Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile

Moving Memory is an ethnography of remembrance in the field of tension between post-dictatorship Chile and occupied Palestine that offers new insights into memory politics as a globally resurgent and increasingly transnational phenomenon. It explores how Palestinian diaspora politics play into larger attempts to obscure the recent Chilean past and its consequences, while also working to counter Zionist efforts to negate and erase Palestinian existence. Memories move across porous and ever-changing geographical and socio-political boundaries, reconfiguring realities in the process.

Format: Hardback
Length: 156 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2023
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Moving Memory is an ethnography of remembrance that delves into the complex interplay between post-dictatorship Chile and occupied Palestine, offering fresh perspectives on memory politics as a globally resurgent and increasingly transnational phenomenon. It presents a largely untold narrative of the Palestinian diaspora, shedding light on how a predominantly Christian, conservative, and affluent elite has emerged as the backbone of a diasporic community that continues to mobilize around the Palestinian struggle. Through his exploration, Schwabe uncovers how Palestinian diaspora politics intersect with broader efforts to obfuscate the recent Chilean past and its consequences, while also challenging Zionist attempts to negate and erase Palestinian existence. Despite considerable efforts to suppress them, memories persist and traverse porous and ever-shifting geographical and socio-political boundaries, reshaping realities along the way. In examining the paradoxes of remembering and forgetting between Palestine and Chile as interconnected nodes in the intricate realm of global memory politics, the book delineates the boundaries and potentialities of forging solidarity amidst the fault lines of memory.

Moving Memory is an ethnography of remembrance that delves into the complex interplay between post-dictatorship Chile and occupied Palestine, offering fresh perspectives on memory politics as a globally resurgent and increasingly transnational phenomenon. It presents a largely untold narrative of the Palestinian diaspora, shedding light on how a predominantly Christian, conservative, and affluent elite has emerged as the backbone of a diasporic community that continues to mobilize around the Palestinian struggle. Through his exploration, Schwabe uncovers how Palestinian diaspora politics intersect with broader efforts to obfuscate the recent Chilean past and its consequences, while also challenging Zionist attempts to negate and erase Palestinian existence. Despite considerable efforts to suppress them, memories persist and traverse porous and ever-shifting geographical and socio-political boundaries, reshaping realities along the way. In examining the paradoxes of remembering and forgetting between Palestine and Chile as interconnected nodes in the intricate realm of global memory politics, the book delineates the boundaries and potentialities of forging solidarity amidst the fault lines of memory.

Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501769078