CUL233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine, Second Intifada, 1949 Armistice Agreements

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL233
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Graffiti as a contentious form of political participation. Today: graffiti complicates public and corporate space, re-evaluated how graffiti is classified as vandalism ideas of beauty and criminality, going to look at new york in 1970s and streets of melbourne. Used as a military weapon on both sides: argue that in this context, it is an unofficial and illegal form of cultural expression. Today: intifada" uprising in gaza, 1947 un partition plan for palestine was adopted in no 1947 by the general assembly. It recommended partitioning palestine into jewish and arab states. But war broke out and the plan was never implemented: had devastating impacts, continue today, 1948 british withdrew and war broke out, 1949 after 1948 war, israel consolidated control over a large part of the former. Palestine mandate under 1949 armistice agreement w egypt, jordan etc: 1967 in 6-day conflict on three fronts, israel wrests control over the west bank, east.