Culture and politics in Palestine/Israel INTRODUCTION

While the scholarly study of culture as a political sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, the articles in this issue highlight some particular understudies aspects of it: the relations between Arab identity, Mizrahi identity, and Israeli nationalism; the nightclub scene as a field of encounter, appropriation, and exclusion; an analysis of the institutional and political conditions of Palestinian cinema; the implications of the intersectional relationship between gender, ethnicity and national identity in the field of popular culture, and the concrete relations between particular aesthetic forms and symbolic power. The authors come from diverse disciplines, including anthropology, architecture, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, and political science.