Rona Sela

Title

Rona Sela

Rights

Photograph used with permission, all rights belong to author. Photograph taken by Sharon Bareket.

Birthplace

Israel

Primary Sources

Sela, R. (2022). Correction to: Ghosts in the archive: The palestinian villages and the Decolonial archives. GeoJournal: Spatially Integrated Social Sciences and Humanities87(5), 3443–3451. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10569-1

Sela, R. (2021). Resilient Resistance: Colonial Biblical, Archaeological and Ethnographical Imaginaries in the Work of Chalil Raad (Khalīl Raʿd), 1891–1948. In K. Sanchez Summerer and S. Zananiri (Eds). Imaging and Imagining Palestine (pp. 185-226). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437944_007

Sela, R. (2021). A Question of Responsibility. Book Review. Jerusalem Quarterly (85), 137-144. https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1651217

Sela, R. (2018). The genealogy of colonial plunder and erasure–Israel's control over Palestinian archives. Social Semiotics, 28(2), 201-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2017.1291140

Sela, R. (2018). “Imprisoned Photographs”: The Looted Archive of Photo Rissas (Rassas)—Ibrahim and Chalil (Khalil) Rissas. Intermédialités / Intermediality, (32). https://doi.org/10.7202/1058469ar 

Sela, R. (2017). Seized in Beirut: The Plundered Archives of the Palestinian Cinema Institution and Cultural Arts Section. Anthropology of the Middle East, 12(1), 83-114. https://doi.org/10.3167/ame.2017.120107

Sela, R. (2016). The Hump of Colonialism, or The Archive as a Site of Resistance. In Decolonising Archives, 50-57. A Publication of L'Internationale Books, Accesssed July 30, 2023 https://saltonline.org/en/1365/decolonising-archives 

Sela, R. (2013). Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos, and Surveys. Jerusalem Quarterly, (52).

Sela, R. (2009). Presence and absence in “abandoned” Palestinian villages. History of Photography33 i, 71–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290802582970 


Secondary Sources

Desai, C., & Shahwan, R. (2022). Preserving Palestine: Visual Archives, Erased Curriculum, and Counter-Archiving Amid Archival Violence in the Post-Oslo Period. Curriculum Inquiry52(4), 469–489.

Feldinger, L. G. (2018). Palestinian stories reconstructed through films, photographs and artefacts confiscated by Israel. Art Newspaper, 27(302), 12.

Hend Alawadhi. (2013). On What Was, and What Remains: Palestinian Cinema and the Film Archive. IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film1(1), 17–26. https://doi.org/10.22492/ijmcf.1.1.02

Extra Resources

Rona Sela. Website. Accessed October 23, 2023. http://www.ronasela.com/en/details.asp?listid=46

Sela, R. (Director). (2018).  After Looted & Hidden: The Urgent Call of Palestine - An Interview with Zeinab Shaath [documentary diilm]. Rona Sela. http://www.ronasela.com/en/details.asp?listid=85

Sela, R. (Director).Looted and Hidden- Palestinian Archives in Israel – Documentary Film (Director, 2017): https://vimeo.com/213851191

Sela, R. (2017, August 11).  Rona Sela on exposing hidden Palestinian history.  Al Jazeera. Accessed October 23, 2023.  https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/8/11/rona-sela-on-exposing-hidden-palestinian-history

Sela, R. (2014, January 28). Rethinking National Archives in Colonial Countries and Zones of Conflict. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel's National Photography Archives as a Case Study. Ibraaz. Accessed October 23, 2023. https://www.ibraaz.org/essays/78

Collection

Citation

“Rona Sela,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed November 19, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/656.

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