Producing Palestine

Producing Palestine is a compelling exploration of how Palestine is defined and constructed in the global imagination, often through lenses of conflict, resistance, oppression, and violence. These representations are so laden with conflicting claims and associations that they remain inaccessible, even to Palestinians themselves.

This book delves into the creative labour involved in producing Palestine, particularly within technological and media spaces characterised by their porousness and intermediality. These spaces cross genres of popular culture and disciplinary boundaries.

Producing Palestine presents sixteen cases that collectively conceptualise, engage with, and invite readers to participate in the production and theorisation of Palestine. These cases span a diverse range of production spaces, including poster art, TikTok, virtual technologies, digital mapping, drone footage, online cooking shows, documentaries, music videos, and more.

The book argues that representations of Palestine carry a multitude of meanings, asserting that Palestine is continually produced and reproduced. It dynamically generates new knowledge across media, languages, temporalities, geographies, and disciplines.