Borderlands

Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

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“…Therefore, scholars such as Stadler and Luz (2015: 127) have analysed the particular venue of Our Lady of the Wall in terms of a new Christian shrine developed as a "political tool by various [human] actors […] in a dispute over borders". This particular research belongs to a wider branch of studies (Alvarez 1995;Nabhan-Warren 2010;Anzaldúa 2012Anzaldúa [1987; Hernández and Campos-Delgado 2015; Lugo 2015; Napolitano 2015) addressing the "role of sacred places and pilgrimage centers in the context of contemporary geopolitical strife and borders disputes", which understands shrines and sacred sites as "becoming more influential in processes of determining physical borders" (Stadler and Luz 2015: 127).…”

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The Israeli-Palestinian Separation Wall and the Assemblage Theory: The Case of the Weekly Rosary at the Icon of Our Lady of the Wall

Farinacci

2017

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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In this work I analyse the ethnographic case study of the icon of Our Lady of the Wall as establishing a unique ritual landscape among the cement slabs of the Israeli-Palestinian Wall separating Jerusalem from Bethlehem. Although the Wall has been widely described as a technology of occupation on one side and as a device to ensure security on the other, through Latour’s concept of assemblages I unearth its agency in developing a Christian shrine. Through a decade of weekly recitations of the Rosary along the Wall near Checkpoint 300, the Elizabethan nuns of the Caritas Baby Hospital have been invoking Mary’s help to dismantle the Wall. This weekly ritual represents both political dissent against the bordering action enacted by the Wall, as well as giving visibility to the plea of the Palestinian Christian right to live in this territory in the face of their status as an ethnoreligious minority.

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confidence: 99%

The Israeli-Palestinian Separation Wall and the Assemblage Theory: The Case of the Weekly Rosary at the Icon of Our Lady of the Wall

Farinacci

2017

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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Borderlands

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The Israeli-Palestinian Separation Wall and the Assemblage Theory: The Case of the Weekly Rosary at the Icon of Our Lady of the Wall

The Israeli-Palestinian Separation Wall and the Assemblage Theory: The Case of the Weekly Rosary at the Icon of Our Lady of the Wall

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