Wall Art and the Presence of Absence

Jasmin Habib

Published: 2018-06-30

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018)

Wall Art and the Presence of Absence

Jasmin Habib

Website: https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/people-profiles/jasmin-habib

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Jasmin Habib
University of Waterloo
Canada

Wall Art and the Presence of Absence

Abstract: This photoessay takes the reader on a walking tour through Wadi Nisnas, Haifa, Israel, where art appears on walls and where walls become art. Using de Certeau, Jasmin Habib reflects on the way that these pieces represent the political and cultural histories of Palestinian displacement, a politics of belonging as well as their return. The artists’ imaginary of coexistence is set in stark contrast to the nativism that marks the world outside of these walls.

Keywords: Palestinians; wall art; photoessay; coexistence, de Certeau; Haifa

Keywords:

Palestinians , wall art , photoessay , coexistence , de Certeau , Haifa

JEL Codes

Street Art, Wall Art, Palestinian-Israeli Relations, Culture Studies, Transatlantic American Studies

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Habib, J. (2018). Wall Art and the Presence of Absence. Review of International American Studies, 11(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/6389

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De Certeau, Michel. “Walking in the City.” The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. University of California Press, 1984, pp. 91-110.
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Jasmin Habib

jhabib@uwaterloo.ca

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University of Waterloo Canada Canada

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Jasmin Habib, Director of the Global Engagement Program, is a cultural anthropologist teaching in the Political Science Department and Global Governance program at the University of Waterloo. She completed her MA in International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA, and her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. She recently co-edited, America Observed: on the International Anthropology of the United States with Virginia Dominguez. She is also the Editor-in-Chief and Anglophone Editor of Anthropologica, the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), and author of Israel, Diaspora, and the National Routes of Belonging. She frequently writes about the politics of displacement and dissident practices in the US, Canada, and Israel.

Walls, Material and Rhetorical: Past, Present, and Future—RIAS Vol. 11, Spring–Summer (1/2018)

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018)
Published: 2018-08-21

eISSN: 1991-2773

10.31261/RIAS

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University of Silesia Press

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