Michael Vicente Pérez
Biographic Data
| ID | 141941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Vicente Pérez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Vicente |
| FAMILY NAME | Pérez |
| SIGNATURE | PÉREZ M V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1862-5132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transformation, transmission, transgression
This article provides a collaborative autoethnographic analysis of the practice of fasting in the month of Ramadan. Anthropological research on Islam and the life of Muslims have not sufficiently considered daily practices during fasting. In this article, the authors intend to reflexively analyze their experiences of fasting while trying to continue daily life as academics, parents, and subjects immersed in society. For these purposes, the method…
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Reviewed by: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi Michael Vicente Pérez (bio) The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Rashid Khalidi New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. 305 Pages. On October 7, 2023, Hamas operatives breached the Israel-Gaza border and executed an unprecedented attack on military and civilian target…
Rooting the Palestinian Shatat in Jordan
This article presents the concept of dispersed rooting in order to understand the significance of Palestinian visual and material productions in Jordan. The authors argue that the production of art and traditional clothing, as well as the consumption of souvenirs, constitutes rooting practices that connect exiled Palestinians to the broader Palestinian people and homeland within the shifting and negotiated limits of protracted displacement in Jor…
What Jerusalem Means to Us
Reviewed by: What Jerusalem Means to Us: Muslim Perspectives and Reflections ed. by Saliba Sarsar and Carole Monica C Michael Vicente Pérez (bio) What Jerusalem Means to Us: Muslim Perspectives and Reflections Eds. Saliba Sarsar and Carole Monica C. Burnett North Bethesda, MD: Holy Land Books (Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation), 2021. 214 Pages. The history of Jerusalem defies any single narrative. Conquered and ruled by competing forces …
Min Al-Mukhayyam’ (‘From the Camp’)
This article examines the implications of long-term encampment and exile for the meaning of Palestinian identity amongst refugees. It shows how the conditions of Palestinian camps in Jordan function as a key marker of social difference between refugees of the camps and the city. Whereas camp refugees see the hardships of camp life as conditions to be confronted, urban refugees take them as constitutive features of a socially distinct refugee. As …
Living at the LUX
This photo‐essay engages with the central theme of waiting under COVID‐19 among a group of homeless women at the LUX hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. The images and text capture the structural shelter‐in‐place conditions and how the women worked within those regulations to construct a new relationship to time and the self. The images in this essay reflect what we call improvisational waiting , a concept that emphasizes the creative ways women at the …
Life Lived in Relief
Reviewed by: Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics by Ilana Feldman Michael Vicente Pérez Ilana Feldman, Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 336 pp. Life Lived in Relief is Feldman's third monograph and represents the culmination of over a decade of research. Impressive in its scope and depth, the book is one of …
Palestinian refugee women and the Jenin refugee camp
In March 2002, the Israeli military launched its most lethal attack on the West Bank since 1967. In the Jenin refugee camp, the assault included the deliberate destruction of homes and infrastructure including the entire Hawashin neighbourhood. This article considers the memories of Palestinian women who survived the urbicidal war on Jenin and confronted the difficulties of reconstruction. It shows how women enacted particular forms of agency dur…
Materializing the nation in everyday life
The Everyday as Survival among Ex-Gaza Refugees in Jordan
This article examines the role of repetition in the making of everyday life among ex-Gaza refugees in Jordan. It argues that the quotidian struggles of stateless ex-Gazans challenge theories of the everyday that align repetition with domination and creativity with resistance. I suggest that the ability to repeat ordinary activities in work and at home possesses its own form of agential effort: Survival. Concerned with the existential struggles of…
Fifty Years of Refuge in the Gaza Camp
"Free Speech" against Critique
As an open online forum with over seventeen hundred subscribers, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) “Faculty Issues and Concerns” listserv at the University of Washington (UW) allows faculty to communicate across departments and campuses on a variety of topics. With the stated purpose of “advancing the principles of the AAUP and encouraging active discussion of higher education issues and faculty rights,” the listserv provid…
Between religion and nationalism in thePalestinian diaspora
This article examinesPalestinian refugee articulations of thePalestinian homeland and struggle in relation to religion and nationalism. My contention is that the impact ofHamas's electoral victory inPalestine is visible within the discourse ofPalestinians inJordan. This discourse suggests a transformation of the meaning ofPalestinian nationalism in which religion is taking an important albeit complex role in nationalism. Using the concept of inte…
Human rights and the rightless
Sixty years since their displacement, millions of Palestinians continue to share the condition of a stateless people deprived of their basic human rights. Today, over four million registered refugees live beyond historic Palestine and nearly two million remain within 'temporary' refugee camps throughout the Middle East. This paper examines the impact of statelessness upon the human rights of Gaza refugees in Jordan. My analysis concerns the lived…
Palestinian refugee women and the Jenin refugee camp
In March 2002, the Israeli military launched its most lethal attack on the West Bank since 1967. In the Jenin refugee camp, the assault included the deliberate destruction of homes and infrastructure including the entire Hawashin neighbourhood. This article considers the memories of Palestinian women who survived the urbicidal war on Jenin and confronted the difficulties of reconstruction. It shows how women enacted particular forms of agency dur…
Between religion and nationalism in thePalestinian diaspora
This article examinesPalestinian refugee articulations of thePalestinian homeland and struggle in relation to religion and nationalism. My contention is that the impact ofHamas's electoral victory inPalestine is visible within the discourse ofPalestinians inJordan. This discourse suggests a transformation of the meaning ofPalestinian nationalism in which religion is taking an important albeit complex role in nationalism. Using the concept of inte…
Human rights and the rightless
Sixty years since their displacement, millions of Palestinians continue to share the condition of a stateless people deprived of their basic human rights. Today, over four million registered refugees live beyond historic Palestine and nearly two million remain within 'temporary' refugee camps throughout the Middle East. This paper examines the impact of statelessness upon the human rights of Gaza refugees in Jordan. My analysis concerns the lived…
Min Al-Mukhayyam’ (‘From the Camp’)
This article examines the implications of long-term encampment and exile for the meaning of Palestinian identity amongst refugees. It shows how the conditions of Palestinian camps in Jordan function as a key marker of social difference between refugees of the camps and the city. Whereas camp refugees see the hardships of camp life as conditions to be confronted, urban refugees take them as constitutive features of a socially distinct refugee. As …
The Everyday as Survival among Ex-Gaza Refugees in Jordan
This article examines the role of repetition in the making of everyday life among ex-Gaza refugees in Jordan. It argues that the quotidian struggles of stateless ex-Gazans challenge theories of the everyday that align repetition with domination and creativity with resistance. I suggest that the ability to repeat ordinary activities in work and at home possesses its own form of agential effort: Survival. Concerned with the existential struggles of…
Rooting the Palestinian Shatat in Jordan
This article presents the concept of dispersed rooting in order to understand the significance of Palestinian visual and material productions in Jordan. The authors argue that the production of art and traditional clothing, as well as the consumption of souvenirs, constitutes rooting practices that connect exiled Palestinians to the broader Palestinian people and homeland within the shifting and negotiated limits of protracted displacement in Jor…
Living at the LUX
This photo‐essay engages with the central theme of waiting under COVID‐19 among a group of homeless women at the LUX hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. The images and text capture the structural shelter‐in‐place conditions and how the women worked within those regulations to construct a new relationship to time and the self. The images in this essay reflect what we call improvisational waiting , a concept that emphasizes the creative ways women at the …
Human rights and the rightless
Sixty years since their displacement, millions of Palestinians continue to share the condition of a stateless people deprived of their basic human rights. Today, over four million registered refugees live beyond historic Palestine and nearly two million remain within 'temporary' refugee camps throughout the Middle East. This paper examines the impact of statelessness upon the human rights of Gaza refugees in Jordan. My analysis concerns the lived…
Between religion and nationalism in thePalestinian diaspora
