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Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7551-7
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Surveillance
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Published:April 2015
Chapter 3 visits the visual field created at the checkpoint, one of the only remaining sites left for a direct interaction between Israelis and Palestinians. Through a close reading of Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints (2003), a film (video/stills) by the Palestinian artist Sharif Waked, the chapter explores the violence involved in the meeting between the eyes of the soldiers and the bodies of Palestinians placed under examination. The readings further render visible the commonly invisible erotic and libidinal implications of the Israeli militarized gaze, suggesting that if homoeroticism in this context surely belongs to the realm of colonial...
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