicethics</jats:italic>, jats:italicpolitical subjectivity</jats:italic>, jats:italicactivism</jats:italic>, jats:italicIsrael/Palestine</jats:italic>]</jats:p>

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4408 Political Science, 44 Human Society, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Journal Title

American Ethnologist

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Journal ISSN

0094-0496
1548-1425

Volume Title

43

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 Doctoral Studentship 2008-2013