Sonia Boulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 6656792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Boulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Boulos |
| SIGNATURE | BOULOS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nebrija |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9388-5159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Preaching norms, perverting law, and trading arms
“Europe lost its soul in Gaza,” Josep Borrell remarked, capturing a profound moral and normative crisis in the EU’s self-image as “Normative Power Europe”. This article argues that Gaza operates as a revealer: it exposes the collision between the EU’s proclaimed commitments to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, and its external practices that sustain a partner implicated in mass atrocities. Focusing on arms transfers and EU —Israel eco…
Palestina después de la destrucción de Gaza
Palestina después de la destrucción de Gaza
Interview with Ruba Salih
On the occasion of publishing a special issue of Palestine/Israel Review (PIR) on the decolonization of the city of Haifa, PIR interviewed Ruba Salih, a professor of anthropology at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. Salih’s research focuses on transnational migration and diasporas across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa; Islam and gender; the Palestine question and refugees; and trauma and conflict in the Middle East. She is…
Puede existir ciudadanía sin derecho a la autodeterminación? El caso de los palestinos en Israel
El objetivo de este artículo es revisar la cuestión del régimen de ciudadanía impuesto a los palestinos del 48 (ciudadanos palestinos de Israel) desde la perspectiva de la autodeterminación. Con ello, el artículo intenta alcanzar dos objetivos: primero, explicar cómo la negación del derecho a la autodeterminación a los palestinos del 48, mediante la Ley del Estado-Nación de 2018, forma parte de la lógica de eliminación del régimen colonial de Isr…
New Legal Avenues for a Decolonising Agenda
The recent Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the illegality of Israel's continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has been regarded as groundbreaking. Beyond its implications for Israel's illegal occupation, it can be put in service of a broader decolonising agenda. First, the Advisory Opinion provides an opportunity to promote a structural approach to international legal remedies for the colonisation of P…
Polarización, desconfianza y desinformación en la cobertura mediática
La intensidad de acontecimientos en el contexto sociopolítico y comunicativo en la última década está marcada por la creciente importancia de tres fenómenos: la polarización, la desconfianza y la desinformación. Su protagonismo en el tejido social, en el ámbito político y en el ecosistema mediático ha tenido un impacto en el proyecto europeo. Es en la interrelación de este contexto que surge el triple objetivo de este trabajo que se centra en: 1)…
The “G Word,” Liberal Israeli Elites, and the Prospect of Decolonization
In the wake of Israel’s most recent campaign of genocidal, settler-colonial violence against Palestinians in Gaza, a number of prominent Israeli liberal academics, public intellectuals, and human r
Introduction
The settler-colonial paradigm has gained traction in the study of Palestine/Israel in recent years. The current war in Gaza, with the International Court of Justice ruling that a genocide is plausible, has highlighted the pivotal role of settler colonialism as an analytical framework to understand and contextualize the current wave of apocalyptic violence. At the same time, references to settler colonialism have triggered discursive resistance am…
The EU as a Normative Symbol
Democratization occupied a significant weight in Spain’s accession to the European Economic Community. Accession was viewed as a remedy to Spain’s isolation, ‘backwardness’ and questionable ‘Europeanness’. In this process, proEuropean political and media elites and civil society in Spain constructed the EU as a symbol of modernity and democracy. This article examines how media and political elites in Spain conceptualize the role of the EU as symb…
The War in Ukraine and the EU’s Geopolitical Role in Spanish Media Discourses
The EU’s ability to protect common interests and effectively address the challenges faced by its members relating to external threats is one of the most debated questions in the European landscape. Understandably, the war in Ukraine has had a major impact on discourses regarding the EU Common Security and Defense Policy, granting them more space and thus visibility in the media and public debates. Our study examines Spanish media discourses about…
Polarization in Media Discourses on Europeanization in Spain
Political and media polarization has had a detrimental impact on democratic principles and democratic processes on a global scale. In Europe, such polarization has eroded the trust in national and European institutions and has challenged the basic values that stand at the heart of the European integration project. The aim of this study is to analyze Spanish media discourses on Europeanization, with an attempt to identify key areas in which polari…
Construction of “Normative power Europe”
The conceptualization of the EU as a normative power has become a central theoretical framework in the field of European studies. This concept highlights the EU’s role in the promotion of normative principles, particularly those concerning its core values as laid out in article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. While the majority of academic works on NPE have mostly …
No Such Thing as Acceptable Sexual Orientation Change Efforts
Sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) have received well-founded criticism from multiple fronts for their discriminatory effects and variegated harmful consequences on LGBTQ + people. International human rights institutions had voiced their concern over extreme forms and coercive SOCE, labeling them as torture. However, the legal status of “soft” non-coercive practices (i.e., psychological interventions willingly sought by consumers) is less c…
Obstacles to and opportunities for protecting human rights at the city level
This article focuses on the concept idea of ‘human rights city’ and explores its practice. It starts from the concepts of human rights cities and subsidiarity to explain what a human rights city is and delves into the existing literature identifying the challenges to guarantee human rights in local contexts, such as the legal framework, education and training, the institutional structure, and the resources. Our article is based on an empirical-ba…
La representación de la Unión Europea en los medios de comunicación españoles
Los acontecimientos globales ocurridos en los dos últimos años han dibujado un escenario intenso desde el punto de vista informativo, institucional y político. Los medios de comunicación se han legitimado ante la infodemia causada por la Covid-19 y la Guerra de Ucrania estableciendo una agenda-setting específica en la representación de la Unión Europea. En este contexto, presentamos una investigación que tiene como principal objetivo analizar la …
National Interests Versus Women’s Rights
Polygamy violates the basic human rights of women involved in it. It is an institution that is usually shaped by multiple factors that are not limited to gender discrimination, such as race, ethnicity, and economic status. Within the Bedouin community in Israel, polygamy is the product of internal and State-endorsed patriarchy, and of discriminatory land policies and the forced relocation of Bedouin tribes in the Negev. This article criticizes Is…
Policing the Palestinian National Minority in Israel
Palestinians make up 64% of homicide victims in Israel, even though they constitute 20% of the population. The homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants in Arab towns in Israel is 5.5 times higher than in Jewish towns. The turbulent relationship between the police and Palestinian minority is a key factor for understanding high crime rates in Arab towns. This relationship can by characterised by over-policing political activities and under-policing or…
Towards Reconstructing the Meaning of Inhuman Treatment or Punishment
The prohibition on “inhuman treatment” constitutes one of the central tenets of modern international human rights law. However, in the absence of any legislative definition of the term "inhuman", its interpretation becomes challenging. The aim of this article is to critically analyze the interpretation of the term “inhuman” in international human rights law and to suggest a new approach to defining it. The first part of the article highlights the…
Obstacles to and opportunities for protecting human rights at the city level
This article focuses on the concept idea of ‘human rights city’ and explores its practice. It starts from the concepts of human rights cities and subsidiarity to explain what a human rights city is and delves into the existing literature identifying the challenges to guarantee human rights in local contexts, such as the legal framework, education and training, the institutional structure, and the resources. Our article is based on an empirical-ba…
La representación de la Unión Europea en los medios de comunicación españoles
Los acontecimientos globales ocurridos en los dos últimos años han dibujado un escenario intenso desde el punto de vista informativo, institucional y político. Los medios de comunicación se han legitimado ante la infodemia causada por la Covid-19 y la Guerra de Ucrania estableciendo una agenda-setting específica en la representación de la Unión Europea. En este contexto, presentamos una investigación que tiene como principal objetivo analizar la …
Towards Reconstructing the Meaning of Inhuman Treatment or Punishment
The prohibition on “inhuman treatment” constitutes one of the central tenets of modern international human rights law. However, in the absence of any legislative definition of the term "inhuman", its interpretation becomes challenging. The aim of this article is to critically analyze the interpretation of the term “inhuman” in international human rights law and to suggest a new approach to defining it. The first part of the article highlights the…
Policing the Palestinian National Minority in Israel
Palestinians make up 64% of homicide victims in Israel, even though they constitute 20% of the population. The homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants in Arab towns in Israel is 5.5 times higher than in Jewish towns. The turbulent relationship between the police and Palestinian minority is a key factor for understanding high crime rates in Arab towns. This relationship can by characterised by over-policing political activities and under-policing or…
National Interests Versus Women’s Rights
Polygamy violates the basic human rights of women involved in it. It is an institution that is usually shaped by multiple factors that are not limited to gender discrimination, such as race, ethnicity, and economic status. Within the Bedouin community in Israel, polygamy is the product of internal and State-endorsed patriarchy, and of discriminatory land policies and the forced relocation of Bedouin tribes in the Negev. This article criticizes Is…
No Such Thing as Acceptable Sexual Orientation Change Efforts
Sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) have received well-founded criticism from multiple fronts for their discriminatory effects and variegated harmful consequences on LGBTQ + people. International human rights institutions had voiced their concern over extreme forms and coercive SOCE, labeling them as torture. However, the legal status of “soft” non-coercive practices (i.e., psychological interventions willingly sought by consumers) is less c…
Obstacles to and opportunities for protecting human rights at the city level
This article focuses on the concept idea of ‘human rights city’ and explores its practice. It starts from the concepts of human rights cities and subsidiarity to explain what a human rights city is and delves into the existing literature identifying the challenges to guarantee human rights in local contexts, such as the legal framework, education and training, the institutional structure, and the resources. Our article is based on an empirical-ba…
