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“Are You Still Alive?”: Survival Politics, Art, and Grief in Visualizing Palestine

Yıl 2025, Sayı: Filistin Özel Sayısı, 59 - 80, 20.04.2025

Hüseyin Serbes

https://doi.org/10.54722/iletisimvediplomasi.1639020

Öz

This research analyses the difficulties and rights violations of the Palestinian people through visual narratives. The Palestinian struggle for freedom has been ongoing for many years, especially under Israel’s military rule and settlement policies. The study focuses on the Visualizing Palestine (VP) platform, which aims to strengthen this struggle and develop an alternative visual language against hegemonic media narratives. The population of this study includes all visual narratives and reports produced on the Palestinian issue, including digital platforms, publications and media content. The sample is specifically selected from VP’s 2021-2023 annual reports and 2023-2025 strategy reports. Using techniques such as Semiotic Analysis, visual content analysis and structural analysis, along with Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) based on Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2006) methodology, this study explores how the visual content of these reports acquires meaning in social, cultural and political contexts. The findings reveal how VP’s visual strategies have reshaped Palestinian identity and historical memory while increasing global awareness and empathy towards the Palestinian issue. The results show that through visual narratives, Palestine’s international visibility is enhanced, awareness of rights violations is strengthened, and global social responses are mobilised. The findings also reveal how visual tools can challenge dominant narratives, promote activism around social justice issues and contribute to the transformation of public discourse.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Palestinian resistance visual narratives identity construction digital platforms social awareness

Teşekkür

The author expresses sincere gratitude to the Visualizing Palestine team for allowing the use of visuals, reports, and documents in this publication aimed at raising awareness and education. This work is dedicated to the Palestinian children, whose hopes transcend borders and whose resilience inspires the world.

