Lori A Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 93006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori A Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori A |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8326-8269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 225 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Introduction: Naming the Unfathomable
In reflecting on what anthropologists can contribute to public education about the genocide in Gaza, the co-editors of this special issue recognize the limitations of our tools (facts, words, narratives), audiences (students and teachers of a humanities discipline), and impacts. But, along with the contributors to this issue, we assert the importance of continuing our efforts to witness and denounce, to analyze and explain, to encourage boycott a…
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine
A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine
This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations. More than twenty commissions have been convened over the last century, yet no significant change has resulted from these inquiries. The findings of the very first, the 1919 King-Crane Commission, were suppressed. The Mitchell Committee, convened in …
What's in a Link
This essay analyzes some key moments of transnational Palestinian solidarity politics as a basis for considering the possibilities for challenging the status quo ignited by the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. Throughout modern Palestinian history, political efforts have been built on nationalist identifications and the nation-state as a goal. Alongside the nation as reference point, transnational and intersectional movements an…
Finding indigenous critique in the archives: Thoughts on Didier Fassin's 'The Endurance of Critique
Attending to the production and reception of critique produced by anthropologists' interlocutors, in the field and in the archives, can help shore up the project of critical ethnography called for by Didier Fassin. A comparison of two moments of critique initiated by Fayiz Sayigh on behalf of Palestinians struggling against Israeli colonialism highlights the ways that the same kinds of critique of power gain traction in different institutional an…
Determining Emotions and the Burden of Proof in Investigative Commissions to Palestine
The conflict in Palestine has been the subject of numerous international investigative commissions over the past century. These have been dispatched by governments to determine the causes of violent conflicts and how to resolve them. Commissions both produce and reflect political epistemologies, the social processes and categories by which proof and evidence are produced and mobilized in political claim-making. Using archival and ethnographic sou…
The human right to dominate
The Human Right to Dominate is a compelling book for many reasons. The authors present a clear argument that the relationship between human rights and domination is strong and insidious, and explor
Studying Human Rights in the Middle East: Lingua Franca of Global Politics or Forked Tongue of Donors
The study of human rights has gone through many phases, and the boom in the scholarly industry of human rights studies has yielded many subspecialties, including human rights in particular regions and the intersections of human rights with different religious traditions. One principal area of discussion likely to be of interest to readers of this journal has been the question of Muslim women's human rights and the role of religion in this respect…
Sincerity, Hypocrisy, and Conspiracy Theory in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Concerns about lying and sincerity in politics are common in most societies, as are concerns about conspiracy theories. But in the occupied Palestinian territory, these concerns give rise to particular kinds of effects because of the conditions of Israeli occupation. Political theorists often interpret opacity claims and conspiracy theories as responses to social disorder. In occupied Palestine, disorder and instability are standard. Opacity clai…
The Punishment of Gaza
Gender and Conflict
The scales of occupation: Operation Cast Lead' and the targeting of the Gaza Strip
This article analyses the role of scalar politics in the 22-day Israeli assault on the occupied Gaza Strip that happened in the winter of 2008-9, and argues that practices of organizing and representing different kinds of scale have helped normalize occupation violence. Israeli regulatory mechanisms and a variety of scalar narratives of the occupied Palestinian territory constructed geographical, material and sensorial aspects of space and scale …
The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local edited by Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry
Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh
Martyr bodies in the media: Human rights, aesthetics, and the politics of immediation in the Palestinian intifada
The growth of the human rights regime in the Palestinian occupied territories during the last two decades and the spread of visual media have had an extreme effect on the nature of Palestinian politics and society. They have transformed the way Palestinians represent themselves to each other and to the international community, whereby appeals to human rights help to constitute a human subject with certain kinds of rights that are seen to arise no…
Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation ed. By Lisa Taraki
Book Review| March 01 2008 Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation ed. By Lisa Taraki Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation, Taraki, Lisa, ed. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. Pp. xxx, 296. ISBN 0-8156-3134-0. Lori A. Allen Lori A. Allen University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies …
Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu‐Lughod
Getting by the Occupation: How Violence Became Normal during the Second Palestinian Intifada
The second Palestinian intifada against Israeli occupation, which began in September 2000, saw Palestinian areas repeatedly invaded and shelled by Israeli forces. A long history of war and targeted cities is told along the thoroughfares of Palestinian towns; memories of past battles and defeats inscribed in street signs recall massacres in places like Tel Al-Za'atar and Deir Yasin. But recent events were more important than any official marker an…