La representación de la Unión Europea en los medios de comunicación españoles
Los acontecimientos globales ocurridos en los dos últimos años han dibujado un escenario intenso desde el punto de vista informativo, institucional y político. Los medios de comunicación se han legitimado ante la infodemia causada por la Covid-19 y la Guerra de Ucrania estableciendo una agenda-setting específica en la representación de la Unión Europea. En este contexto, presentamos una investigación que tiene como principal objetivo analizar la …
The War in Ukraine and the EU’s Geopolitical Role in Spanish Media Discourses
The EU’s ability to protect common interests and effectively address the challenges faced by its members relating to external threats is one of the most debated questions in the European landscape. Understandably, the war in Ukraine has had a major impact on discourses regarding the EU Common Security and Defense Policy, granting them more space and thus visibility in the media and public debates. Our study examines Spanish media discourses about…
Polarization in Media Discourses on Europeanization in Spain
Political and media polarization has had a detrimental impact on democratic principles and democratic processes on a global scale. In Europe, such polarization has eroded the trust in national and European institutions and has challenged the basic values that stand at the heart of the European integration project. The aim of this study is to analyze Spanish media discourses on Europeanization, with an attempt to identify key areas in which polari…
Construction of “Normative power Europe”
The conceptualization of the EU as a normative power has become a central theoretical framework in the field of European studies. This concept highlights the EU’s role in the promotion of normative principles, particularly those concerning its core values as laid out in article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. While the majority of academic works on NPE have mostly …
Introduction
The settler-colonial paradigm has gained traction in the study of Palestine/Israel in recent years. The current war in Gaza, with the International Court of Justice ruling that a genocide is plausible, has highlighted the pivotal role of settler colonialism as an analytical framework to understand and contextualize the current wave of apocalyptic violence. At the same time, references to settler colonialism have triggered discursive resistance am…
The EU as a Normative Symbol
Democratization occupied a significant weight in Spain’s accession to the European Economic Community. Accession was viewed as a remedy to Spain’s isolation, ‘backwardness’ and questionable ‘Europeanness’. In this process, proEuropean political and media elites and civil society in Spain constructed the EU as a symbol of modernity and democracy. This article examines how media and political elites in Spain conceptualize the role of the EU as symb…
Interview with Ruba Salih
On the occasion of publishing a special issue of Palestine/Israel Review (PIR) on the decolonization of the city of Haifa, PIR interviewed Ruba Salih, a professor of anthropology at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. Salih’s research focuses on transnational migration and diasporas across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa; Islam and gender; the Palestine question and refugees; and trauma and conflict in the Middle East. She is…
Puede existir ciudadanía sin derecho a la autodeterminación? El caso de los palestinos en Israel
El objetivo de este artículo es revisar la cuestión del régimen de ciudadanía impuesto a los palestinos del 48 (ciudadanos palestinos de Israel) desde la perspectiva de la autodeterminación. Con ello, el artículo intenta alcanzar dos objetivos: primero, explicar cómo la negación del derecho a la autodeterminación a los palestinos del 48, mediante la Ley del Estado-Nación de 2018, forma parte de la lógica de eliminación del régimen colonial de Isr…
New Legal Avenues for a Decolonising Agenda
The recent Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the illegality of Israel's continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has been regarded as groundbreaking. Beyond its implications for Israel's illegal occupation, it can be put in service of a broader decolonising agenda. First, the Advisory Opinion provides an opportunity to promote a structural approach to international legal remedies for the colonisation of P…
Polarización, desconfianza y desinformación en la cobertura mediática
La intensidad de acontecimientos en el contexto sociopolítico y comunicativo en la última década está marcada por la creciente importancia de tres fenómenos: la polarización, la desconfianza y la desinformación. Su protagonismo en el tejido social, en el ámbito político y en el ecosistema mediático ha tenido un impacto en el proyecto europeo. Es en la interrelación de este contexto que surge el triple objetivo de este trabajo que se centra en: 1)…
The “G Word,” Liberal Israeli Elites, and the Prospect of Decolonization
In the wake of Israel’s most recent campaign of genocidal, settler-colonial violence against Palestinians in Gaza, a number of prominent Israeli liberal academics, public intellectuals, and human r
Preaching norms, perverting law, and trading arms
“Europe lost its soul in Gaza,” Josep Borrell remarked, capturing a profound moral and normative crisis in the EU’s self-image as “Normative Power Europe”. This article argues that Gaza operates as a revealer: it exposes the collision between the EU’s proclaimed commitments to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, and its external practices that sustain a partner implicated in mass atrocities. Focusing on arms transfers and EU —Israel eco…
Palestina después de la destrucción de Gaza
Palestina después de la destrucción de Gaza
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Human rights (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Human Rights and Immigration (3 works) · Humanities (3 works)