Palestinian women on demonic grounds

Holocaust museums, religious difference, and the struggle for citizenship in Germany

Bibliographic Data

ID6013463
AuthorsSultan Doughan (0009-0006-1167-634X, University of London, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume45
Issue4
Pages374-400
Publication date2025-11-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritique of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0308275x251388537
OpenAlexW7106212487
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited43

This article takes a human geography approach to demonstrate that Palestinian women are placed on “demonic grounds” as that which can cause unpredictable destruction to Germany. The notion of demonic grounds is expanded in this article through the notion of religious difference to ask how geography and religious difference work together to offer a different form of analysis about Palestinian feminism, secularism, and the struggle for citizenship in Germany. The article focuses on the co-construction of race and religious difference of Palestinian women, gendered and spatialized in Holocaust education, and accounts for how Palestinian women are subjugated as Muslim women. Their navigation of Holocaust education in place, however, alters the terrain and enables them to emerge as agentive Palestinian feminist subjects, who upset the cartographic order of German secularism. The article shows that the struggle for citizenship in Germany is entangled with Palestine, enabled and denied through Holocaust education

Agency (philosophy · Citizenship · German · Islamophobia · Order (exchange · The Holocaust · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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