Occupation, Sight, Landscape: Visibility and the Normalization of Israeli Settlements
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F21%3A10434134" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/21:10434134 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=0CzwZV0CtY" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=0CzwZV0CtY</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ips/olab012" target="_blank" >10.1093/ips/olab012</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Occupation, Sight, Landscape: Visibility and the Normalization of Israeli Settlements
Original language description
This article contributes toward the understanding of social and political mechanisms that work to normalize and naturalize contested political conditions on the part of privileged segments of the public. I engage these issues via an ethnographic study of Israel's so-called non-ideological settlements in the occupied West Bank, which attract Israelis due to socioeconomic advantages rather than a nationalistic and/or religious appeal. Nonetheless, the settlers' suburban experiences are in stark contrast to the geopolitical status of their communities as well as the local and international resistance they generate. I draw empirically on interviews and observations conducted in the settlement of Ariel to make sense of this dynamic. Utilizing insights from critical investigations of visuality and landscape, I argue that the normalization of everyday life in the settlements is achieved through the operation of a particular scopic regime linked to the landscape formations in the West Bank. Employing these concepts to investigate the everyday politics of seeing, I show how they channel the settlers' sight in a way that makes the Israeli rule seem uncontested, naturalized, and even aesthetic in three registers: the depth of visual field, the surroundings, and the people who inhabit the settlements' landscape.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Political Sociology
ISSN
1749-5679
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
460-481
UT code for WoS article
000728183900002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85121224336