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DR Yair Wallach's Outputs (2)

Creating a country through currency and stamps: state symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine (2011)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y. (2011). Creating a country through currency and stamps: state symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine. Nations and Nationalism, 17(1), 129-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00470.x

Recent studies have examined the use of currency and stamps for nation-building in various contexts, with these artefacts seen as vehicles for indoc- trination and gaining legitimacy by ruling elites – as a form of ‘‘banal nationalism’’. This article... Read More about Creating a country through currency and stamps: state symbols and nation-building in British-ruled Palestine.

Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine (2011)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y. (2011). Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine. Political Geography, 30(7), 358 - 369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.07.004

The map of Israel/Palestine has long been used by both Israelis and Palestinians, from their unequal power positions, as a celebrated national symbol. It is virtually the same map, depicting a sliver-shaped land between River Jordan and the Mediterra... Read More about Trapped in mirror-images: The rhetoric of maps in Israel/Palestine.