Archival Imperialism: Examining Israel's Six Day War Files in the Era of "Decolonization"

Autor/in	Rayan, Tamara N.
Titel	Archival Imperialism: Examining Israel's Six Day War Files in the Era of "Decolonization"
Quelle	In: Across the Disciplines, 18 (2021) 1-2, S.108-121 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-8244
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; War; Archives; Foreign Policy; Jews; Arabs; Intergroup Relations; Ethnic Groups; Social Discrimination; Deception; Violence; Power Structure; Israel; Palestine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Krieg; Archivwesen; Archiv; Außenpolitik; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Arab; Araber; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Ethnie; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Täuschung; Gewalt; Palästina
Abstract	This research investigates how the interventions of records' creators and archivists have shaped the Six Day War Files Collection to sustain Israel's own narrative of the War. Using a theoretical framework of settler colonialism, epistemic delinking, and symbolic annihilation, this narrative is deconstructed to showcase how it has served to further Israeli colonialism at the expense of Palestinians being marginalized as a people and Palestine being erased as an autonomous state. In constructing this narrative, Palestinians were excluded from the telling of the Six Day War, and in instances where they could not be erased, they were misrepresented or maligned. By delinking the records from their colonial context and unsettling this narrative, Palestinians' experience of coloniality can be reinstated where it was excluded. This paper offers a novel perspective to the current archival scholarship regarding Palestine, revealing how symbolic annihilation in the archive extends and is an extension of systemic annihilation. Moreover, it challenges traditional archival practices which have historically paved the way for acts of imperialism to occur unquestioned. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01