The Politics of the Trail(English, Paperback, Loewenheim Oded)

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The Politics of the Trail(English, Paperback, Loewenheim Oded) is written by Loewenheim Oded and published by The University of Michigan Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0472052128 (ISBN 10) and 9780472052127 (ISBN 13).

Each day, as Oded Loewenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings. But for him this connection also generates, paradoxically, feelings and emotions of confusion and estrangement. In The Politics of the Trail, Loewenheim confronts this tension by focusing on his encounters with three places along the trail: the separation fence between Israel and the Palestinians; the ruins of the Palestinian village Qalunya, demolished in 1948; and the trail connecting the largest 9/11 memorial site outside the U.S. with a top-secret nuclear-proof bunker for the Israeli cabinet. He shares the stories of the people he meets along the way and considers how his own subjectivity is shaped by the landscape and culture of conflict. Moreover, he deconstructs, challenges, and resists the concepts and institutions that constitute such a culture and invites conversation about the idea of conflict as a culture.