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The Politics of the Trail: Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem

Oded Löwenheim
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Each day, as Oded Löwenheim 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, Löwenheim 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 of 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.
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  • PROLOGUE: Losing Traction in the Hills of Jerusalem
  • INTRODUCTION: Mountain Biking in the Frontier of Jerusalem: An Exploration of External and Internal Landscapes of Conflict
  • CHAPTER 1: Mortal Danger: Two Rides along the Separation Fence
  • CHAPTER 2: A Fence behind a Fence behind a Fence: Riding after the Unknown Soldiers and Looking for a Breach in the Fence
  • CHAPTER 3: Riding to Qalunya, Part I: Truing the Wheel of Time?
  • CHAPTER 4: Riding to Qalunya, Part II: L’Hôte
  • CHAPTER 5: The Last Ride (for the Meanwhile) in the Arazim Valley
  • CONTRADICTIONS: Some Concluding Thoughts about The Politics of the Trail
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2014
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-05212-7 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-07212-5 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-00367-9 (audio download)
  • 978-0-472-12028-4 (ebook)
Subject
  • Middle and Near Eastern Studies
  • Anthropology:Cultural Anthropology
  • Memoir
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