L Gandolfo
Biographic Data
| ID | 45149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Gandolfo |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gandolfo |
| SIGNATURE | GANDOLFO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8148-3280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work
This article examines how counter-maps offer both an alternative visual reading of the land and a mechanism to share memories of a space and place. There has been a rich conversation on the resistance offered by counter-maps, as well as the diverse immersive experiences provided by apps and online platforms. Less discussed is how the counter-maps situate memory work as resistance. This article considers two immersive digital counter-maps, Jerusal…
Utopian Cartography and Political Imagination
This article considers how political imagination shapes the articulation of multidirectional utopias and dystopias by Palestinian artists. The cartography of Palestine-Israel has been drawn by many hands: from the lines demarcated by British Mandate officials between 1918 and 1948 to the borders, crossings, and checkpoints constructed by the Israeli government since 1948. As an archive of geopolitical change, the maps provide a helpful representa…
Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films
When the COVID-19 lockdown was introduced in Palestine-Israel in 2020, it changed how the everyday was negotiated, with stricter control on movement, access, and contact with family members. As the pandemic progressed, the lockdown restrictions layered over an existing framework of structural violence that determines individual movement, remembrance, access to health care, and living conditions. In the two short films analysed in this article, Li…
A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta ( Firing Zone 918 )
The carceral edgeland occupies a unique position. At times, it is acknowledged; at others, it remains unseen by those outside its boundaries. In cases where the edgeland is architectural, such as a prison or a detention center, it can prompt viewers to consider the power dynamics exercised within. This article, however, is concerned with the possibilities for the edgeland to be moveable and embodied . Focusing on the transformation of the area of…
Navigating Trust and Distrust in the Refugee Community of Malta
This article considers how trust is constructed in the refugee community of Malta, against the backdrop of ongoing and recurrent unrest in Libya. As social trust is re-evaluated, social spaces have become sites of tension where divisions re-emerge along political, ideological, and economic lines. By focusing on the Libyan diaspora, the article presents an insight into the ways that conflict trauma shapes trust-building, and considers the challeng…
Material mnemonics and competing narratives in Palestine-Israel
Since 1948 the re-designation of depopulated Palestinian villages as national parks has evoked Lippet’s “cartography of nowhere”, as ruins and unmarked sites are subsumed in the process of material forgetting. Juxtaposing narratives and material mnemonics, this article assumes the villages of Deir Yassin, Suba, Kufr Bir’im and Iqrit as case studies to determine the extent to which memory infuses ruins with the ability to counter contemporary narr…
Transactions, space and Otherness: Borders and boundaries in Palestine–Israel
In the context of conflict narratives, boundaries, borders and borderlanders serve as facilitators or inhibitors of peace. In Palestine–Israel, demarcation is enacted through the separation wall, the Green Line and the smart fence along the Gaza Strip. To the established boundaries, informal demarcations are added, running through the land and communities physically, in the case of Firing Zone 918, and ideologically through Othering and transacti…
(Re)constructing Utopia: Remembering and Forgetting in Palestinian and Israeli Art
The union of art and politics has endured down the centuries, looking to the past, through memory, and to the future, through desire. The memory of what was or could have been provides a utopia to be celebrated or mourned, and since 1948 Palestinian and Israeli art has reflected on loss and gain, sacrifice and security, and presence and absence in the land. Drawing on Luisa Passerini, Michel Foucault and Maurice Halbwachs, this article maps the l…
Palestinians In Jordan: The Politics of Identity
60 per cent of Jordanians are of Palestinian origin,a statistic which has propelled Jordan into the role of both player and pawn in regional issues such as the birth of the state of Israel,the prolonged Israel-Palestine conflict, the ascent and decline of Arab nationalism and the subsequent rise of political Islam and radicalism. Exploring Jordan's diverse Palestinian communities, Luisa Gandolfo illustrates how the Palestinian majority has been s…
A Primavera da Tunísia islâmica: O legado de Bourguiba
Navigating Trust and Distrust in the Refugee Community of Malta
This article considers how trust is constructed in the refugee community of Malta, against the backdrop of ongoing and recurrent unrest in Libya. As social trust is re-evaluated, social spaces have become sites of tension where divisions re-emerge along political, ideological, and economic lines. By focusing on the Libyan diaspora, the article presents an insight into the ways that conflict trauma shapes trust-building, and considers the challeng…
Material mnemonics and competing narratives in Palestine-Israel