W riting an U prising
Writing an Uprising." Journal of Palestine Studies, 37(1), pp. 114–115 Additional informationNotes on contributorsLori AllenLori Allen is an anthropologist and a lecturer in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge
The Polyvalent Politics of Martyr Commemorations in the Palestinian Intifada
During the second Palestinian intifada (uprising), which began in September 2000, martyr funerals and posters were the most predominant form of memorialization. These practices did not constitute simple expressions of nationalist sentiment; they created a public sphere in which participants and observers were hailed as national subjects, while simultaneously generating a forum in which public political debate occurred. This article explores the t…
Social Security: How Palestinians Survive a Humanitarian Crisis
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror and The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber
(2006). Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror and The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 110-113
Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLori A. AllenLori A. Allen, an anthropologist, is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Academics and the Government in the New American Century: An Interview with Rashid Khalidi
Palestinian Children: Dying to Live
Getting by the Occupation: How Violence Became Normal during the Second Palestinian Intifada
The second Palestinian intifada against Israeli occupation, which began in September 2000, saw Palestinian areas repeatedly invaded and shelled by Israeli forces. A long history of war and targeted cities is told along the thoroughfares of Palestinian towns; memories of past battles and defeats inscribed in street signs recall massacres in places like Tel Al-Za'atar and Deir Yasin. But recent events were more important than any official marker an…
Martyr bodies in the media: Human rights, aesthetics, and the politics of immediation in the Palestinian intifada
The growth of the human rights regime in the Palestinian occupied territories during the last two decades and the spread of visual media have had an extreme effect on the nature of Palestinian politics and society. They have transformed the way Palestinians represent themselves to each other and to the international community, whereby appeals to human rights help to constitute a human subject with certain kinds of rights that are seen to arise no…
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine
Determining Emotions and the Burden of Proof in Investigative Commissions to Palestine
The conflict in Palestine has been the subject of numerous international investigative commissions over the past century. These have been dispatched by governments to determine the causes of violent conflicts and how to resolve them. Commissions both produce and reflect political epistemologies, the social processes and categories by which proof and evidence are produced and mobilized in political claim-making. Using archival and ethnographic sou…
Sincerity, Hypocrisy, and Conspiracy Theory in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Concerns about lying and sincerity in politics are common in most societies, as are concerns about conspiracy theories. But in the occupied Palestinian territory, these concerns give rise to particular kinds of effects because of the conditions of Israeli occupation. Political theorists often interpret opacity claims and conspiracy theories as responses to social disorder. In occupied Palestine, disorder and instability are standard. Opacity clai…
The scales of occupation: Operation Cast Lead' and the targeting of the Gaza Strip
This article analyses the role of scalar politics in the 22-day Israeli assault on the occupied Gaza Strip that happened in the winter of 2008-9, and argues that practices of organizing and representing different kinds of scale have helped normalize occupation violence. Israeli regulatory mechanisms and a variety of scalar narratives of the occupied Palestinian territory constructed geographical, material and sensorial aspects of space and scale …
Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLori A. AllenLori A. Allen, an anthropologist, is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Palestinian Children: Dying to Live
Finding indigenous critique in the archives: Thoughts on Didier Fassin's 'The Endurance of Critique
Attending to the production and reception of critique produced by anthropologists' interlocutors, in the field and in the archives, can help shore up the project of critical ethnography called for by Didier Fassin. A comparison of two moments of critique initiated by Fayiz Sayigh on behalf of Palestinians struggling against Israeli colonialism highlights the ways that the same kinds of critique of power gain traction in different institutional an…
Studying Human Rights in the Middle East: Lingua Franca of Global Politics or Forked Tongue of Donors
The study of human rights has gone through many phases, and the boom in the scholarly industry of human rights studies has yielded many subspecialties, including human rights in particular regions and the intersections of human rights with different religious traditions. One principal area of discussion likely to be of interest to readers of this journal has been the question of Muslim women's human rights and the role of religion in this respect…
Introduction: Naming the Unfathomable
In reflecting on what anthropologists can contribute to public education about the genocide in Gaza, the co-editors of this special issue recognize the limitations of our tools (facts, words, narratives), audiences (students and teachers of a humanities discipline), and impacts. But, along with the contributors to this issue, we assert the importance of continuing our efforts to witness and denounce, to analyze and explain, to encourage boycott a…
What's in a Link
This essay analyzes some key moments of transnational Palestinian solidarity politics as a basis for considering the possibilities for challenging the status quo ignited by the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. Throughout modern Palestinian history, political efforts have been built on nationalist identifications and the nation-state as a goal. Alongside the nation as reference point, transnational and intersectional movements an…
Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu‐Lughod
There Are Many Reasons Why: Suicide Bombers and Martyrs in Palestine
Palestinians Debate "Polite" Resistance to Occupation
Commentary: The Travails and Tedium of Conflict‐Zone Fieldwork
Baroud: Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002
(2003). Baroud: Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 102-104
Palestinians' Perspectives
Palestinian Children: Dying to Live
Academics and the Government in the New American Century: An Interview with Rashid Khalidi
The Polyvalent Politics of Martyr Commemorations in the Palestinian Intifada
During the second Palestinian intifada (uprising), which began in September 2000, martyr funerals and posters were the most predominant form of memorialization. These practices did not constitute simple expressions of nationalist sentiment; they created a public sphere in which participants and observers were hailed as national subjects, while simultaneously generating a forum in which public political debate occurred. This article explores the t…
Social Security: How Palestinians Survive a Humanitarian Crisis
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror and The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber
(2006). Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism and Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror and The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 110-113
Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLori A. AllenLori A. Allen, an anthropologist, is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
W riting an U prising
Writing an Uprising." Journal of Palestine Studies, 37(1), pp. 114–115 Additional informationNotes on contributorsLori AllenLori Allen is an anthropologist and a lecturer in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge
Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation ed. By Lisa Taraki
Book Review| March 01 2008 Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation ed. By Lisa Taraki Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation, Taraki, Lisa, ed. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. Pp. xxx, 296. ISBN 0-8156-3134-0. Lori A. Allen Lori A. Allen University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies …
Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu‐Lughod
Getting by the Occupation: How Violence Became Normal during the Second Palestinian Intifada
The second Palestinian intifada against Israeli occupation, which began in September 2000, saw Palestinian areas repeatedly invaded and shelled by Israeli forces. A long history of war and targeted cities is told along the thoroughfares of Palestinian towns; memories of past battles and defeats inscribed in street signs recall massacres in places like Tel Al-Za'atar and Deir Yasin. But recent events were more important than any official marker an…
Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh
Martyr bodies in the media: Human rights, aesthetics, and the politics of immediation in the Palestinian intifada
The growth of the human rights regime in the Palestinian occupied territories during the last two decades and the spread of visual media have had an extreme effect on the nature of Palestinian politics and society. They have transformed the way Palestinians represent themselves to each other and to the international community, whereby appeals to human rights help to constitute a human subject with certain kinds of rights that are seen to arise no…
The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local edited by Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry
Gender and Conflict
The scales of occupation: Operation Cast Lead' and the targeting of the Gaza Strip
This article analyses the role of scalar politics in the 22-day Israeli assault on the occupied Gaza Strip that happened in the winter of 2008-9, and argues that practices of organizing and representing different kinds of scale have helped normalize occupation violence. Israeli regulatory mechanisms and a variety of scalar narratives of the occupied Palestinian territory constructed geographical, material and sensorial aspects of space and scale …
The Punishment of Gaza
The human right to dominate
The Human Right to Dominate is a compelling book for many reasons. The authors present a clear argument that the relationship between human rights and domination is strong and insidious, and explor
Studying Human Rights in the Middle East: Lingua Franca of Global Politics or Forked Tongue of Donors
The study of human rights has gone through many phases, and the boom in the scholarly industry of human rights studies has yielded many subspecialties, including human rights in particular regions and the intersections of human rights with different religious traditions. One principal area of discussion likely to be of interest to readers of this journal has been the question of Muslim women's human rights and the role of religion in this respect…
Sincerity, Hypocrisy, and Conspiracy Theory in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Concerns about lying and sincerity in politics are common in most societies, as are concerns about conspiracy theories. But in the occupied Palestinian territory, these concerns give rise to particular kinds of effects because of the conditions of Israeli occupation. Political theorists often interpret opacity claims and conspiracy theories as responses to social disorder. In occupied Palestine, disorder and instability are standard. Opacity clai…
Finding indigenous critique in the archives: Thoughts on Didier Fassin's 'The Endurance of Critique
Attending to the production and reception of critique produced by anthropologists' interlocutors, in the field and in the archives, can help shore up the project of critical ethnography called for by Didier Fassin. A comparison of two moments of critique initiated by Fayiz Sayigh on behalf of Palestinians struggling against Israeli colonialism highlights the ways that the same kinds of critique of power gain traction in different institutional an…
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