Kaynakça

  • Abu-Fadil, M. (1993). Naji al-Ali’s cartoons: A mirror of Arab public opinion. Journal of Palestine Studies, 22(3), 66–77.
  • Amnesty International. (2022). Amnesty International Report 2021/22: The state of the world's human rights. Retrieved from https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2022/03/annual-report-202122/
  • Araeen, R. (2000). A new beginning. Third Text, 14(50), 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528820008576833
  • Banksy. (2005). Wall and Piece. London: Century.
  • Barthes, R. (1982). Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives. In S.-S. Sontag (Ed.), A Barthes Reader (pp. 251–252). New York, NY: Hill and Wang.
  • Baumer, E. P. S., Snyder, J., & Gay, G. K. (2018). Interpretive impacts of text visualization: Mitigating political framing effects. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(4), Article 20, 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3214353
  • Berger, J. (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: BBC & Penguin Books.
  • Bennett, T. (2013). Making culture, changing society. London, England: Routledge.
  • Biger, G. (2008). The boundaries of Israel—Palestine past, present, and future: A critical geographical view. Israel Studies, 13(1), 68–93. Indiana University Press.
  • Boullata, K. (2009). Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present. Saqi Books.
  • Campbell, B. (2009). Genocide as social control. Sociological Theory, 27(2), 150–172.
  • Copeland, S. (2019). Telling stories of terrorism: A framework for applying narrative approaches to the study of militants’ self-accounts. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 11(3), 232–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/19434472.2018.1525417
  • Duncombe, S. (2002). Cultural Resistance Reader. London: Verso.
  • El-Affendi, A. (2024, January 18). The futility of genocide studies after Gaza. Journal of Genocide Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2024.2305525
  • El Shakry, H. (2021). Palestine and the aesthetics of the future impossible. Interventions. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2021.1885471
  • Enwezor, O. (2003). The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition. Research in African Literatures, 34(4), 57–82. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4618328
  • Gardner, A. (2011). Whither the Postcolonial? In H. Belting, J. Birken, A. Buddensieg, & P. Weibel (Eds.), Global studies: Mapping contemporary art and culture (pp. 142–143). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.
  • Gudmundsdottir, S. (2001). Narrative research on school practice. In V. Richardson (Ed.), Fourth Handbook for Research on Teaching (pp. 226–240). New York, NY: MacMillan.
  • Hatoum, N. A. (2021). Decolonizing [in the] future: Scenes of Palestinian temporality. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2021.1963806
  • Kennedy, H., & Hill, R. L. (2017). The pleasure and pain of visualising data in times of data power. Television and New Media, 18(8), 769–782. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476416667823
  • Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2006). Reading images: The grammar of visual design. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • LeVine, M. (2015). When art is the weapon: Culture and resistance confronting violence in the post-uprisings Arab world. Religions, 6, 1277–1313. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel6041277
  • Maasri, Z. (2009). Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War. London & New York: I.B. Tauris.
  • Maharani, N. A. (2024). Social media as a primary source of information: Exploring its role in disseminating the current situation in Palestine. Gema Wiralodra, 15(1), 275–281.
  • Moen, T. (2006). Reflections on the Narrative Research Approach. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 5(4), 56–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690600500405
  • Muhareb, R., Rghebi, E., Clancy, P., Schechla, J., Awad, N., & Abdallah, M. (2022). Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism. Ramallah: Al-Haq.
  • Musih, N. (2021). Bridging memories: Training the imagination to go visiting in Israel/Palestine. Visual Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2021.1979899
  • Najjar, Z. (2015). Writing on the Wall: Conversations with Beirut’s Street Artists (Master’s dissertation). London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Media and Communications.
  • Peshkin, A. (1991). Appendix: In search of subjectivity—One’s own. In A. Peshkin, The Color of Strangers, the Color of Friend (pp. 285–295). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Rancière, J. (2009). Aesthetics and its discontents (S. Corcoran, Trans.). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
  • Schwarz, R. (2011). Media and the making of the Palestinian cause. Arab Media & Society, 14, 1–17.
  • Selvam, M., & Mukherjee, S. (2023). Cultural materialist reading: Visualizing dominant ideologies and dissident discourses in the creative graphic panels of Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir. Creativity Studies, 16(2), 624–636. https://doi.org/10.3846/cs.2023.14785
  • Sulpovar, L. (2011). Fighting Fire With Flame: Visual Storytelling As The Antidote To Negative Media Imagery. Capstone Collection, 2482. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/capstones/2482
  • Sultany, N. (2024, May 9). A threshold crossed: On genocidal intent and the duty to prevent genocide in Palestine. Journal of Genocide Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2024.2351261
  • Stelter, R. (2013). Narrative approaches. In J. Passmore, D. B. Peterson, & T. Freire (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring (pp. 407–425). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Tan, L. J. M. Y. (2021). Towards a postcolonial aesthetic: Art, politics, and the work of literature (Doctoral thesis). Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152347
  • Van Beurden, S. (2016). Art, the “Culture Complex,” and Postcolonial Cultural Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Critical Interventions, 10(3), 255–260. https://doi.org/10.1080/19301944.2016.1227216
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2021). Annual report 2021. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2022). Annual report 2022. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2023). Annual report 2023. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2023). 2023–2025 strategy report. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2024). Visualizing Palestine: A chronicle of colonialism and the struggle for liberation (J. Anderson, A. Batarseh, & Y. El Gazzar, Eds.). Haymarket Books.
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2025). Making Narrative Waves to Turn the Tide of Oppression Toward Justice. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Williams, R. (1985). Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Wise, J. A. (1999). The ecological approach to text visualization. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(13), 1224–1233.

“Hâlâ Hayatta mısın?”: Filistin’in Görselleştirilmesinde Hayatta Kalma Siyaseti, Sanat ve Yas

