Sophie Richter-Devroe
Biographic Data
| ID | 89455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Richter-Devroe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Richter-Devroe |
| SIGNATURE | RICHTER-DEVROE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1468-5923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Performances of vulnerability: Migrants' encounters with health, state and the law in Italy and Greece
Vulnerability has become an important criterion applied by states and humanitarian actors in their migration management. In the health sector specifically, those classified as ‘vulnerable’ can qualify for benefits such as housing, mobility and/or asylum. In this paper, we look at how vulnerability operates in refugee health management in the European Union. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Greece and Italy, we trace the ways in which two main a…
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations
This Special Issue analyses how forced migrants’ and non-citizens’ kinning and de-kinning practices and their struggles of ‘doing family’ constitute navigations of citizenship. Forced migrants and non-citizens need to manoeuvre an intersecting net of different bureaucratic, political and legal, but also kin-related social and cultural regimes. In their encounters with state authorities, bureaucrats, and humanitarian workers, and through the mater…
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU
This paper analyses how kinship in its intersection with the law shapes female migrants’ gendered vulnerabilities, but also their political subjecthood. My ethnographic fieldwork in Athens from 2017–2020 with young adult Syrian women shows that female migrants prefer to remain undocumented in Greece, because so-called ‘illegal’ smuggling routes remain their best bet for reaching Central/Northern Europe. I read their strategies of ‘self-il/legalis…
Palestinian Refugees of the Oslo Generation: Thinking beyond the Nation
This article analyzes the political narratives and critiques of young Palestinian refugees who have grown up in the bleak post-Oslo period. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with refugee youth in Jordan and the West Bank between 2009 and 2014, I show that this generation of refugees endorses a collective Palestinian identity and peoplehood with claims to the (home)land while also narrating their identities and relations to …
Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
What does doing politics mean in a context of occupation, settler-colonialism, and prolonged state violence such as Palestine? This book traces Palestinian women’s forms of political activism, ranging from peacebuilding and popular resistance to their everyday survival and coping strategies. Over the last decades, the Israeli occupation has tightened its grip on Palestinian life; settler-colonial violence against Palestinians has risen, and Pales…
Palestine beyond National Frames
The “national” has functioned as the affective and symbolic frame for the political project of liberation for Palestinians and has also been the underlying grid of most of the scholarly work on Palestine. This issue goes beyond national frames to disclose a different dimension of the Palestinian politics of liberation. It sheds light on an indigenous population engaged in ongoing and everyday collective resistance to protect their “home” and defe…
Oral Traditions of Naqab Bedouin Women: Challenging Settler-Colonial Representations Through Embodied Performance
The Naqab Bedouin have faced—historically and today—various Israeli settler-colonial practices and discourses aimed at erasing their status as natives of the land. Israeli representations of the Naqab Bedouin often stereotype them as roaming nomads without any links (and consequently rights) to the land or to other Palestinian communities. Naqab Bedouin women's oral and embodied traditions constitute an important challenge to such settler-colonia…
The Politics of Representation: The case of the Naqab Bedouin
Biography, Life History and Orality
The paper traces the ordinary—yet extraordinary—life story of a Bedouin woman, Amneh, in historic Southern Palestine from the 1930s to the 1970s. Amneh’s oral narratives and memories combine the personal and the political, drawing a picture of the lives that the often forgotten Palestinian Bedouin population of the South lived before, during and after the Nakba , the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948. Her counter-narrative challenges and complicate…
The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New perspectives
Part I: Changing Paradigms 1 Introduction: Rethinking the Paradigms - Richard Ratcliffe, Mansour Nasra, Sarab Abu Rabia Qweider, Sophie Richter-Devroe 2 Bedouin Tribes in the Middle East and the Naqab: Changing Dynamics and the New State - Mansour Nsasra 3 The Forgotten Victims of the Palestine Ethnic Cleansing - Ilan Pappe 4 Past and Present in the Discourse of Negev Bedouin Geography and Space: A Critical Review - Yuval Karplus & Avinoam Meir 5…
