Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media And The Traces Of Colonial Violence

Sovereign Intimacy investigates the relationship between the settler-colonial state and its citizens through the intimating work of media and memory. Using Israel-Palestine as a case study, it tracks how personal family commemoration was channeled and shaped by an emerging private media complex--family videos, freelance filmmaking, grassroots campaigns, and privatized television--enabling a disavowal of the state project of colonial violence through mundane and affective kinship. To the sovereign constitutive rights--the right to life, the right to kill--the book adds another right: the right to love, a right for private life, in the name of which other lives are denied--

• | Author: Laliv Melamed
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0520390288
• | ISBN-13: 9780520390287