Yıl 2025, Sayı: Filistin Özel Sayısı, 59 - 80, 20.04.2025

Hüseyin Serbes

https://doi.org/10.54722/iletisimvediplomasi.1639020

Öz

Bu araştırma, Filistin halkının yaşadığı zorlukları ve hak ihlallerini görsel anlatılar aracılığıyla incelemektedir. Filistinlilerin özgürlük mücadelesi, özellikle İsrail’in askerî yönetimi ve yerleşim politikaları altında uzun yıllardır devam etmektedir. Çalışma, bu mücadeleyi güçlendirmek ve hegemonik medya anlatılarına karşı alternatif bir görsel dil geliştirmeyi amaçlayan Visualizing Palestine (VP) platformuna odaklanmaktadır. Bu araştırmanın evreni, dijital platformlar, yayınlar ve medya içerikleri de dâhil olmak üzere Filistin meselesiyle ilgili üretilen tüm görsel anlatıları ve raporları kapsamaktadır. Bu çalışmanın örneklemi ise özellikle VP’nin 2021-2023 yıllık raporları ve 2023-2025 strateji raporlarından seçilmiştir. Bu çalışma, Kress ve Van Leeuwen’in (2006) metodolojisine dayanan Çok Modlu Söylem Analizi (MDA) ile birlikte göstergebilimsel analiz, görsel içerik analizi ve yapısal analiz gibi teknikleri kullanarak, bu raporların görsel içeriğinin sosyal, kültürel ve politik bağlamlarda nasıl anlam kazandığını araştırmaktadır. Bulgular, VP’nin görsel stratejilerinin Filistin kimliğini ve tarihsel hafızayı nasıl yeniden şekillendirdiğini, Filistin meselesine yönelik küresel farkındalığı ve empatiyi nasıl artırdığını ayrıntılı bir şekilde ortaya koymaktadır. VP’nin raporlarından ortaya çıkan sonuçlar, görsel anlatılar aracılığıyla Filistin’in uluslararası görünürlüğünü artırmakta, hak ihlallerine ilişkin farkındalığı güçlendirmekte ve küresel toplumsal tepkileri harekete geçirmektedir. Araştırmanın bulguları ayrıca görsel araçların egemen anlatılara nasıl meydan okuyabileceğini, sosyal adalet meseleleri etrafında aktivizmi nasıl teşvik edebileceğini ve kamusal söylemin dönüşümüne nasıl katkı sağlayabileceğini ortaya koymaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Filistin direnişi görsel anlatılar kimlik inşası dijital platformlar toplumsal farkındalık

Teşekkür

Yazar, farkındalık ve eğitim amaçlı bu yayında görsellerin, raporların ve belgelerin kullanılmasına izin veren Visualizing Palestine ekibine içten teşekkürlerini sunar. Bu çalışma, umutları sınırları aşan ve dirençleri dünyaya ilham veren Filistinli çocuklara adanmıştır.