Women & Conflict in the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence
Maria Holt's book Women & Conflict in the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence makes a welcome addition to the literature on Palestinian refugees. It offers a particularly
Gender, Governance, and International Security
Like Something Sacred: Palestinian Refugees' Narratives on the Right of Return
Like Something Sacred": Palestinian Refugees' Narratives on the Right of Return Get access Sophie Richter-Devroe Sophie Richter-Devroe * * Sophie Richter-Devroe is a Lecturer in Gender and Middle East Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 92–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/h…
Defending Their Land, Protecting Their Men: Palestinian Women's Popular Resistance After the Second Intifada
Popular resistance has, following the recent uprisings in different Arab countries, received increased media and scholarly attention. Yet, the role that women and gender play in civil resistance movements remains understudied. In this article I analyse different forms, contexts and framings of Palestinian women's protest activism after 2000, arguing that their acts can potentially affect social and political change. Although so far unsuccessful i…
A review of 'Emirati Women: Generations of Change' by Jane Bristol-Rhys
Critically Examining UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
Here, we introduce the articles that comprise this special issue of IFJP, entitled, ‘Critically Examining UNSCR 1325’. The aim of this special issue is to examine the implementation of UNSCR 1325 and its implications for women's activism and for peace and security. Given that the articles in this volume approach UNSCR 1325 from various perspectives and in different contexts, our aim in this introduction is to point out a number of conceptual, pol…
‘Here, it’s not about conflict resolution – we can only resist’: Palestinian Women’s Activism in Conflict Resolution and Non-violent Resistance
Gender, Culture, and Conflict Resolution in Palestine
Conflict resolution theory and praxis have been criticized for being insensitive to local cultures and, particularly, for not considering culturally specific gender roles carefully enough. Yet, on the other hand, culturally sensitive and gender-friendly approaches have also been found to be incompatible with each other—so what are we to make of these overlapping and contradictory criticisms of the relatively new scholarly discipline of conflict r…
The Development of Women's Football in Iran. A Perspective on the Future for Women's Sport in the Islamic Republic
Many believe that active participation in sport by Iranian women was effectively ended in the aftermath of the Islamic revolution. However, following the severance of women's sport from the men's s
Critically Examining UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
Here, we introduce the articles that comprise this special issue of IFJP, entitled, ‘Critically Examining UNSCR 1325’. The aim of this special issue is to examine the implementation of UNSCR 1325 and its implications for women's activism and for peace and security. Given that the articles in this volume approach UNSCR 1325 from various perspectives and in different contexts, our aim in this introduction is to point out a number of conceptual, pol…
Like Something Sacred: Palestinian Refugees' Narratives on the Right of Return
Like Something Sacred": Palestinian Refugees' Narratives on the Right of Return Get access Sophie Richter-Devroe Sophie Richter-Devroe * * Sophie Richter-Devroe is a Lecturer in Gender and Middle East Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 92–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/h…
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations
This Special Issue analyses how forced migrants’ and non-citizens’ kinning and de-kinning practices and their struggles of ‘doing family’ constitute navigations of citizenship. Forced migrants and non-citizens need to manoeuvre an intersecting net of different bureaucratic, political and legal, but also kin-related social and cultural regimes. In their encounters with state authorities, bureaucrats, and humanitarian workers, and through the mater…
Palestinian Refugees of the Oslo Generation: Thinking beyond the Nation
This article analyzes the political narratives and critiques of young Palestinian refugees who have grown up in the bleak post-Oslo period. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with refugee youth in Jordan and the West Bank between 2009 and 2014, I show that this generation of refugees endorses a collective Palestinian identity and peoplehood with claims to the (home)land while also narrating their identities and relations to …
Defending Their Land, Protecting Their Men: Palestinian Women's Popular Resistance After the Second Intifada
Popular resistance has, following the recent uprisings in different Arab countries, received increased media and scholarly attention. Yet, the role that women and gender play in civil resistance movements remains understudied. In this article I analyse different forms, contexts and framings of Palestinian women's protest activism after 2000, arguing that their acts can potentially affect social and political change. Although so far unsuccessful i…
