The Politics of the Trail

Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem

Bibliographic Data

ID19930708
AuthorsOded Löwenheim (0000-0002-1528-9244, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePolitics of the Trail (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3998/mpub.5656339
OpenAlexW4247673965
Open LibraryOL37173921M
ISBN9780472072125
LanguageEN
Citations received13

Each day, as Oded Löwenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings. But for him this connection also generates, paradoxically, feelings and emotions of confusion and estrangement. In The Politics of the Trail, Löwenheim confronts this tension by focusing on his encounters with three places along the trail: the separation fence between Israel and the Palestinians; the ruins of the Palestinian village Qalunya, demolished in 1948; and the trail connecting the largest 9/11 memorial site outside of the U.S. with a top-secret nuclear-proof bunker for the Israeli cabinet. He shares the stories of the people he meets along the way and considers how his own subjectivity is shaped by the landscape and culture of conflict. Moreover, he deconstructs, challenges, and resists the concepts and institutions that constitute such a culture and invites conversation about the idea of conflict as a culture

Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · Cartography · Confusion · Conversation · Dirt · Geography · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Wilderness · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Psychology · Arab-Israeli conflict · Biography & Autobiography · cultural heritage · description and travel · foreign relations · Israel · Mountain biking · Palestine · Political · Political aspects · politics and government · Trails

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