Palestine in the Air - Yap, Chin-Chin
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Erscheint vorauss. 20. Februar 2025
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"International civil aviation has been a powerful tool for the systemic disenfranchisement of Palestinian statehood, connectivity and mobility. Yet, Palestinians have creatively appropriated aviation technologies in diverse modes of resistance. Drawing 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. Aviation is presented here as an unconventional weapon of resistance that has gained media exposure and has disrupted dominant narratives…mehr

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"International civil aviation has been a powerful tool for the systemic disenfranchisement of Palestinian statehood, connectivity and mobility. Yet, Palestinians have creatively appropriated aviation technologies in diverse modes of resistance. Drawing 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. Aviation is presented here as an unconventional weapon of resistance that has gained media exposure and has disrupted dominant narratives about Palestine. The book makes use of an unprecedented range of aviation-related sources and is the first cultural history of Palestinian aviation"--
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Autorenporträt
Chin-chin Yap is a writer and filmmaker. She edited Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis (2020) and has been published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Digital War, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, The Tax Lawyer, and Art Asia Pacific. She has produced documentary films including Human Flow (2017), The Rest (2019), Ximei (2019), and Rohingya (2021).