Gender, Culture, and Conflict Resolution in Palestine
Conflict resolution theory and praxis have been criticized for being insensitive to local cultures and, particularly, for not considering culturally specific gender roles carefully enough. Yet, on the other hand, culturally sensitive and gender-friendly approaches have also been found to be incompatible with each other—so what are we to make of these overlapping and contradictory criticisms of the relatively new scholarly discipline of conflict r…
Biography, Life History and Orality
The paper traces the ordinary—yet extraordinary—life story of a Bedouin woman, Amneh, in historic Southern Palestine from the 1930s to the 1970s. Amneh’s oral narratives and memories combine the personal and the political, drawing a picture of the lives that the often forgotten Palestinian Bedouin population of the South lived before, during and after the Nakba , the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948. Her counter-narrative challenges and complicate…
The Development of Women's Football in Iran. A Perspective on the Future for Women's Sport in the Islamic Republic
Many believe that active participation in sport by Iranian women was effectively ended in the aftermath of the Islamic revolution. However, following the severance of women's sport from the men's s
Performances of vulnerability: Migrants' encounters with health, state and the law in Italy and Greece
Vulnerability has become an important criterion applied by states and humanitarian actors in their migration management. In the health sector specifically, those classified as ‘vulnerable’ can qualify for benefits such as housing, mobility and/or asylum. In this paper, we look at how vulnerability operates in refugee health management in the European Union. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Greece and Italy, we trace the ways in which two main a…
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU
This paper analyses how kinship in its intersection with the law shapes female migrants’ gendered vulnerabilities, but also their political subjecthood. My ethnographic fieldwork in Athens from 2017–2020 with young adult Syrian women shows that female migrants prefer to remain undocumented in Greece, because so-called ‘illegal’ smuggling routes remain their best bet for reaching Central/Northern Europe. I read their strategies of ‘self-il/legalis…
The Development of Women's Football in Iran. A Perspective on the Future for Women's Sport in the Islamic Republic
Many believe that active participation in sport by Iranian women was effectively ended in the aftermath of the Islamic revolution. However, following the severance of women's sport from the men's s
Gender, Culture, and Conflict Resolution in Palestine
Conflict resolution theory and praxis have been criticized for being insensitive to local cultures and, particularly, for not considering culturally specific gender roles carefully enough. Yet, on the other hand, culturally sensitive and gender-friendly approaches have also been found to be incompatible with each other—so what are we to make of these overlapping and contradictory criticisms of the relatively new scholarly discipline of conflict r…
‘Here, it’s not about conflict resolution – we can only resist’: Palestinian Women’s Activism in Conflict Resolution and Non-violent Resistance
A review of 'Emirati Women: Generations of Change' by Jane Bristol-Rhys
Critically Examining UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
Here, we introduce the articles that comprise this special issue of IFJP, entitled, ‘Critically Examining UNSCR 1325’. The aim of this special issue is to examine the implementation of UNSCR 1325 and its implications for women's activism and for peace and security. Given that the articles in this volume approach UNSCR 1325 from various perspectives and in different contexts, our aim in this introduction is to point out a number of conceptual, pol…
Defending Their Land, Protecting Their Men: Palestinian Women's Popular Resistance After the Second Intifada
Popular resistance has, following the recent uprisings in different Arab countries, received increased media and scholarly attention. Yet, the role that women and gender play in civil resistance movements remains understudied. In this article I analyse different forms, contexts and framings of Palestinian women's protest activism after 2000, arguing that their acts can potentially affect social and political change. Although so far unsuccessful i…
Like Something Sacred: Palestinian Refugees' Narratives on the Right of Return
Like Something Sacred": Palestinian Refugees' Narratives on the Right of Return Get access Sophie Richter-Devroe Sophie Richter-Devroe * * Sophie Richter-Devroe is a Lecturer in Gender and Middle East Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 92–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/h…
