Papers by Nadera Shalhoub
Social Science Research Network, Oct 29, 1999
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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
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Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of U... more Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding deepens understanding of children as political capital in the hands of those in power, critically engaging children's voices alongside archival, historical, and ethnographic material in Palestine. Offering the concept of unchilding', Shalhoub-Kevorkian exposes the political work of violence designed to create, direct, govern, transform, and construct colonized children as dangerous, racialized others, enabling their eviction from the realm of childhood itself. Penetrating children's everyday intimate spaces and, simultaneously, their bodies and lives, unchilding works to enable a complex machinery of violence against Palestinian children: imprisonment, injuries, loss, trauma, and militarized political occupation. At the same time as the book documents violations of children's rights and the consequences this has for their present and future well-being, it charts children's resistance to and power to interrupt colonial violence, reclaiming childhood and, with it, Palestinian futures.
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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 why she decided to take the risk to challenge such untruth.[1] She explains:The past three days were the worst days of my life... having the baby under such stress, needing to catch a bus while experiencing the pain of severe contractions, knowing that I might have the baby on the bus. . . . I had contractions, bad ones; I was dying from fear, pain, ru‘b [terror] . . . real terror . . . holding on to my bag . . . as if the bag can carry the pain, crying my body in silence, wanting to go back to my house . . . to have the baby there . . . But then, the baby would end up without an ID, undocumented, unsecured, displaced . . . mshahhata [displaced] all her life . . . I was giving birth, but living death at the same time . . . and I stopped myself from giving birth . . . hanging onto my bag, squeezing it, promising my unborn to reach the hospital, and have her in Jerusalem. . . . I had her . . . thank God she was healthy . . . but I am tired, still anxious, upset, and agitated . . . but I also feel like I did it.[2]Aida’s fears and anxieties - both on the verge of giving birth and also after giving birth - are a physical and psychological manifestation of the treatment of Palestinians bound by the geopolitics and biopolitics of settler colonial military occupation. The invasion of the occupied body in an occupied time and space situated Aida and her newborn in a geography of fear and within an archeology of constant uncertainty. At the same time, it impelled her to resistance, for indeed, existence itself is a form of resistance for Palestinians, and each day lived a kind of victory.Aida is not alone in her ordeal and her resistance. In the testimonials of various Palestinian women gathered in my study on the politics of birth in occupied East Jerusalem, the body space, the physical space and time, become implicated in their experiences; ironically, time comes to be conceptualized in their words as a place/space of timelessness, an eternity of waiting and wishing for the multiple assaults on their daily lives to be over. Days, months, and moments merge together in a confluence of suffering that is so continuous that the measuring of time passing becomes meaningless, nothing short of impossible.Establishing the Palestinian as a feared “security threat” rather than as the colonized sustains the settler state and enhances and naturalizes its power.[3] Constructing fear in the settler colonial context requires the dispossession of the aboriginal, rendering the latter’s bodies out of place. As Sherene Razack explains: “While indigenous bodies haunt settlers, a too-present reminder that the land is indeed stolen, these bodies must also serve to remind settlers of their own modernity and entitlement to the land.”[4]In pursuing the logic of the colonial framework, Achille Mbembe suggests that colonial occupation combines biopolitical and necropolitical disciplinary power over the body, that is, “the various ways in which, in our contemporary world, weapons are deployed in the interest of maximum destruction of persons and the creation of death-worlds, new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to conditions of life conferring upon them the status of living dead. …
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... Ahmad, my oldest son, worked with them, but then ended up being imprisoned because he was inv... more ... Ahmad, my oldest son, worked with them, but then ended up being imprisoned because he was involved with politics. ... For instance, Maysa shared with us the fact that she decided to enroll in law school at Al Quds University only after meeting with the young female lawyer that ...
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