John Harfouch
Biographic Data
| ID | 6703775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Harfouch |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Harfouch |
| SIGNATURE | HARFOUCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama in Huntsville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8705-8680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Resisting Marxism’s Imperial Tendencies
Power in/and the University
The following conversation examines the role of the university in our present moment and examines the necessity of anti-colonial praxis in the academy. The dialogue takes as its starting point the long history of white, heteropatriarchal capitalist supremacy that has oriented the institutional production of knowledge and considers its present permutations in such practices as diversity initiatives in teaching and hiring. The discussants in turn r…
Beyond That Which the Victim Suffers in Death Alone’
I argue that Orientalism constructs Arabs as subjects that cannot suffer violence, particularly the violence of torture. Beginning with Edward Said’s observation that Orientalists represented ‘Arabs’ in the nineteenth-century as inorganic, metallic, and mineralized beings, I trace these themes through various sites in and around Guantanamo Bay. One finds the tropes of Orientalism in the Bybee memo as well as in the diary of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. …
Coexistence and Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa
Anti-colonial Middle Eastern and North African Thought
I argue that while recognition is important for Middle Eastern and North African philosophers in academia and society, recognition alone should not define the anti-colonial movement. BDS provides a better model of engagement because it constructs identities in order to bring about material changes in the academy and beyond. In the first part of the essay, I catalog how MENA thought traditions have been and continue to be suppressed within the aca…
A Subaltern Pain
The scientific and philosophical approach to pain must be supplemented by a hermeneutics studying how racism has complicated the communication of pain. Such an investigation reveals that not only are non-white people seen as credibly speaking their pain, but also pain "science" is one of the ways races have historically been constructed. I illustrate this through a study of Frantz Fanon's clinical writings, along with eighteenth-and nineteenth-ce…
The Arab that Cannot be Killed
A Subaltern Pain
The scientific and philosophical approach to pain must be supplemented by a hermeneutics studying how racism has complicated the communication of pain. Such an investigation reveals that not only are non-white people seen as credibly speaking their pain, but also pain "science" is one of the ways races have historically been constructed. I illustrate this through a study of Frantz Fanon's clinical writings, along with eighteenth-and nineteenth-ce…
The Arab that Cannot be Killed
A Subaltern Pain
The scientific and philosophical approach to pain must be supplemented by a hermeneutics studying how racism has complicated the communication of pain. Such an investigation reveals that not only are non-white people seen as credibly speaking their pain, but also pain "science" is one of the ways races have historically been constructed. I illustrate this through a study of Frantz Fanon's clinical writings, along with eighteenth-and nineteenth-ce…
Anti-colonial Middle Eastern and North African Thought
I argue that while recognition is important for Middle Eastern and North African philosophers in academia and society, recognition alone should not define the anti-colonial movement. BDS provides a better model of engagement because it constructs identities in order to bring about material changes in the academy and beyond. In the first part of the essay, I catalog how MENA thought traditions have been and continue to be suppressed within the aca…
Beyond That Which the Victim Suffers in Death Alone’
I argue that Orientalism constructs Arabs as subjects that cannot suffer violence, particularly the violence of torture. Beginning with Edward Said’s observation that Orientalists represented ‘Arabs’ in the nineteenth-century as inorganic, metallic, and mineralized beings, I trace these themes through various sites in and around Guantanamo Bay. One finds the tropes of Orientalism in the Bybee memo as well as in the diary of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. …
Coexistence and Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa
Power in/and the University
The following conversation examines the role of the university in our present moment and examines the necessity of anti-colonial praxis in the academy. The dialogue takes as its starting point the long history of white, heteropatriarchal capitalist supremacy that has oriented the institutional production of knowledge and considers its present permutations in such practices as diversity initiatives in teaching and hiring. The discussants in turn r…
Resisting Marxism’s Imperial Tendencies
Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)