Intifada Cows and Israeli National Security
Reanimating Civil Resistance in the Wanted 18
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12980550 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadine Sinno (Virginia Tech, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-217 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1943-6149 • E-ISSN: 1943-6157 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19436149.2020.1732041 |
| OpenAlex | W3008439424 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The Wanted 18 narrates the story of a Palestinian town whose residents assert their autonomy by purchasing 18 cows and producing their own milk during the first intifada. In response, the Israeli military declares the cows a ‘threat to the security of Israel’ and hunts down the ‘wanted 18.’ This article provides an analysis of The Wanted 18, focusing on the human-animal interactions. It demonstrates how film directors Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan deploy animal protagonists as a means of exposing anti-Palestinian prejudice, critiquing Israeli occupation and the Palestinian authorities who undermined civil resistance during the first intifada, and elucidating the transformative impact of human-animal companionship and creative resistance in a humorous manner that appeals to a global audience
Autonomy · Media studies · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Transformative learning · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Approaching The Agency Of Other Animals
An Accented Cinema
Palestinian Cinema
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA
Respect for Nature
Refracted Filmmaking in Muhammad Malas’s The Dream and Kamal Aljafari’s The Roof
Five Troops for Every Tree
Decolonizing nature—strategies for conservation in a post-colonial era
The practice of everyday life
Where Have All the Women (and Men) Gone
The international Palestinian resistance
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |