Rana Barakat
Biographic Data
| ID | 644764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rana Barakat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rana |
| FAMILY NAME | Barakat |
| SIGNATURE | BARAKAT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birzeit University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Search of Words: A Temporary Title for Horror
This contribution is a revised version of a presentation given by the author at the most recent annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) for a roundtable under the title: "Academic Excellence, Political Activism, and Solidarity with Palestine and the Projects of Comparative, Global, and Critical Native Studies" held on Friday, June 7, 2024, in Bodø, Norway. In addition to the edited text of the presentation…
Openings after the Last Sky
I cannot remember the details of the first of several COVID-19 lockdowns in Palestine. As time under the weight of the pandemic has bled into itself, it has become harder to recall a linear story. A global pandemic and settler occupation meant that lockdown was like a button the Israeli army could push to stop life. I remember walking through the empty streets of Ramallah and coaxing myself to look up to the sky. The open sky was an aberration fr…
Ramadan Does Not Come for Free”: Refusal as New and Ongoing in Palestine
This essay reflecting on the most recent uprising in Palestine argues for an understanding of refusal as ongoing. It reads the enormity of events taking place in a short period of time over the late spring and early summer of 2021 as historical. Focusing on Jerusalem as an epicenter, the essay uses the concepts of “refusal” and “ongoing” as a lens with which to understand the events as both novel and as part of a longer history that continues uni…
The Right to Maim and Its Implications for Palestine Studies
This review essay is an attempt to read Jasbir K. Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability in Palestine studies. It argues that by revealing how settler power, colonial violence, and imperial havoc shape the mechanisms, structures, and systems that target resistance, The Right to Maim both contributes to and disrupts the field of Palestine studies. Exploring the implications of Puar's thesis about maiming as a tool of settler colo…
Reading Palestinian agency in mandate history: The narrative of the Buraq Revolt as anti-relational
Posited as ‘post-national’ and articulated as ‘relational,’ recent historiography of the mandate period has had a long-term effect on how we read (and have been warned not to read) nationalism and resistance in Palestine. Beyond a critical survey of a select part of this recent historical literature, this essay shows how the question of nationalism has been framed in only one way and towards one end. Using this critical reading of the historical …
Writing/righting Palestine studies: Settler colonialism, indigenous sovereignty and resisting the ghost(s) of history
This essay explores the limitations of a settler colonial analysis in writing Palestinian history. While the past decade has witnessed a plethora of interventions exploring this very concept, this essay attempts to layout the evolution of the concept within the literature on Palestine. In doing so, the utility of a settler-colonial analysis will become clearer and more substantially grounded in the discursive differences between literatures on Pa…
Lifta, the Nakba, and the Museumification of Palestine's History
Lifta, the Nakba, and the Museumification of Palestine's History Rana Barakat (bio) A man builds a house and says,"I am native now."..."I don't like wars,they end up with monuments." —FROM NAOMI SHIHAB NYE'S "JERUSALEM" before april 1948 and the start of the Nakba war, the "catastrophe" of Zionist settler expulsion of Palestinians to create the state of Israel, Lifta, like all the other urbanized villages in the Jerusalem area, was home to Palest…
The Jerusalem Fellah: Popular Politics in Mandate-Era Palestine
The British Mandate in Palestine was a time of significant change for the social character and demographic feel of Jerusalem. As it grew into a colonial capital and expanding cosmopolitan city, the city became home to a large number of non-elite Arab Palestinians, specifically the fellahin from the villages of the western corridor, who became central to Jerusalem's social, political, and economic life. A great deal has been written about Jerusale…
Ramadan Does Not Come for Free”: Refusal as New and Ongoing in Palestine
This essay reflecting on the most recent uprising in Palestine argues for an understanding of refusal as ongoing. It reads the enormity of events taking place in a short period of time over the late spring and early summer of 2021 as historical. Focusing on Jerusalem as an epicenter, the essay uses the concepts of “refusal” and “ongoing” as a lens with which to understand the events as both novel and as part of a longer history that continues uni…
Lifta, the Nakba, and the Museumification of Palestine's History
Lifta, the Nakba, and the Museumification of Palestine's History Rana Barakat (bio) A man builds a house and says,"I am native now."..."I don't like wars,they end up with monuments." —FROM NAOMI SHIHAB NYE'S "JERUSALEM" before april 1948 and the start of the Nakba war, the "catastrophe" of Zionist settler expulsion of Palestinians to create the state of Israel, Lifta, like all the other urbanized villages in the Jerusalem area, was home to Palest…
Reading Palestinian agency in mandate history: The narrative of the Buraq Revolt as anti-relational
Posited as ‘post-national’ and articulated as ‘relational,’ recent historiography of the mandate period has had a long-term effect on how we read (and have been warned not to read) nationalism and resistance in Palestine. Beyond a critical survey of a select part of this recent historical literature, this essay shows how the question of nationalism has been framed in only one way and towards one end. Using this critical reading of the historical …
The Jerusalem Fellah: Popular Politics in Mandate-Era Palestine
The British Mandate in Palestine was a time of significant change for the social character and demographic feel of Jerusalem. As it grew into a colonial capital and expanding cosmopolitan city, the city became home to a large number of non-elite Arab Palestinians, specifically the fellahin from the villages of the western corridor, who became central to Jerusalem's social, political, and economic life. A great deal has been written about Jerusale…
The Jerusalem Fellah: Popular Politics in Mandate-Era Palestine
The British Mandate in Palestine was a time of significant change for the social character and demographic feel of Jerusalem. As it grew into a colonial capital and expanding cosmopolitan city, the city became home to a large number of non-elite Arab Palestinians, specifically the fellahin from the villages of the western corridor, who became central to Jerusalem's social, political, and economic life. A great deal has been written about Jerusale…
Writing/righting Palestine studies: Settler colonialism, indigenous sovereignty and resisting the ghost(s) of history
This essay explores the limitations of a settler colonial analysis in writing Palestinian history. While the past decade has witnessed a plethora of interventions exploring this very concept, this essay attempts to layout the evolution of the concept within the literature on Palestine. In doing so, the utility of a settler-colonial analysis will become clearer and more substantially grounded in the discursive differences between literatures on Pa…
Lifta, the Nakba, and the Museumification of Palestine's History
Lifta, the Nakba, and the Museumification of Palestine's History Rana Barakat (bio) A man builds a house and says,"I am native now."..."I don't like wars,they end up with monuments." —FROM NAOMI SHIHAB NYE'S "JERUSALEM" before april 1948 and the start of the Nakba war, the "catastrophe" of Zionist settler expulsion of Palestinians to create the state of Israel, Lifta, like all the other urbanized villages in the Jerusalem area, was home to Palest…
The Right to Maim and Its Implications for Palestine Studies
This review essay is an attempt to read Jasbir K. Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability in Palestine studies. It argues that by revealing how settler power, colonial violence, and imperial havoc shape the mechanisms, structures, and systems that target resistance, The Right to Maim both contributes to and disrupts the field of Palestine studies. Exploring the implications of Puar's thesis about maiming as a tool of settler colo…
Reading Palestinian agency in mandate history: The narrative of the Buraq Revolt as anti-relational
Posited as ‘post-national’ and articulated as ‘relational,’ recent historiography of the mandate period has had a long-term effect on how we read (and have been warned not to read) nationalism and resistance in Palestine. Beyond a critical survey of a select part of this recent historical literature, this essay shows how the question of nationalism has been framed in only one way and towards one end. Using this critical reading of the historical …
Ramadan Does Not Come for Free”: Refusal as New and Ongoing in Palestine
This essay reflecting on the most recent uprising in Palestine argues for an understanding of refusal as ongoing. It reads the enormity of events taking place in a short period of time over the late spring and early summer of 2021 as historical. Focusing on Jerusalem as an epicenter, the essay uses the concepts of “refusal” and “ongoing” as a lens with which to understand the events as both novel and as part of a longer history that continues uni…
Openings after the Last Sky
I cannot remember the details of the first of several COVID-19 lockdowns in Palestine. As time under the weight of the pandemic has bled into itself, it has become harder to recall a linear story. A global pandemic and settler occupation meant that lockdown was like a button the Israeli army could push to stop life. I remember walking through the empty streets of Ramallah and coaxing myself to look up to the sky. The open sky was an aberration fr…
In Search of Words: A Temporary Title for Horror
This contribution is a revised version of a presentation given by the author at the most recent annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) for a roundtable under the title: "Academic Excellence, Political Activism, and Solidarity with Palestine and the Projects of Comparative, Global, and Critical Native Studies" held on Friday, June 7, 2024, in Bodø, Norway. In addition to the edited text of the presentation…
History (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Palestine (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works)