This episode of This is Not a Watermelon is a re-run of a conversation recorded on June 7, 2021 with three of Visualizing Palestine’s team members: Ramzi Jaber, Ahmad Barclay and Jessica Anderson. We are re-running this episode at a time when Visualizing Palestine’s work is more vital than ever.
Visualizing Palestine is a data-visualization platform that produces factual infographics and visuals to build a rights-based narrative of Palestine and the Israeli occupation. In this conversation, we explore the different pillars of Visualizing Palestine's work and process and how the project came into being. Through the work, we consider the structural inequality, apartheid and occupation that form the Palestinian reality today.
Visualizing Palestine (VP) was established in 2012, and is dedicated to using data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. VP envisions a liberated future for Palestinians in a world free from oppression.
Visualizing Palestine’s theory of change is centered on narrative change, with a belief that dominant narratives serve to obscure, justify, and perpetuate oppressive power structures in society. Visualizing Palestine is dedicated to creating narrative interventions that shift these power dynamics, making Palestinian narratives more visible, widely accessible, and powerful as part of wider anti-colonial and anti-racist narratives.
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