ce n’est pas un livre mais un article d’ethno-fiction (clin d’oeil à @jean-baptiste) se déroulant 10 ans après la libération de la Palestine et la chute des états-nations de Syrie, Liban, Jordanie.
Time Travel in the Levant and Doing Ethnography in the Future
by Sami Hermez
Abstract: This article might be read as speculative fiction. Yet, with some political imagination and belief, it should be read as what has come to pass—an inevitable reality. This is the first time anyone has exposed the facts of what happens in the Levant after Israel’s collapse. The account is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Bilad AlSham (AlSham for short), approximately ten years after the liberation of Palestine and the fall of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Through conversations with interlocutors from Deir Yasin in the land of AlSham, this article also intervenes in present-day debates around decolonization, arguing that for decolonization not to be mere metaphor, we need to better understand its processes and come to terms with the inevitable armed resistance it employs. Finally, the article also makes a case for the need for time-traveler researchers so that people can have some blueprints for the more hopeful and beautiful world that will inevitably be built.
une lecture qui soigne et qui nous apprend beaucoup…