This article examinesPalestinian refugee articulations of thePalestinian homeland and struggle in relation to religion and nationalism. My contention is that the impact ofHamas's electoral victory inPalestine is visible within the discourse ofPalestinians inJordan. This discourse suggests a transformation of the meaning ofPalestinian nationalism in which religion is taking an important albeit complex role in nationalism. Using the concept of inte…
Materializing the nation in everyday life
The Everyday as Survival among Ex-Gaza Refugees in Jordan
This article examines the role of repetition in the making of everyday life among ex-Gaza refugees in Jordan. It argues that the quotidian struggles of stateless ex-Gazans challenge theories of the everyday that align repetition with domination and creativity with resistance. I suggest that the ability to repeat ordinary activities in work and at home possesses its own form of agential effort: Survival. Concerned with the existential struggles of…
Fifty Years of Refuge in the Gaza Camp
"Free Speech" against Critique
As an open online forum with over seventeen hundred subscribers, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) “Faculty Issues and Concerns” listserv at the University of Washington (UW) allows faculty to communicate across departments and campuses on a variety of topics. With the stated purpose of “advancing the principles of the AAUP and encouraging active discussion of higher education issues and faculty rights,” the listserv provid…
Palestinian refugee women and the Jenin refugee camp
In March 2002, the Israeli military launched its most lethal attack on the West Bank since 1967. In the Jenin refugee camp, the assault included the deliberate destruction of homes and infrastructure including the entire Hawashin neighbourhood. This article considers the memories of Palestinian women who survived the urbicidal war on Jenin and confronted the difficulties of reconstruction. It shows how women enacted particular forms of agency dur…
Living at the LUX
This photo‐essay engages with the central theme of waiting under COVID‐19 among a group of homeless women at the LUX hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. The images and text capture the structural shelter‐in‐place conditions and how the women worked within those regulations to construct a new relationship to time and the self. The images in this essay reflect what we call improvisational waiting , a concept that emphasizes the creative ways women at the …
Life Lived in Relief
Reviewed by: Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics by Ilana Feldman Michael Vicente Pérez Ilana Feldman, Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 336 pp. Life Lived in Relief is Feldman's third monograph and represents the culmination of over a decade of research. Impressive in its scope and depth, the book is one of …
Min Al-Mukhayyam’ (‘From the Camp’)
This article examines the implications of long-term encampment and exile for the meaning of Palestinian identity amongst refugees. It shows how the conditions of Palestinian camps in Jordan function as a key marker of social difference between refugees of the camps and the city. Whereas camp refugees see the hardships of camp life as conditions to be confronted, urban refugees take them as constitutive features of a socially distinct refugee. As …
What Jerusalem Means to Us
Reviewed by: What Jerusalem Means to Us: Muslim Perspectives and Reflections ed. by Saliba Sarsar and Carole Monica C Michael Vicente Pérez (bio) What Jerusalem Means to Us: Muslim Perspectives and Reflections Eds. Saliba Sarsar and Carole Monica C. Burnett North Bethesda, MD: Holy Land Books (Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation), 2021. 214 Pages. The history of Jerusalem defies any single narrative. Conquered and ruled by competing forces …
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Reviewed by: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi Michael Vicente Pérez (bio) The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Rashid Khalidi New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. 305 Pages. On October 7, 2023, Hamas operatives breached the Israel-Gaza border and executed an unprecedented attack on military and civilian target…
Rooting the Palestinian Shatat in Jordan
This article presents the concept of dispersed rooting in order to understand the significance of Palestinian visual and material productions in Jordan. The authors argue that the production of art and traditional clothing, as well as the consumption of souvenirs, constitutes rooting practices that connect exiled Palestinians to the broader Palestinian people and homeland within the shifting and negotiated limits of protracted displacement in Jor…
Transformation, transmission, transgression
This article provides a collaborative autoethnographic analysis of the practice of fasting in the month of Ramadan. Anthropological research on Islam and the life of Muslims have not sufficiently considered daily practices during fasting. In this article, the authors intend to reflexively analyze their experiences of fasting while trying to continue daily life as academics, parents, and subjects immersed in society. For these purposes, the method…
Sociology (12 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Palestinian refugees (6 works)