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id	eprints-31013
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	Mimicry's role in the way social identities are constructed and deconstructed has considerably enriched our understanding of various power relations. However, as a spatial practice, mimicry has received scant consideration. In what ways can space itself become an object of mimicry? What strategies and practices are involved in the process and what is their political objective? The current paper deals with these questions by focusing on the processes of mimetic spatial production bent on turning Mount Hermon, an occupied territory under Israel's control, into “an ordinary” western ski resort. Yet this concerted effort to normalize a colonial space encountered different kinds of tensions and contradictions that provide a test case to the convoluted ways in which mimicry of space, and not just in space, continually generates various forms of slippage, excess and ambivalences.
format	Journal Article
author	Ram, Moriel
author_facet	Ram, Moriel
authorStr	Ram, Moriel
author_letter	Ram, Moriel
title	White But not Quite: Normalizing Colonial Conquests through Spatial Mimicry
publisher	Wiley
publishDate	2014
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31013/