Demilitarize! Durham 2 Palestine
Upending Circuits of State Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13009235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noura Erakat (0009-0007-8707-6292, Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | State Crime Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2046-6056 • E-ISSN: 2046-6064 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/statecrime.12.2.0166 |
| OpenAlex | W4391889777 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Between 2016 and 2018, Black, Palestinian and Jewish organizations, under the banner of the Demilitarize! Durham 2 Palestine coalition, led a campaign in Durham, North Carolina, that successfully passed a City Council resolution prohibiting US police exchanges with Israel. Based on direct interviews with the activists who led the campaign, this article sets out to trace the history of the Demilitarize! Effort, detailing its chronological developments with an eye on highlighting how Black–Palestinian solidarity continues to function as an anti-imperial analytic. Particularly, it illuminates how settler colonialism unsettles the demarcation between foreign and domestic frontiers thus entwining military and police force expressed in transnational state violence against racialized communities. In doing so, the article will offer and preserve a movement archive developed by activists in Durham. The Demilitarize! Durham 2 Palestine coalition is built upon a rich legacy of local Palestine solidarity activism and its coalitionary efforts focused on a narrative of racialized state violence that directly connected militarized US law enforcement to trainings in Israel thus illuminating the local manifestations of US empire. This article also seeks to use the movement archive to consider how seemingly formidable circuits of state violence that undergird imperial domination are simultaneously vulnerable to attack and dismantlement
Algorithm · Ancient history · Palestine · State (computer science · Computer Science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · Peacebuilding and International Security
| Highly cited | No |
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