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Women throughout the world have always played their part in
struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of
oppression. However, there are few books on Arab political
prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained
in their thousands for their political activism and resistance.
Nahla Abdo's Captive Revolution seeks to break the silence on
Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital
contribution to research on women, revolutions, national liberation
and anti-colonial resistance. Based on stories of the women
themselves, as well as her own experiences as a former political
prisoner, Abdo draws on a wealth of oral history and primary
research in order to analyse their anti-colonial struggle, their
agency and their appalling treatment as political detainees. Making
crucial comparisons with the experiences of female political
detainees in other conflicts, and emphasising the vital role
Palestinian political culture and memorialisation of the 'Nakba'
have had on their resilience and resistance, Captive Revolution is
a rich and revealing addition to our knowledge of this
little-studied phenomenon.
As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this
remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian
scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women,
offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its
impact on daily life, especially as it affects women's experiences
that differ significantly from those of men. The (auto)biographical
narratives in this volume focus on some of the most disturbing
effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a sense of dislocation
that goes well beyond the geographical meaning of the word; it
involves social, cultural, national and gender dislocation,
including alienation from one's own home, family, community, and
society. The accounts become even more poignant if seen against the
backdrop of the roots of the conflict, the real or imaginary
construct of a state to save and shelter particularly European Jews
from the horrors of Nazism in parallel to the other side of the
coin: Israel as a settler-colonial state responsible for the
displacement of the Palestinian nation.
As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating this
remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian
scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women,
offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its
impact on daily life, especially as it affects women's experiences
that differ significantly from those of men. The (auto)biographical
narratives in this volume focus on some of the most disturbing
effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a sense of dislocation
that goes well beyond the geographical meaning of the word; it
involves social, cultural, national and gender dislocation,
including alienation from one's own home, family, community, and
society. The accounts become even more poignant if seen against the
backdrop of the roots of the conflict, the real or imaginary
construct of a state to save and shelter particularly European Jews
from the horrors of Nazism in parallel to the other side of the
coin: Israel as a settler-colonial state responsible for the
displacement of the Palestinian nation. Nahla Abdo is Professor of
Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa. She has published
extensively on women and the state in the Middle East with special
focus on Palestinian women. She contributed to the establishment of
the Women's Studies Institute at Birzeit University and has found
the Gender Research Unit at the Women's Empowerment Project/Gaza
Community Mental Health Program in Gaza. Ronit Lentin was born in
Haifa prior to the establishment of the State of Israel and has
lived in Ireland since 1969. She is a well known writer of fiction
and non-fiction books and is course co-ordinator of the MPhil in
Ethnic Studies at the Department of Sociology, Trinity College
Dublin. She has published extensively on the genedered link between
Israel and the Shoah, feminist research methodologies, Israeli and
Palestinian women's peace activism, gender and racism in Ireland.
"Women in Israel" provides a fresh, gendered analysis of
citizenship in Israel. Working from a framework of Israel as a
settler-colonial regime, this important, insightful book presents
historical and contemporary comparative approaches to the lives and
experiences of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and Palestinian Arab women
citizens. Nahla Abdo shows that no solution to the problems of the
region can be found without changing existing racial and gender
boundaries to citizenship.
In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when
over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in
the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the
bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become
the pivotal event both in the shaping of Palestinian identity and
in galvanising the resistance to occupation. Unearthing an
unparalleled body of rich oral testimony, An Oral History of the
Palestinian Nakba tells the story of this epochal event through the
voices of the Palestinians who lived it, uncovering remarkable new
insights both into Palestinian experiences of the Nakba and into
the wider dynamics of the ongoing conflict. Drawing together
Palestinian accounts from 1948 with those of the present day, the
book confronts the idea of the Nakba as an event consigned to the
past, instead revealing it to be an ongoing process aimed at the
erasure of Palestinian memory and history. In the process, each
unique and wide-ranging contribution leads the way for new
directions in Palestinian scholarship.
In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when
over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in
the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the
bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become
the pivotal event both in the shaping of Palestinian identity and
in galvanising the resistance to occupation. Unearthing an
unparalleled body of rich oral testimony, An Oral History of the
Palestinian Nakba tells the story of this epochal event through the
voices of the Palestinians who lived it, uncovering remarkable new
insights both into Palestinian experiences of the Nakba and into
the wider dynamics of the ongoing conflict. Drawing together
Palestinian accounts from 1948 with those of the present day, the
book confronts the idea of the Nakba as an event consigned to the
past, instead revealing it to be an ongoing process aimed at the
erasure of Palestinian memory and history. In the process, each
unique and wide-ranging contribution leads the way for new
directions in Palestinian scholarship.
Women throughout the world have always played their part in
struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of
oppression. However, there are few books on Arab political
prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained
in their thousands for their political activism and resistance.
Nahla Abdo's Captive Revolution seeks to break the silence on
Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital
contribution to research on women, revolutions, national liberation
and anti-colonial resistance. Based on stories of the women
themselves, as well as her own experiences as a former political
prisoner, Abdo draws on a wealth of oral history and primary
research in order to analyse their anti-colonial struggle, their
agency and their appalling treatment as political detainees. Making
crucial comparisons with the experiences of female political
detainees in other conflicts, and emphasising the vital role
Palestinian political culture and memorialisation of the 'Nakba'
have had on their resilience and resistance, Captive Revolution is
a rich and revealing addition to our knowledge of this
little-studied phenomenon.
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