Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes
Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body
(Sprache: Englisch)
2022 Winner of the Palestine Book Awards
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2022 Winner of the Palestine Book AwardsRooted in feminist ethnography and decolonial feminist theory, this book explores the subjectivity of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, as shaped by resistance. Ashjan Ajour examines how these prisoners use their bodies in anti-colonial resistance; what determines this mode of radical struggle; the meanings they ascribe to their actions; and how they constitute their subjectivity while undergoing extreme bodily pain and starvation. These hunger strikes, which embody decolonisation and liberation politics, frame the post-Oslo period in the wake of the decline of the national struggle against settler-colonialism and the fragmentation of the Palestinian movement. Providing narrative and analytical insights into embodied resistance and tracing the formation of revolutionary subjectivity, the book sheds light on the participants' views of the hunger strike, as they move beyond customary understandings of the political into the realm of the 'spiritualisation' of struggle. Drawing on Foucault's conception of the technologies of the self, Fanon's writings on anti-colonial violence, and Badiou's militant philosophy, Ajour problematises these concepts from the vantage point of the Palestinian hunger strike.
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1: Introduction.- 2: Hunger Strike Resistance: A Brief History.- 3: Field Work and Reflection on Challenges: Feminist and Decolonial Approaches.- 4: Producing Knowledge and Understanding Subjectivity through Lived Experience.- 5: Theoretical Framework: Theories of Subjectivity and Subjectivation.- 6: Dispossession of Humanity: The Pre-hunger Strike Stage.- 7: Reclaiming Dispossessed Humanity: The Decision to Hunger Strike.- 8: The Embodiment of Humanity: Technologies of the Self and Resistance in the Hunger Strike.- 9: 'Strength', Conflict, and the Body in Pain.- 10: Self-Determination and the Struggle with Death.- 11: Strength, Continuity and Steadfastness (Sumud).- 12: The Meaning of Victory: Sovereignty Over the Body in the Hunger Strikers' Philosophy of Freedom.- 13: Conceptualising a Limit-Experience: The Hunger Strike as a Near-Death.- 14: Conclusion.
Autoren-Porträt von Ashjan Ajour
Ashjan Ajour is an Academic Researcher in Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK and the incoming Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Centre for Middle East at Brown University, USA. Her research focuses on gender, feminist theories and movements, decolonization, political subjectivity, and incarceration.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ashjan Ajour
- 2021, 1st ed. 2021, XVII, 342 Seiten, 342 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3030881989
- ISBN-13: 9783030881986
Sprache:
Englisch
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