Exploring the imperative of “relational documentary”
Process, power, and unruly collaboration in media production on Palestine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12410280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amahl Bishara (0000-0002-9598-6540, Tufts University Medford Massachusetts USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-295 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/var.12341 |
| OpenAlex | W4404086125 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Becoming an anthropologist of Palestine during the War on Terror meant that the specter of violence and exclusion always loomed over my research; yet I had become an anthropologist out of a commitment to presence in and engagement with people from the Middle East. I investigate the ways in which Faye Ginsburg's approach to studying polarizing issues, her analysis of Indigenous media, and her commitment to ethical collaboration has shaped my written and video work. In the first part of the paper, I discuss how reflexivity and positionality propelled me forward in an ethnographic study of journalistic production. In the second half, I reflect on collaborative film projects that illuminated themes of risk and positionality that are at the heart of politics and media production in Palestine. The model of “relational documentary” analyzed by Ginsburg that considers ethics and politics both on and off screen informs my approach to the obligations of long‐running partnerships. Just as much, Ginsburg's commitment to play and creativity allowed me to imagine unexpected explorations of mobility, voice, and place to ask what we can do, working across lines of difference, to be able to hear each other and make space for each other to be heard
Ancient history · Media studies · Palestine · Power (physics · Process (computing · Production (economics · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · Turkey's Politics and Society
The News Event
Contested Lives
Counting the dead in Gaza
Covering Islam
Israel and its Palestinian Citizens
Living Emergency
Crossing a Line
Writing/righting Palestine studies
The Jewish Nation-State Law
Media Worlds
The Parallax Effect
Dramas of nationhood
The Queer Art of Failure
How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologist
Veiled Sentiments
Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession
"Editors' Introduction to "Emergent Indigeneities
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |