Explosive legacies
Gaza and colonial aphasia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3597329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yasmin Gunaratnam (0000-0002-9025-4981, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-23 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380261251333918 |
| OpenAlex | W4409599772 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
Israel's deadly 2023 military assault on Gaza - recognised as genocide by humanitarian organisations - is at the heart of this article. We now know much more about the political economy of Israel's settler colonialism, in which leading institutions in North America and Europe, including universities, are embedded. And yet our anticolonial solidarity remains at best glitchy and unreliable. Rather than defaulting to complicity as an explanation, I turn to the lasting effects of colonial explosive violence on the discipline and on the falling short of some of our foundational late twentieth-century critical concepts and methods. As well as advocating for an involved public sociology, including an academic boycott of Israel, I call for a reckoning with Sociology's colonial aphasia and the legacies of its historically ambivalent solidarity with anticolonial struggles
Ancient history · Aphasia · Archaeology · Colonialism · Criminology · Explosive material · Gaza strip · Palestine · Psychiatry · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Psychology
Beginnings
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954–62
England’s military heartland
Laundering Black Rage
Sexing the Self
Antiracism
Towers of Ivory and Steel
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Desiring Whiteness
Facts on the Ground
Life and Words
American Sociological Association
The Position of the Unthought
Pushed to the edge
The anti-feminism of anti-trans feminism
Presenting the (Dictatorial) Past in Contemporary Argentina
Shifting the Subject
Reframing Public Health in Wartime
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality
Affective solidarity
The Nonperformativity of Antiracism
A Cut in Relationality
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Sensing a Post-Colonial Bourdieu
Genocide, neutrality and the university sector
We are forever traumatized' - Aseel Baidoun interviewed by Cairsti Russell
Once upon a Problem
Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine
Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims
Situated Knowledges
Colonial Aphasia
Sociology Faces the Question of Palestine
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |