Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620672 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian |
| PRENOMES | Nadera |
| SOBRENOME | Shalhoub-Kevorkian |
| ASSINATURA | SHALHOUB-KEVORKIAN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 236 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
From the Grave Upward
How does the Palestinian experience help conceptualize an umbrella understanding of genocides against indigenous peoples, the racialized others, spanning from Africa, Asia, to the Americas, and back to Palestine? Our Southernist political theology decenters sovereignty, beginning instead with those whose lives have been ontologically marginalized—those who are exposed to death, maiming, and dispossession not as exceptions but as constitutive of t…
The Politics of Acquiring the Colonizer’s Language in the Colonial Academy
Oxygen is not for the dead”
Palestinian poet and novelist Hiba Abu Nada, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on October 20, 2023, at the age of 32, taught us that “Oxygen is not for the dead.” Hiba Abu Nada’s (2017) poem, entitled “Our Loneliness,”1 recognizes survivance (Vizenor, 2010)—that is, the active sense of presence and presencing as an endeavor of creating the future (Simpson, 2017)—and asserts Palestinian embodied connections (Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2024) …
Five Pillars of Zionist Genocidal Apparatus
In this paper, I trouble the ways Genocide Studies has engaged with the ongoing genocide in Palestine and the political power embedded in invoking genocide. To begin, I must state that what guides
Racializing human rights
To what extent do political orientation, racial beliefs, and media use contribute to explaining support for human rights violations? To address these question, we draw on Adorno's “authoritarian personality” theory by proposing the concept of “racial syndrome,” resulting in affinity for expressions of support for right-wing ideologies. Using a public opinion survey conducted among Jewish-Israeli adults (N = 1,001), we show that political orientat…
Critical consciousness from a Palestinian feminist, decolonial perspective
To date, many studies have documented the devastating impact of the Israeli military occupation in Palestine, which deprives Palestinians of all basic and human rights. Yet, the interlocking oppressions that characterize the Israeli occupation—as those of other colonial systems—are mostly overlooked, with little attention being devoted in mainstream literature to the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality within the colonial project.…
Feminist Except for Palestine
Despite international social work commitments to social justice, human dignity, and individual worth, feminist social work remains silent on Palestine. Israeli settler colonial violence pushes us to revisit our responsibilities to stand against colonized militarism. We insist that collective liberation is a feminist ethical constant, a political bosom for decolonization, a compass for critical feminist social work. In this article, we extend prev…
Feminism and Geopolitics
We share perspectives from involvement in an international collaborative project culminating in a book titled The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism, (Duke University Press, 2023). Raising questions about the recent feminist "success" in putting gender-based violence and violence against women on the global agenda, as ethnographers, socio-legal scholars, journalists, and activists who focus on the everyday lives of people and th…
Iron Caging the Palestinian Home
When Politics are Sacralized
Over the years, there have been increasing intersections between religious claims and nationalism and their power to frame and govern world politics. When Politics Are Sacralized interdisciplinarily and comparatively examines the fusion between religious claims and nationalism and studies its political manifestations. State and world politics, when determined or framed by nationalism fused with religious claims, can provoke protracted conflict, i…
Children Speaking against Home Arrest
Home arrest (HA), an alternative rehabilitative sentence to the more punitive disposal of imprisonment, is utilised in a range of ways by criminal justice regimes across the world. However, its implementation contains the potential for intimate political intrusion. This paper engages with forty-one testimonials gathered from Palestinian children, young people (aged 12–18 years) and their families, examining their experiences under HA in Occupied …
When Politics Are Sacralized
Secret Penetrabilities
Secrecy as a mode of governance offers a new site to analyze and understand the state’s violence against those living under settler colonial oppression. In this article, we investigate the Israeli state’s policies and use of “secret information” to violate, infiltrate, and penetrate Palestinian women’s lives, bodies, psyches, and minds in Occupied East Jerusalem. By sharing Palestinian women’s narratives, we offer a glimpse into the operation of …
Necropenology
In theorising penal politics, this article investigates the marking of the colonised through an analysis of state violence over dead bodies. Delving into and describing the political scene in which the state – through its courts, law, military, and police – leaves dead bodies bleeding after death, withholds them in carceral refrigerators, and tortures their communities, uncovers what I define as necropenology. Developed from the voices of Jerusal…
Engaged Academia in a Conflict Zone? Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding deepens understanding of children as political capital in the hands of those in power, critically engaging children's voices alongside archival, historical, and ethnographic material in Palestine. Offering the concept of unchilding', Shalhoub-Kevorkian exposes the political work of violence designed to create, direct, govern, transform, and …
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
"This book documents the words and chronicles of Palestinian children. In working on this project, I consulted with the narratives of the elderly who survived the Nakba (the Palestinian catastrophe) and of their children who are still marked by violence in their lives and on their bodies. My analyses are framed by my observations as a Palestinian-Armenian social worker, criminologist, and sociolegal scholar.
