| ISBN13: | 9780755651436 |
| ISBN10: | 075565143X |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Palestine in the Air
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As the first cultural history of Palestinian aviation, Palestine in the Air reveals civil aviation's role in the 'question of Palestine' over the past century.
International civil aviation has been a powerful tool for the systemic disenfranchisement of Palestinian statehood, connectivity and mobility. Yet, at the same time, Palestinians have creatively appropriated aviation technologies in diverse modes of resistance. They have exploited flight's symbolic values of escape and liberation in their struggle against occupation. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, diplomacy and history, Palestine in the Air examines civil aviation's political, social and cultural impact upon the Palestinian quest for sovereignty. The book makes use of an unprecedented range of aviation-related sources spanning histories, images, interviews with Palestinians, research, print and television archives, art, film, literature, poetry and even stand-up comedy. Aviation is presented here as an unconventional weapon of resistance that has gained media exposure and has had the ability to disrupt dominant narratives about Palestine. This includes, most radically, aeroplane hijackings, but also subaltern resistance movements that make use of balloons and kites, or filmmakers and researchers that use commercial drones to reclaim knowledge and agency of their environment.
Introduction
- Histories of flight
- Colonial and national
- Aviation diplomacy and critical air studies
- Literature review
- Methodology and chapter summaries
Chapter 1 Air, Space and Society
- How air expanded space
- The first air statesmen
- Imperial projections
- Civilian air travel
- Haganah aerial intelligence
Chapter 2 Chosen Instrument
- Politics in the air
- Palestine Airways and Aviron
- Eastern Airways and the Arab Airways Association
- Gumbley and the Chosen Instrument
Chapter 3 Capital Flight
- Middle East aviation in the 1950s
- Jerusalem-Amman relations
- Kendall Town Plan and Point Four
- Aviation in Israel, 1948-67
- Arrested motion
Chapter 4 Perforating Worlds
- The airplane's chronotope
- From tents to airplanes
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- The skyjackings
- The new Palestinian chronotope
Chapter 5 Chairman in the Air
- New York and Havana
- Visual approach
- Windfall from America
- Onboarding the media
- The Libyan crash
- Homecoming
Chapter 6 An Airport, a Flag, an Airline
- Aligning revolutions
- New winds in Oslo
- Missed approaches
- Terminal ambition
Chapter 7 Flying While Palestinian
- Air foils
- Getting to the airport
- Turning points
- Airport refugees and wheel well stowaways
Chapter 8 Reterritorializing
- Time-space dislocation
- Remixing realities
- Lines of flight
- Airborne incursions
Epilogue
