

The Contested Image and Competing Perceptions: How can we read an image?
Photo: Saraste A current aspect of my research is exploring the friction between multiple perceptions of images past and present. "The Contested Image and Competing Perceptions: How can we read an image?" will be shared in the session: “Moving Towards Home: The Feminist Imaginary from Palestine to the Movement for Black Lives” at the 2017 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference: 40 YEARS AFTER COMBAHEE: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movemen

"Excavating the Invisible: Mapping Subaltern Solidarity" in Global Emergent Media LabWIP S
Employing the digital tools used in spatial history, such as GIS and geospatial mapping, to produce new understandings of conflicts, transnational participation and political movements, Sabah's project asks: what does it mean to map the subaltern? Through extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and Pakistan over two years, she gathered a collection of subaltern testimonies and multi-modal evidence that contributes new material to transnational explorations of the Palestinian armed str