ISBN:
9781138802407
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (190 p)
Series Statement:
War, Politics and Experience
Parallel Title:
Print version Bodies, Power and Resistance in the Middle East : Experiences of Subjectification in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
DDC:
305.48/892740956953
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The book examines how exercises of power and processes of security exercised in the Occupied Palestinian Territories have formed Palestinian women as subjects. To understand how women experience occupation, this book examines the various ways in which the occupation is directed at making Palestinian women into subjects of power. The work argues that the exercises of power are focused on controlling and disciplining women's bodies. The objectives are to expose how the exclusions of women's daily-lived experiences of conflict in the occupied Palestinian territories obscures how power operates, t
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; PART I Thinking about subjectification and resistance; Introduction: Checkpoint 300; 1 Women, (in)security and violence; 2 Theorising power and resistance; 3 Subject and dispositif in the occupied Palestinian territories; PART II Experiences of subjectification and resistance: power and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territories; 4 Centralising lived experience in the field; 5 Managing populations and resisting management; 6 Punishing populations and resisting punishment
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Beyond management and punishment: killing bodies, killing geographiesConclusion: back to Checkpoint 300; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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