The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New perspectives
Part I: Changing Paradigms 1 Introduction: Rethinking the Paradigms - Richard Ratcliffe, Mansour Nasra, Sarab Abu Rabia Qweider, Sophie Richter-Devroe 2 Bedouin Tribes in the Middle East and the Naqab: Changing Dynamics and the New State - Mansour Nsasra 3 The Forgotten Victims of the Palestine Ethnic Cleansing - Ilan Pappe 4 Past and Present in the Discourse of Negev Bedouin Geography and Space: A Critical Review - Yuval Karplus & Avinoam Meir 5…
Women & Conflict in the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence
Maria Holt's book Women & Conflict in the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence makes a welcome addition to the literature on Palestinian refugees. It offers a particularly
Gender, Governance, and International Security
Oral Traditions of Naqab Bedouin Women: Challenging Settler-Colonial Representations Through Embodied Performance
The Naqab Bedouin have faced—historically and today—various Israeli settler-colonial practices and discourses aimed at erasing their status as natives of the land. Israeli representations of the Naqab Bedouin often stereotype them as roaming nomads without any links (and consequently rights) to the land or to other Palestinian communities. Naqab Bedouin women's oral and embodied traditions constitute an important challenge to such settler-colonia…
The Politics of Representation: The case of the Naqab Bedouin
Biography, Life History and Orality
The paper traces the ordinary—yet extraordinary—life story of a Bedouin woman, Amneh, in historic Southern Palestine from the 1930s to the 1970s. Amneh’s oral narratives and memories combine the personal and the political, drawing a picture of the lives that the often forgotten Palestinian Bedouin population of the South lived before, during and after the Nakba , the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948. Her counter-narrative challenges and complicate…
Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
What does doing politics mean in a context of occupation, settler-colonialism, and prolonged state violence such as Palestine? This book traces Palestinian women’s forms of political activism, ranging from peacebuilding and popular resistance to their everyday survival and coping strategies. Over the last decades, the Israeli occupation has tightened its grip on Palestinian life; settler-colonial violence against Palestinians has risen, and Pales…
Palestine beyond National Frames
The “national” has functioned as the affective and symbolic frame for the political project of liberation for Palestinians and has also been the underlying grid of most of the scholarly work on Palestine. This issue goes beyond national frames to disclose a different dimension of the Palestinian politics of liberation. It sheds light on an indigenous population engaged in ongoing and everyday collective resistance to protect their “home” and defe…
Palestinian Refugees of the Oslo Generation: Thinking beyond the Nation
This article analyzes the political narratives and critiques of young Palestinian refugees who have grown up in the bleak post-Oslo period. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with refugee youth in Jordan and the West Bank between 2009 and 2014, I show that this generation of refugees endorses a collective Palestinian identity and peoplehood with claims to the (home)land while also narrating their identities and relations to …
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations
This Special Issue analyses how forced migrants’ and non-citizens’ kinning and de-kinning practices and their struggles of ‘doing family’ constitute navigations of citizenship. Forced migrants and non-citizens need to manoeuvre an intersecting net of different bureaucratic, political and legal, but also kin-related social and cultural regimes. In their encounters with state authorities, bureaucrats, and humanitarian workers, and through the mater…
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU
This paper analyses how kinship in its intersection with the law shapes female migrants’ gendered vulnerabilities, but also their political subjecthood. My ethnographic fieldwork in Athens from 2017–2020 with young adult Syrian women shows that female migrants prefer to remain undocumented in Greece, because so-called ‘illegal’ smuggling routes remain their best bet for reaching Central/Northern Europe. I read their strategies of ‘self-il/legalis…
Performances of vulnerability: Migrants' encounters with health, state and the law in Italy and Greece
Vulnerability has become an important criterion applied by states and humanitarian actors in their migration management. In the health sector specifically, those classified as ‘vulnerable’ can qualify for benefits such as housing, mobility and/or asylum. In this paper, we look at how vulnerability operates in refugee health management in the European Union. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Greece and Italy, we trace the ways in which two main a…
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