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Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes - Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes - Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Rooted 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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