Israeli settler colonialism, “humanitarian warfare,” and sexual violence in Palestine

Medien, Kathryn

doi:10.1080/14616742.2021.1882323

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“…To avoid historic mistakes and dominant discursive practices that led to the entanglement of humanistic normativity with anti-humanistic actions such as ‘humanitarian’ warfare (Braidotti, 2013; Medien, 2021), we need to stay alert and pinpoint ‘how practices that aim to resist dominant discourses and enable social inclusion might still partially reproduce these discourses in specific instances’ (Kremsner et al, 2022).…”

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Digital Humanism, Progressive Neoliberalism and the European Digital Governance System for Vocational and Adult Education

Schmoelz

2023

Journal of Adult and Continuing Education

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In this article, the European digital governance system for vocational and adult education is critically examined in its single technologies and their interaction as well as theoretically reflected regarding potential dangers and opportunities based on the digital humanism and neoliberalism. The single digital technologies are described and critically scrutinised through expert interviews as well as the analysis of central policies, political decisions making (politics) and in the current technological modus operandi (digital polity). Findings reveal that the governance system leans towards progressive neoliberalism, combining forces of emancipation with forces of neoliberalism – especially regarding inclusion as one of the core dimensions of digital humanism.

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Digital Humanism, Progressive Neoliberalism and the European Digital Governance System for Vocational and Adult Education

Schmoelz

2023

Journal of Adult and Continuing Education

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“…However, on the material level of the body and bodily matter, their reproductive capacities, desires, and everyday practices of resistance seem to be harnessed for the social and biological reproduction of a patriarchal society under occupation. The Israeli settler colonial regime has a long history of exploiting uneven gender relations in Palestinian society by using military strategies intimately targeted at women’s bodies, mobilities, sexuality, and their role in society (Medien, 2021; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2009: 14–19). A series of t-shirts produced by Israeli battalion members reveal the normalization of such militarized sexual violence and their embodied effects.…”

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The Materiality of Power and Bodily Matter(ing): Embodied Resistance in Palestine

Rexer

2023

Body & Society

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To resist the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, Palestinian prisoners are smuggling sperm samples out of Israeli prisons to enable their wives to undergo fertility treatment. Bodies and bodily matter figure as central actors in this practice of resistance. In this article, I draw from fieldwork I conducted with Palestinian women and medical staff in the occupied West Bank to examine the tension between carcerality and matter(ing). I argue that bodies and bodily matter are constitutive of the relationship between oppression and resistance. I analyze how Israeli military authorities assign evidentiary status to Palestinian bodies and illustrate how Palestinian families challenge the Israeli carceral system through new modes of embodied resistance. This article demonstrates how intersecting forms of oppression shape and are being shaped by bodies and their materiality. It also suggests that theorizing the materiality of power from Palestine offers new ways of understanding the political work that bodies do.

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“…Furthermore, the more girls get older, the more they must confront traditional and familial habits that inhibit individual expression of personal and social competencies out of a protective and private domestic sphere (Cavazzoni et al, 2021, b). Therefore, boys have been described as more able to make decisions regarding their lives (Bargawi, Alami, & Ziada, 2020;Medien, 2021).…”

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Toward a Culture-Informed Conceptualization of Child Agency in a Context Characterized by Political and Military Violence. A Qualitative Exploration throughout Experts’ Voices

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Our present study sought to qualitative explore the perceptions of experts on the meaning of children agency in a context characterized by ongoing colonial violence and structural racism. Namely, we explored culture and context-specific features of agency, experts’ perceptions about a decolonized definition, and gaps with the mainstream definition of the construct in Western contexts. The study involved 14 participants (N = 8 women), aged between 32 and 70 years with a mean age of 45 years (SD = 9.72) who came from the Gaza Strip, the West Bank (Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Jenin) and territories currently part of the State of Israel (Jerusalem and Jaffa). They are all mental health professionals in universities, research centres, hospitals and social welfare services. Secondly, the analysis resulted in a map of five themes representing a culturally oriented Palestinian children’s agency model. A threatening context, alleviating factors, healthy agency, aggravating factors, harmful agency. The Palestinian conceptualization of child agency lies in the multifaceted nature of the construct itself re-declined in a context characterized by multiple levels of complexity- cultural, political, social, economic. Our findings might contribute to creating indicators of Palestinian children’s agentic behaviours and a better operationalization of the construct itself.

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Israeli settler colonialism, “humanitarian warfare,” and sexual violence in Palestine

Cited by 8 publications

References 55 publications

Digital Humanism, Progressive Neoliberalism and the European Digital Governance System for Vocational and Adult Education

Digital Humanism, Progressive Neoliberalism and the European Digital Governance System for Vocational and Adult Education

The Materiality of Power and Bodily Matter(ing): Embodied Resistance in Palestine

Toward a Culture-Informed Conceptualization of Child Agency in a Context Characterized by Political and Military Violence. A Qualitative Exploration throughout Experts’ Voices

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