{"title":"Women’s Popular Resistance","authors":"Sophie Richter-Devroe","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252041860.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041860.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 discusses women’s popular resistance activism. Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with Palestinian female protestors, it traces the forms, meanings, and impact of women’s involvement in demonstrations against the illegal Israeli separation wall. Such embodied protest actions hold particular gender-specific meanings: by dramatically putting their bodies on the line, women resist the Israeli occupation, but they also challenge essentialist discourses that reduce women to biological and cultural reproducers of the nation and counter the international agenda’s disciplining project of confining Palestinian women’s political spaces to that of joint Palestinian-Israeli peace initiatives. By doing politics differently, Palestinian female resistance activists thus challenge classic liberal notions of the political and enact what Nancy Fraser in her critique of Habermas termed “subaltern counterpublics.”","PeriodicalId":103213,"journal":{"name":"Women's Political Activism in Palestine","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114545693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s Peacebuilding","authors":"Sophie Richter-Devroe","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252041860.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252041860.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 provides an ethnography and analysis of women’s peacebuilding initiatives in Palestine, tracking the ways in which the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the liberal Women, Peace and Security agenda was interpreted and implemented there. After the Oslo Accords, foreign donors but also some scholarly analysts have displayed a peculiar fascination with peacebuilding initiatives between Palestinian and Israelis. Such joint peace initiatives often are legitimized in the international community with reference to the UNSCR 1325, but they have become few and lack social support and impact in Palestine. Countering liberal approaches to peace, politics, and the public sphere, including Habermas’s notion of ideal speech, this chapter argues that joint Palestinian and Israeli women’s peacebuilding in fact constitutes an attempt to discipline rather than to strengthen women’s political activism in Palestine.","PeriodicalId":103213,"journal":{"name":"Women's Political Activism in Palestine","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122988470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s Everyday Resistance and the Infrapolitics of Ṣumūd","authors":"Sophie Richter-Devroe","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252041860.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252041860.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 deals with women’s less spectacular strategies of quotidian resistance and survival—ṣumūd, as they are often referred to in Palestine. Classic political analysis might consider the silent, ordinary acts that women practice on a daily basis uninteresting, or irrelevant for political change. But the fact that women’s everyday resistance is largely covert does not render it apolitical or without broader significance. The Israeli occupation and settler-colonial policies reach into and dominate the very fine grain of Palestinian everyday life; the everyday and the ordinary today has become a major site where politics is enacted. This chapter argues that women with their daily mundane struggles resist not only the physical occupation of their land and people, but they also the occupation of their mind.","PeriodicalId":103213,"journal":{"name":"Women's Political Activism in Palestine","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133053356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}