At the Limits of Justice
Arrested Childhood in Spaces of Indifference
This article discusses the role of the Israeli politico-legal system in framing and constructing the racialization of children and childhood. Drawing on accounts of colonial violence inflicted upon incarcerated children’s bodies and lives, and based on Sherene Razack’s critical analyses on the “pervasiveness of indifference,” we demonstrate how the criminal justice system is fundamental to the Israeli state’s targeting of Palestinian children and…
Child Arrest, Settler Colonialism, and the Israeli Juvenile System
Based on three interrelated theoretical frameworks—institutional racism, settler colonialism and security reasoning—the study examines child arrests in Occupied East Jerusalem (OEJ), addressing how the Israeli justice and law enforcement systems treat Palestinian children. Through analyses of Knesset protocols, court watch participatory observations, review of court proceedings and verdicts, interviews with children, families and professionals in…
Gendered Suffering and the Eviction of the Native
The treatment of pregnant women in Palestine offers an important perspective on the interlocking power of gender and race in the context of settler colonialism. However, the gendered violence experienced by pregnant women remains mostly invisible. This chapter shares the voices of pregnant Palestinians to explore how they experience specific forms of gendered violence in a militarized and occupied homeland. It explains the steps taken by Israel t…
Settler Colonialism, Surveillance, and Fear
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The Biopolitics of Israeli Settler Colonialism
In the unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Naqab, Palestinians suffer from state negligence, deprived of equal representation and access to essential services like healthcare and education. Whereas previous scholarship points to cultural, lifestyle, or societal conditions to account for the trends of poor health and education in Bedouin communities, this article seeks to identify the underlying structures of dispossession that produce everyday o…
Is the Violence of Tag Mehir a State Crime
This article focuses on the violent acts of Tag-Mehir (Price Tag), a group of Israeli citizens that injure, attack, vandalize and violate Palestinian individuals, communities and property. The paper discusses the criminalities of Tag-Mehir by reporting statistics on their crimes and juxtaposing statistical data with voices and analyses of Israeli officials and media coverage. By looking at the interlocking effects of religious, hate and state cri…
The Occupation of the Senses
Colonial and settler colonial dispossession is performed through various forms of violence, justified by cultural, historical, religious and national imperatives. In this paper, I define one of these forms of violence as the occupation of the senses, referring to the sensory technologies that manage bodies, language, sight, time and space in the colony. This paper analyses the parades, marches and festivals performed in the Palestinian city space…
Femicide and the Palestinian Criminal Justice System
Despite the criminalization of abuses inflicted upon women, laws are still considered major sources of women's oppression. This article discusses how Palestinian society and its criminal justice system, during a politically formative period of state building, relates to "femicide." Femicide in this study pertains to the murder of girls or women for allegedly committing "crimes of family honor." Official statistics, Cassation Court rulings, and si…
Liberating voices
Counter-Spaces as Resistance in Conflict Zones
Women's voices, roles, and contributions are die most misunderstood issues in the analysis of war zones and conflict areas. This paper brings the feminist lens into the analysis of Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It examines the effect and legacy of policies inflicted by the doctrines of "no safe haven" and of "security reasoning" in relation to women, explores the way it shapes women's interactions with their family mem…
The Occupation of the Senses
Colonial and settler colonial dispossession is performed through various forms of violence, justified by cultural, historical, religious and national imperatives. In this paper, I define one of these forms of violence as the occupation of the senses, referring to the sensory technologies that manage bodies, language, sight, time and space in the colony. This paper analyses the parades, marches and festivals performed in the Palestinian city space…
Towards a cultural definition of rape
The Politics of Birth and the Intimacies of Violence Against Palestinian Women in Occupied East Jerusalem
Focusing on the embodiment of violence against pregnant women, this paper borrows from Palestinian women’s own words and descriptions to reveal intimate aspects of aggression against and surveillance over their bodies and lives. The paper examines both the effects of violence on young mothers and their community and the denial of violence by the settler colonial state. I emphasize the structural regime that exacerbates such aggression, as well as…
The Political Economy of Children's Trauma
Imposition of virginity testing
Tolerating Battering
This article examines how invisible methods of social control contribute to the tolerance of battering amongst women. The study is based on the responses of 173 Palestinian women selected randomly from the East Jerusalem area, and who were interviewed to assess their perception and response to wife battering. Quantitative and qualitative data collected on the respondents suggest that while women do not accept violence practised on them, they tole…
The Efficacy of Israeli Law in Preventing Violence Within Palestinian Families Living in Israel
Changes in public attitudes to violence have given rise to debates about the proper relationship between gender, violence and the role of the State. This study of Palestinians living in Israel examines the appropriateness of formal legal interventions in spousal assault cases for a community with different cultural values, including a mistrust of state intervention and the legal order. Structured interviews with welfare professionals in 55 cases …
The Grammar of Rights in Colonial Contexts
This article examines the limitations of human rights activism in a colonial context by invoking the voices, experiences, and insights of Bedouin women living in Israel. Through extensive interviews, Bedouin women living in unrecognized villages in the Naqab/Negev reveal their struggles as unrecognized and “invisible” members of society. The article explores the ways in which the prevailing “grammar of rights”—the formal and informal mechanisms c…
Integrating a Victim Voice in Community Policing
The article addresses the role of victim's voice in community policing of violence against women. Using Israel as a case study, with its minority Arab and majority Jewish communities, we show the paradoxes of adhering to community policing tenets in a highly collectivist community, and when divergence and conflict rather than congruence and consensus characterize the relations between the police, the minority community and its victims. The articl…
Feminist Except for Palestine
Despite international social work commitments to social justice, human dignity, and individual worth, feminist social work remains silent on Palestine. Israeli settler colonial violence pushes us to revisit our responsibilities to stand against colonized militarism. We insist that collective liberation is a feminist ethical constant, a political bosom for decolonization, a compass for critical feminist social work. In this article, we extend prev…
Negotiating the Present, Historicizing the Future
Children living in conflict zones witness violence, loss of loved ones, killing, injury, and displacement, experiencing fear and loss of protection in their communities-experiences likely to affect the children for the remainder of their lives. This article examines one aspect of the violent conflict in the Palestinian Occupied Territories-West Bank, the way Palestinian children perceive and react to the effect of Israeli military occupation as r…
Using the Dialogue Tent to Break Mental Chains
Women are silenced by gender-biased practices that reward their obedience and punish them for speaking out. This is especially true of Palestinian women who live under socio-political oppression and are faced with a social reality that is sexist, patriarchal, and discriminatory. The dialogue tent introduced here offered a safe space for Palestinian women to break silence, critically consider their own experiences, and conceptualize and voice thei…
Arrested Childhood in Spaces of Indifference
This article discusses the role of the Israeli politico-legal system in framing and constructing the racialization of children and childhood. Drawing on accounts of colonial violence inflicted upon incarcerated children’s bodies and lives, and based on Sherene Razack’s critical analyses on the “pervasiveness of indifference,” we demonstrate how the criminal justice system is fundamental to the Israeli state’s targeting of Palestinian children and…
Funding Pain
This contribution focuses on the experiences and voices of Palestinian Bedouin women surviving and challenging Israeli colonial policies while residing in their own land and, in particular, the Bedouin women of the Naqab living in unrecognized villages. Through interviews and focus groups, this study learns from and engages with the voices of Palestinian Bedouin women because colonized women's criticisms of the political economic apparatus are se…
Palestinian women's voices challenging human rights activism
Children Speaking against Home Arrest
Home arrest (HA), an alternative rehabilitative sentence to the more punitive disposal of imprisonment, is utilised in a range of ways by criminal justice regimes across the world. However, its implementation contains the potential for intimate political intrusion. This paper engages with forty-one testimonials gathered from Palestinian children, young people (aged 12–18 years) and their families, examining their experiences under HA in Occupied …
Secret Penetrabilities
Secrecy as a mode of governance offers a new site to analyze and understand the state’s violence against those living under settler colonial oppression. In this article, we investigate the Israeli state’s policies and use of “secret information” to violate, infiltrate, and penetrate Palestinian women’s lives, bodies, psyches, and minds in Occupied East Jerusalem. By sharing Palestinian women’s narratives, we offer a glimpse into the operation of …
Infiltrated Intimacies
This essay examines Palestinian women’s struggles following the 1948 Nakba, when many challenged their uprooting by attempting to return back to their homes and land. Analyzing women’s narratives recounting their experiences from 1948 to 1953 within the context of the settler-colonial regime of control, the essay reveals Israel’s criminalization of the return of Palestinian refugees as acts of “infiltration,” and the unspoken gendered history of …
At the limits of the human
Drawing from David Goldberg's attentiveness to racism and 'postraciality', I read the role of racial violence and terror in the making of Palestine and the Palestinians. The paper shows how Goldberg's book unsettles racialized convictions of postraciality, and deconstructs the uncompromising global narrative of race. Following Goldberg's analysis, this paper challenges racialized Zionist ideologies by considering how we might understand the marki…
Exiled at Home
Drawing on our personal histories navigating the violence of Israeli settler colonialism and militarization, we theorize the Palestinian home space as not only a physical, but also a psychological and epistemological space of yearning, of belonging, and of radical thinking and becoming. In light of the colonial state's continued attempts to further fragment and dislocate indigenous Palestinians from their homeland, we posit an analytics of return…
Critical consciousness from a Palestinian feminist, decolonial perspective
To date, many studies have documented the devastating impact of the Israeli military occupation in Palestine, which deprives Palestinians of all basic and human rights. Yet, the interlocking oppressions that characterize the Israeli occupation—as those of other colonial systems—are mostly overlooked, with little attention being devoted in mainstream literature to the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality within the colonial project.…
Feminism and Geopolitics
We share perspectives from involvement in an international collaborative project culminating in a book titled The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism, (Duke University Press, 2023). Raising questions about the recent feminist "success" in putting gender-based violence and violence against women on the global agenda, as ethnographers, socio-legal scholars, journalists, and activists who focus on the everyday lives of people and th…
Tolerating Battering
This article examines how invisible methods of social control contribute to the tolerance of battering amongst women. The study is based on the responses of 173 Palestinian women selected randomly from the East Jerusalem area, and who were interviewed to assess their perception and response to wife battering. Quantitative and qualitative data collected on the respondents suggest that while women do not accept violence practised on them, they tole…
Towards a cultural definition of rape
The Efficacy of Israeli Law in Preventing Violence Within Palestinian Families Living in Israel
Changes in public attitudes to violence have given rise to debates about the proper relationship between gender, violence and the role of the State. This study of Palestinians living in Israel examines the appropriateness of formal legal interventions in spousal assault cases for a community with different cultural values, including a mistrust of state intervention and the legal order. Structured interviews with welfare professionals in 55 cases …
Women and War in Lebanon
Using the Dialogue Tent to Break Mental Chains
Women are silenced by gender-biased practices that reward their obedience and punish them for speaking out. This is especially true of Palestinian women who live under socio-political oppression and are faced with a social reality that is sexist, patriarchal, and discriminatory. The dialogue tent introduced here offered a safe space for Palestinian women to break silence, critically consider their own experiences, and conceptualize and voice thei…
Integrating a Victim Voice in Community Policing
The article addresses the role of victim's voice in community policing of violence against women. Using Israel as a case study, with its minority Arab and majority Jewish communities, we show the paradoxes of adhering to community policing tenets in a highly collectivist community, and when divergence and conflict rather than congruence and consensus characterize the relations between the police, the minority community and its victims. The articl…
Femicide and the Palestinian Criminal Justice System
Despite the criminalization of abuses inflicted upon women, laws are still considered major sources of women's oppression. This article discusses how Palestinian society and its criminal justice system, during a politically formative period of state building, relates to "femicide." Femicide in this study pertains to the murder of girls or women for allegedly committing "crimes of family honor." Official statistics, Cassation Court rulings, and si…
Liberating voices
Counter-Spaces as Resistance in Conflict Zones
Women's voices, roles, and contributions are die most misunderstood issues in the analysis of war zones and conflict areas. This paper brings the feminist lens into the analysis of Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It examines the effect and legacy of policies inflicted by the doctrines of "no safe haven" and of "security reasoning" in relation to women, explores the way it shapes women's interactions with their family mem…
Imposition of virginity testing
Negotiating the Present, Historicizing the Future
Children living in conflict zones witness violence, loss of loved ones, killing, injury, and displacement, experiencing fear and loss of protection in their communities-experiences likely to affect the children for the remainder of their lives. This article examines one aspect of the violent conflict in the Palestinian Occupied Territories-West Bank, the way Palestinian children perceive and react to the effect of Israeli military occupation as r…
Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East
This book examines and discusses the ordeals that women face as violence is perpetrated against them in politically conflicted and militarized areas. In conflict zones, every act is affected by, dependent on and mobilised by militaristic values. The militarization of both the private and public space and the use of the gendered bodies increases the vulnerability of both men and women, and further masculinises the patriarchal hegemonic powers. Thr…
The Political Economy of Children's Trauma
Palestinian women's voices challenging human rights activism
Victimology Between the Local and the Global
This special issue is about victimization as a very personal experience that is profoundly susceptible to communal forgetting. It includes an important quantitative contribution in the conventional routine activities theory tradition. At the same time, it challenges conventional victimological examinations, while raising critical race, class and gendered issues. The essays herein help us to see more abstract architectures of routine activity that…
Panoptical Web
In this paper we attempt to examine the role of electronic space and its intersection with young women's lives. The article investigates the internet use/abuse of women as embedded in the power structure and the ways it reshapes gender relations and re-constructs women's victimization. In an attempt to expand our understanding of the victimological and criminological implications of the internet for females our case study focuses particularly on …
E-Resistance among Palestinian Women
The proliferation of digital technologies and cyberspace affects the workings of power, challenging the boundaries of space, place, and time. The development of technological infrastructure that operates on both a day-to-day basis and a global scale can enhance women’s chances to resist oppression, but it can also increase crimes against and abuse of women. This article examines the effects of digital technologies on women living in conflict zone…
The Grammar of Rights in Colonial Contexts
This article examines the limitations of human rights activism in a colonial context by invoking the voices, experiences, and insights of Bedouin women living in Israel. Through extensive interviews, Bedouin women living in unrecognized villages in the Naqab/Negev reveal their struggles as unrecognized and “invisible” members of society. The article explores the ways in which the prevailing “grammar of rights”—the formal and informal mechanisms c…
Living death, recovering life
This article examines death and dying in occupied East Jerusalem. It explores practices and subjective experiences of death, and how narratives of the loss of Palestinian individuals, families, and communities ‘give life’ to the ones who died. The author(a Palestinian herself) is close to the community she studies, which gives her privileged access to personal stories and enables her to write from an insider’s perspective. The study analyses the …
Human suffering in colonial contexts
This article investigates the ways in which European colonialism and Zionist settler colonialism evicted the Palestinians from humanity, and how contemporary global racial politics and the emerging “trauma genre” continue to silence and distort their collective suffering and resistance. Specifically, my analysis is inspired by interview material I gathered of experiences of death and dying in East Jerusalem. Drawing from the Israeli legal term “p…
Funding Pain
This contribution focuses on the experiences and voices of Palestinian Bedouin women surviving and challenging Israeli colonial policies while residing in their own land and, in particular, the Bedouin women of the Naqab living in unrecognized villages. Through interviews and focus groups, this study learns from and engages with the voices of Palestinian Bedouin women because colonized women's criticisms of the political economic apparatus are se…
Exiled at Home
Drawing on our personal histories navigating the violence of Israeli settler colonialism and militarization, we theorize the Palestinian home space as not only a physical, but also a psychological and epistemological space of yearning, of belonging, and of radical thinking and becoming. In light of the colonial state's continued attempts to further fragment and dislocate indigenous Palestinians from their homeland, we posit an analytics of return…
Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear
This examination of Palestinian experiences of life and death within the context of Israeli settler colonialism broadens the analytical horizon to include those who 'keep on existing' and explores how Israeli theologies and ideologies of security, surveillance and fear can obscure violence and power dynamics while perpetuating existing power structures. Drawing from everyday aspects of Palestinian victimization, survival, life and death, and movi…
Stolen childhood
A recent article published by the Wadi-Hilweh Information Center of Silwan described the arrest of a four-year-old Palestinian child, Mohammad, from the Al-Sa'dyeh neighborhood of Occupied East Jerusalem. In the early hours of Thursday, 28 November, a large military force broke into the Al-Majed family home. Waking his parents from sleep, the soldiers demanded to see Mohammad. ‘Are you sure?’ his father asked one of them, rubbing the sleep out of…
The Politics of Birth and the Intimacies of Violence Against Palestinian Women in Occupied East Jerusalem
Focusing on the embodiment of violence against pregnant women, this paper borrows from Palestinian women’s own words and descriptions to reveal intimate aspects of aggression against and surveillance over their bodies and lives. The paper examines both the effects of violence on young mothers and their community and the denial of violence by the settler colonial state. I emphasize the structural regime that exacerbates such aggression, as well as…
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