Kaynakça

  • Abu-Fadil, M. (1993). Naji al-Ali’s cartoons: A mirror of Arab public opinion. Journal of Palestine Studies, 22(3), 66–77.
  • Amnesty International. (2022). Amnesty International Report 2021/22: The state of the world's human rights. Retrieved from https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2022/03/annual-report-202122/
  • Araeen, R. (2000). A new beginning. Third Text, 14(50), 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528820008576833
  • Banksy. (2005). Wall and Piece. London: Century.
  • Barthes, R. (1982). Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives. In S.-S. Sontag (Ed.), A Barthes Reader (pp. 251–252). New York, NY: Hill and Wang.
  • Baumer, E. P. S., Snyder, J., & Gay, G. K. (2018). Interpretive impacts of text visualization: Mitigating political framing effects. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(4), Article 20, 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3214353
  • Berger, J. (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: BBC & Penguin Books.
  • Bennett, T. (2013). Making culture, changing society. London, England: Routledge.
  • Biger, G. (2008). The boundaries of Israel—Palestine past, present, and future: A critical geographical view. Israel Studies, 13(1), 68–93. Indiana University Press.
  • Boullata, K. (2009). Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present. Saqi Books.
  • Campbell, B. (2009). Genocide as social control. Sociological Theory, 27(2), 150–172.
  • Copeland, S. (2019). Telling stories of terrorism: A framework for applying narrative approaches to the study of militants’ self-accounts. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 11(3), 232–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/19434472.2018.1525417
  • Duncombe, S. (2002). Cultural Resistance Reader. London: Verso.
  • El-Affendi, A. (2024, January 18). The futility of genocide studies after Gaza. Journal of Genocide Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2024.2305525
  • El Shakry, H. (2021). Palestine and the aesthetics of the future impossible. Interventions. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2021.1885471
  • Enwezor, O. (2003). The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition. Research in African Literatures, 34(4), 57–82. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4618328
  • Gardner, A. (2011). Whither the Postcolonial? In H. Belting, J. Birken, A. Buddensieg, & P. Weibel (Eds.), Global studies: Mapping contemporary art and culture (pp. 142–143). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.
  • Gudmundsdottir, S. (2001). Narrative research on school practice. In V. Richardson (Ed.), Fourth Handbook for Research on Teaching (pp. 226–240). New York, NY: MacMillan.
  • Hatoum, N. A. (2021). Decolonizing [in the] future: Scenes of Palestinian temporality. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2021.1963806
  • Kennedy, H., & Hill, R. L. (2017). The pleasure and pain of visualising data in times of data power. Television and New Media, 18(8), 769–782. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476416667823
  • Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2006). Reading images: The grammar of visual design. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • LeVine, M. (2015). When art is the weapon: Culture and resistance confronting violence in the post-uprisings Arab world. Religions, 6, 1277–1313. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel6041277
  • Maasri, Z. (2009). Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War. London & New York: I.B. Tauris.
  • Maharani, N. A. (2024). Social media as a primary source of information: Exploring its role in disseminating the current situation in Palestine. Gema Wiralodra, 15(1), 275–281.
  • Moen, T. (2006). Reflections on the Narrative Research Approach. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 5(4), 56–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690600500405
  • Muhareb, R., Rghebi, E., Clancy, P., Schechla, J., Awad, N., & Abdallah, M. (2022). Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism. Ramallah: Al-Haq.
  • Musih, N. (2021). Bridging memories: Training the imagination to go visiting in Israel/Palestine. Visual Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2021.1979899
  • Najjar, Z. (2015). Writing on the Wall: Conversations with Beirut’s Street Artists (Master’s dissertation). London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Media and Communications.
  • Peshkin, A. (1991). Appendix: In search of subjectivity—One’s own. In A. Peshkin, The Color of Strangers, the Color of Friend (pp. 285–295). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Rancière, J. (2009). Aesthetics and its discontents (S. Corcoran, Trans.). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
  • Schwarz, R. (2011). Media and the making of the Palestinian cause. Arab Media & Society, 14, 1–17.
  • Selvam, M., & Mukherjee, S. (2023). Cultural materialist reading: Visualizing dominant ideologies and dissident discourses in the creative graphic panels of Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir. Creativity Studies, 16(2), 624–636. https://doi.org/10.3846/cs.2023.14785
  • Sulpovar, L. (2011). Fighting Fire With Flame: Visual Storytelling As The Antidote To Negative Media Imagery. Capstone Collection, 2482. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/capstones/2482
  • Sultany, N. (2024, May 9). A threshold crossed: On genocidal intent and the duty to prevent genocide in Palestine. Journal of Genocide Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2024.2351261
  • Stelter, R. (2013). Narrative approaches. In J. Passmore, D. B. Peterson, & T. Freire (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring (pp. 407–425). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Tan, L. J. M. Y. (2021). Towards a postcolonial aesthetic: Art, politics, and the work of literature (Doctoral thesis). Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152347
  • Van Beurden, S. (2016). Art, the “Culture Complex,” and Postcolonial Cultural Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Critical Interventions, 10(3), 255–260. https://doi.org/10.1080/19301944.2016.1227216
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2021). Annual report 2021. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2022). Annual report 2022. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2023). Annual report 2023. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2023). 2023–2025 strategy report. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2024). Visualizing Palestine: A chronicle of colonialism and the struggle for liberation (J. Anderson, A. Batarseh, & Y. El Gazzar, Eds.). Haymarket Books.
  • Visualizing Palestine. (2025). Making Narrative Waves to Turn the Tide of Oppression Toward Justice. Visualizing Palestine. Retrieved from https://visualizingpalestine.org
  • Williams, R. (1985). Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Wise, J. A. (1999). The ecological approach to text visualization. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(13), 1224–1233.
Toplam 45 adet kaynakça vardır.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil İngilizce
Konular İletişim Çalışmaları
Bölüm Araştırma Makaleleri
Yazarlar

Hüseyin Serbes 0000-0001-7913-6178

Yayımlanma Tarihi 20 Nisan 2025
Gönderilme Tarihi 13 Şubat 2025
Kabul Tarihi 9 Nisan 2025
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2025 Sayı: Filistin Özel Sayısı

Kaynak Göster

APA Serbes, H. (2025). “Are You Still Alive?”: Survival Politics, Art, and Grief in Visualizing Palestine. İletişim Ve Diplomasi(Filistin Özel Sayısı), 59-80. https://doi.org/10.54722/iletisimvediplomasi.1639020
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