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Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging

Language in society, 2019-09, Vol.48 (4), p.607-628 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 ;ISSN: 0047-4045 ;EISSN: 1469-8013 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0047404519000356

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Title:
Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging
Author: Milani, Tommaso M. ; Levon, Erez
Subjects: Ambiguity ; Ambivalence ; Belongingness ; Code switching ; Documentary films ; Foucauldian analysis ; Gender identity ; Gender Studies ; General Language Studies and Linguistics ; Genusstudier ; heterotopia ; homonationalism ; Identity ; Jämförande språkvetenskap och lingvistik ; LGBTQ people ; Media and Communications ; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap ; Motion pictures ; normativity ; Palestinian people ; pinkwashing ; Sexuality ; Sociolinguistics ; space ; Specific Languages ; Språkstudier
Is Part Of: Language in society, 2019-09, Vol.48 (4), p.607-628
Description: Israel has recently succeeded in presenting itself as an attractive haven for LGBT constituencies. In this article, we investigate how this affective traction operates in practice, along with the ambiguous entanglement of normativity and antinormativity as expressed in the agency of some gay Palestinian Israelis vis-à-vis the Israeli homonationalist project. For this purpose, we analyze the documentary Oriented (2015), produced by the British director Jake Witzenfeld together with the Palestinian collective Qambuta Productions. More specifically, the aim of the article is twofold. From a theoretical perspective, we seek to demonstrate how Foucault's notion of heterotopia provides a useful framework for understanding the spatial component of Palestinian Israeli experience, and the push and pull of conflicted identity projects more generally. Empirically, we illustrate how Israel is a homotopia, an inherently ambivalent place that is simultaneously utopian and dystopian, and that generates what we call vicious belonging. (Code-switching, heterotopia, homonationalism, normativity, pinkwashing, sexuality, space)*
Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0047-4045
EISSN: 1469-8013
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404519000356
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 ;ISSN: 0047-4045 ;EISSN: 1469-8013 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0047404519000356

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