Since 1948 the re-designation of depopulated Palestinian villages as national parks has evoked Lippet’s “cartography of nowhere”, as ruins and unmarked sites are subsumed in the process of material forgetting. Juxtaposing narratives and material mnemonics, this article assumes the villages of Deir Yassin, Suba, Kufr Bir’im and Iqrit as case studies to determine the extent to which memory infuses ruins with the ability to counter contemporary narr…
Transactions, space and Otherness: Borders and boundaries in Palestine–Israel
In the context of conflict narratives, boundaries, borders and borderlanders serve as facilitators or inhibitors of peace. In Palestine–Israel, demarcation is enacted through the separation wall, the Green Line and the smart fence along the Gaza Strip. To the established boundaries, informal demarcations are added, running through the land and communities physically, in the case of Firing Zone 918, and ideologically through Othering and transacti…
Palestinians In Jordan: The Politics of Identity
60 per cent of Jordanians are of Palestinian origin,a statistic which has propelled Jordan into the role of both player and pawn in regional issues such as the birth of the state of Israel,the prolonged Israel-Palestine conflict, the ascent and decline of Arab nationalism and the subsequent rise of political Islam and radicalism. Exploring Jordan's diverse Palestinian communities, Luisa Gandolfo illustrates how the Palestinian majority has been s…
A Primavera da Tunísia islâmica: O legado de Bourguiba
(Re)constructing Utopia: Remembering and Forgetting in Palestinian and Israeli Art
The union of art and politics has endured down the centuries, looking to the past, through memory, and to the future, through desire. The memory of what was or could have been provides a utopia to be celebrated or mourned, and since 1948 Palestinian and Israeli art has reflected on loss and gain, sacrifice and security, and presence and absence in the land. Drawing on Luisa Passerini, Michel Foucault and Maurice Halbwachs, this article maps the l…
Material mnemonics and competing narratives in Palestine-Israel
Since 1948 the re-designation of depopulated Palestinian villages as national parks has evoked Lippet’s “cartography of nowhere”, as ruins and unmarked sites are subsumed in the process of material forgetting. Juxtaposing narratives and material mnemonics, this article assumes the villages of Deir Yassin, Suba, Kufr Bir’im and Iqrit as case studies to determine the extent to which memory infuses ruins with the ability to counter contemporary narr…
Transactions, space and Otherness: Borders and boundaries in Palestine–Israel
In the context of conflict narratives, boundaries, borders and borderlanders serve as facilitators or inhibitors of peace. In Palestine–Israel, demarcation is enacted through the separation wall, the Green Line and the smart fence along the Gaza Strip. To the established boundaries, informal demarcations are added, running through the land and communities physically, in the case of Firing Zone 918, and ideologically through Othering and transacti…
Navigating Trust and Distrust in the Refugee Community of Malta
This article considers how trust is constructed in the refugee community of Malta, against the backdrop of ongoing and recurrent unrest in Libya. As social trust is re-evaluated, social spaces have become sites of tension where divisions re-emerge along political, ideological, and economic lines. By focusing on the Libyan diaspora, the article presents an insight into the ways that conflict trauma shapes trust-building, and considers the challeng…
A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta ( Firing Zone 918 )
The carceral edgeland occupies a unique position. At times, it is acknowledged; at others, it remains unseen by those outside its boundaries. In cases where the edgeland is architectural, such as a prison or a detention center, it can prompt viewers to consider the power dynamics exercised within. This article, however, is concerned with the possibilities for the edgeland to be moveable and embodied . Focusing on the transformation of the area of…
Pandemic Stasis and Nonlinear Memory in Palestinian Short Films
When the COVID-19 lockdown was introduced in Palestine-Israel in 2020, it changed how the everyday was negotiated, with stricter control on movement, access, and contact with family members. As the pandemic progressed, the lockdown restrictions layered over an existing framework of structural violence that determines individual movement, remembrance, access to health care, and living conditions. In the two short films analysed in this article, Li…
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work
This article examines how counter-maps offer both an alternative visual reading of the land and a mechanism to share memories of a space and place. There has been a rich conversation on the resistance offered by counter-maps, as well as the diverse immersive experiences provided by apps and online platforms. Less discussed is how the counter-maps situate memory work as resistance. This article considers two immersive digital counter-maps, Jerusal…
Utopian Cartography and Political Imagination
This article considers how political imagination shapes the articulation of multidirectional utopias and dystopias by Palestinian artists. The cartography of Palestine-Israel has been drawn by many hands: from the lines demarcated by British Mandate officials between 1918 and 1948 to the borders, crossings, and checkpoints constructed by the Israeli government since 1948. As an archive of geopolitical change, the maps provide a helpful representa…
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