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Fields and Facebook: Ta'ayush's Grassroots Activism and Archiving the Peace that Will Have Come in Israel/Palestine
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Abstract Israeli peace activism has increasingly taken place on new media, as in the case of the grassroots anti-Occupation group, Ta’ayush. What is the significance of Ta’ayush’s work on the ground and online for peace? This article considers
the former in the light of social movement scholarship on peaceb... view more
Israeli peace activism has increasingly taken place on new media, as in the case of the grassroots anti-Occupation group, Ta’ayush. What is the significance of Ta’ayush’s work on the ground and online for peace? This article considers
the former in the light of social movement scholarship on peacebuilding, and the latter in light of new media scholarship on social movements. Each of those approaches suggest that Ta’ayush has very limited success in achieving its
strategic goals or generating outrage about the Occupation in the virtual/public sphere. Yet, Ta’ayush’s apparent “failure” according to standard criteria of success misses the significance of Ta’ayush’s work. Its combination of grassroots activism and online documentation of its work in confronting the Occupation in partnership with Palestinians has assembled
an impressive archive. Through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, Ta’ayush can be seen to enact a “future perfect” peace that will have come. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
civil society; political movement; protest; new media; facebook; occupation policy; Palestine; Palestinian territories; peace process; interactive media; Israel; social movement; settlement; Benjamin, W.; Palestinian-Israeli conflict; online media; conflict management; digital media
Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Interactive, electronic Media
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 27-38
Journal
Media and Communication, 4 (2016) 1
Issue topic
Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution