Papers by Nadera N Shalhoub-Kevorkian
7. State Criminality and Gender-Based Violence
Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
State Criminality and Gender-Based Violence
Duke University Press eBooks, Jun 30, 2023
Unbreakable: The Intimacy of Torture and the Children of Gaza
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 31, 2019
Panel 12 - Outlawing the Truth: Memory Laws and State Violence in the United States, Poland, and Israel/Palestine
The panel will explore three recent attempts of states to regulate public memory of state violenc... more The panel will explore three recent attempts of states to regulate public memory of state violence through law. Dr. Barry Trachtenberg will focus on the definition of antisemitism formulated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2016. Dr. Trachtenberg will examine laws and legal or quasi-legal measures in the US that adopt it in order to suppress and silence criticism of Israeli policies and violence against Palestinians, presenting such criticism as acts of antisemitism. This act of denial, which stems from a major institute of global Holocaust memory, absurdly turns victims into aggressors and goes hand in hand with the Nakba Law in Israel (2011), which Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian will discuss. The Nakba Law criminalizes the marking of Israel’s day of independence as a day of mourning in memory of the Palestinian Nakba: the mass deportations of more than 700,000 Palestinians and the destruction of hundreds of Palestinians villages, neighborhoods, and cities by Israeli forces during the 1948 war. Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian argues that the Nakba Law figures within the larger project of the Israeli state to deny and erase Palestinian history, existence, and the future of Palestinians in their homeland. This memory law in Israel figures within a broader context of recent attempts by state authorities to surveil and shape through laws research, commemoration, and education about the past. Dr. Anat Plocker will deal in her paper with this project in Poland today, where a law from 1998 was amended in 2018 to create what is known as Poland’s Holocaust Law. The law claims that the vast majority of Poles took no part in the persecution and destruction of Jews and Jewish communities in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and anyone in Poland who publicly argues otherwise—including scholars—could be subject to a civil lawsuit. Dr. Plocker traces the roots of the memory law in Poland today to the state’s communist political discourse in the late 1960s about the Holocaust and World War II, illuminating how the goal of protecting the Polish nation and state has crossed, in the last fifty years, ideological and political divides that once seemed impenetrable. The new memory regimes in the United States, Poland, and Israel/Palestine (and elsewhere) have emerged in the era of global Holocaust memory, exposing a cruel irony at its heart. For if the Holocaust could teach us anything, it is that vulnerable groups should be protected from persecuting and violent state authorities that render them foreign and dangerous. Yet this memory culture and these memory regimes aim to protect the state, even when, as in the case of Israel, its documented assault on a group, Palestinians, escalates and intensifies. The panel, then, also aims to shed light on this truth
1. Introduction: Circuits of Power in GBVAW Governance
Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Secrecy as Colonial Violence
I.B.Tauris eBooks, 2023
Critical consciousness from a Palestinian feminist, decolonial perspective: A collective exploratory inquiry
Feminism & Psychology
To date, many studies have documented the devastating impact of the Israeli military occupation i... more To date, many studies have documented the devastating impact of the Israeli military occupation in Palestine, which deprives Palestinians of all basic and human rights. Yet, the interlocking oppressions that characterize the Israeli occupation—as those of other colonial systems—are mostly overlooked, with little attention being devoted in mainstream literature to the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality within the colonial project. With a perspective informed by intersectional feminist studies, decolonial approaches, and liberation psychology, we explored how women in Palestine resist and struggle against the colonial and patriarchal powers present in their lives and, in particular, the role of feminist critical consciousness in this process. Through 21 research-discussions with Palestinian and international but Palestine-experienced feminist activists and researchers, we explored how the concept of critical consciousness (CC) was perceived and encountered within thei...
Persistent faces: Palestinian fatherhood against necropower
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
Feminism and Geopolitics: A Collaborative Project on the Cunning of Gender Violence
Feminist Studies
Growing from Within: The Decolonisation of the Mind
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation
... He often repeated the poet Wadi'a Al Bustard's reply, who said to his daugh... more ... He often repeated the poet Wadi'a Al Bustard's reply, who said to his daughter, who left Palestine to study and was unable to return, but who asked her father to water the jasmine plant. The poet wrote,'Your father waters its soil with tears and blood, not with water. ...
Childhood as Political Capital
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
2020 Impact Award Winner
2020 Impact Award Winner, Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian for her path-breaking research on Israeli... more 2020 Impact Award Winner, Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian for her path-breaking research on Israeli military occupation and state violence against Palestinians through a feminist criminological approach
The Nakba Law and the Ongoing Nakba
Researching women’s victimisation in Palestine: a socio-legal analysis
‘Honour’, 2005
Feminist Except for Palestine: Where Are Feminist Social Workers on Palestine?
Affilia, 2022
Despite international social work commitments to social justice, human dignity, and individual wo... more Despite international social work commitments to social justice, human dignity, and individual worth, feminist social work remains silent on Palestine. Israeli settler colonial violence pushes us to revisit our responsibilities to stand against colonized militarism. We insist that collective liberation is a feminist ethical constant, a political bosom for decolonization, a compass for critical feminist social work. In this article, we extend previously made claims that Palestine is a feminist issue by highlighting four moral imperatives: 1) persistent sumud, (2) gendered impacts of Zionism's settler colonial violence, 3) commitments to justice and liberation, and 4) feminist praxis of narrating violence.
Jerusalem Live: What Does Settler Colonialism Look Like?
Editor’s note: Jerusalem Quarterly thanks Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian for permission to publish ex... more Editor’s note: Jerusalem Quarterly thanks Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian for permission to publish excerpts from her presentation in a plenary session at the Critical Geography conference, entitled “Dreaming a Common Language: Making Race, Sexuality and Gender Matter in Critical Geography.”What does settler colonialism look like in the eyes of Palestinian women? How does it appear to Aida, a 29-year-old pregnant woman from occupied East Jerusalem? How is state terror inscribed on her body? What do we see, or do we not see, in settler-colonized East Jerusalem? What do we hear? Smell? Feel? Sense? What can be said and what remains silent?Let me take you on a brief journey into the aesthetics and politics of settler colonial technologies of violence and what I term the colonizer’s occupation of the senses, as Israel’s everyday terror aims to erase the truth of Palestinian experience. Such colonial liquidation of truth faced Aida as a non-resident in her home and city of birth, and this is ...
“Our Existence Is Upsetting Them”: Gendered Violence and Unchilding in the Naqab
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding, 2019
3. Terrorism and the Birthing Body in Jerusalem
Children as Political Capital: Unchilding and the Incomplete Death
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding, 2019
Caging: From Lydda, 1948, to Hebron, 2018
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding, 2019
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