Borderlands of reproduction: bodies, borders, and assisted reproductive technologies in Israel/Palestine

Rexer, Gala

doi:10.1080/01419870.2021.1887502

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“…As a substance deriving yet being separate from the body, smuggled semen becomes biopolitically relevant precisely because it constitutes an active bounded (if temporal) entity. The sperm sample's movement reveals the porosity of the borders the Israeli state and military set up to slow down or impede Palestinians' (reproductive) movement (Rexer, 2021). In this process, the Palestinian prisoners' very material confinement is temporarily suspended through the sperm sample's animacy (Chen, 2012).…”

Section: Engendering Resistance: Bodies That Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These t-shirts depict pregnant Palestinian women with captions such as 'One Shot, Two Kills', 'Better Use Durex' or 'Bet You Got Raped' (Sharif, 2014: 1), illustrating how from the perspective of an Israeli soldier, the pregnant woman becomes a target of military violence first and foremost for her reproductive capacities. Israel's racialized politics of the womb (Ihmoud, 2021) reveals the ambiguous status of the female Palestinian body: it either needs to be saved from a patriarchal system or to be contained in its capacity to give birth (Rexer, 2021(Rexer, : 1555. If, as I have argued above, the Israeli prison engenders the male Palestinian body as a figure of resistance, then Israeli settler colonialism and its pornotroping (Ihmoud, 2014: 14;Spillers, 1987) of female Palestinian bodies situates them as a liminal figure to the realm of agentive politics.…”

Section: The Absence Of the Female Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Materiality of Power and Bodily Matter(ing): Embodied Resistance in Palestine

Rexer

2023

Body & Society

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To resist the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, Palestinian prisoners are smuggling sperm samples out of Israeli prisons to enable their wives to undergo fertility treatment. Bodies and bodily matter figure as central actors in this practice of resistance. In this article, I draw from fieldwork I conducted with Palestinian women and medical staff in the occupied West Bank to examine the tension between carcerality and matter(ing). I argue that bodies and bodily matter are constitutive of the relationship between oppression and resistance. I analyze how Israeli military authorities assign evidentiary status to Palestinian bodies and illustrate how Palestinian families challenge the Israeli carceral system through new modes of embodied resistance. This article demonstrates how intersecting forms of oppression shape and are being shaped by bodies and their materiality. It also suggests that theorizing the materiality of power from Palestine offers new ways of understanding the political work that bodies do.

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Section: Engendering Resistance: Bodies That Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Absence Of the Female Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Materiality of Power and Bodily Matter(ing): Embodied Resistance in Palestine

Rexer

2023

Body & Society

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“…148 Qualitative studies on the experience of Palestinian women in Jerusalem demonstrate that they are constantly aware that the Israeli hospitals are a part of the larger settler colonial constellation and are seen as a hostile entity: 'you feel that there is a gap, especially when you remember, for example a week ago, or a few weeks ago, they arrested my brother, they arrested my neighbor, or they bomb Gaza, yes … there's a struggle'. 149 The bureaucratic measures and checkpoints not only influence patient access to healthcare, but also that of medical staff working at hospitals. Almost two thirds of the staff in East Jerusalem's Palestinian hospitals hold West Bank IDs and are thus dependent on Israeli-issued permits to access their workplace; these permits are often denied or shortened from six-month to three-month periods and necessitate recurrent applications.…”

Section: Access To Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Statelessness: 'Unchilding' and the Health of Palestinian Children in Jerusalem

Tanous¹,

Wispelwey

Muhareb³

2022

SCR

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Understanding the key determinants of health of Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem is enhanced by analyzing Jerusalem as a settler colonial frontier. Structural racism, prolonged occupation, and settler colonialism shape the social and political determinants of health in Jerusalem, generating ill health and insecurity for Palestinian children who are rendered stateless in their own city. They are “unchilded” and, in fact, treated like enemies of the settler state. Colonial violence penetrates their family stability, homes, classrooms, and targets their bodies and health. In providing a thorough analysis of the lived experience of indigenous Palestinian children in Jerusalem, a broadened understanding of the effects of statelessness on their health can begin to take shape.

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“…A major concern regarding the refugee situation in the region has also been the biopolitics practiced by Israel in its border control and even insofar as the reproductive experience of Arab women. Rexer (2021) documents how many Arab women are forced into potentially dangerous conditions during childbirth. There is also a track record of discrimination for Arab women in Israeli fertility clinics, and that there is a "Utopian non-place" in which Arabs are simultaneously accepted yet discriminated against reproductively.…”

Section: Refugeesmentioning

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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Beyond Resolution: A Critical Assessment

Pratiwi

Syarafi²,

Nauvarian³

2022

JSP

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Of all the inter-state conflict currently happening in different regions of the world, the Israel- Palestine conflict has stood the test of time to become one of the longest and most impactful. Despite numerous attempts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, both parties have persisted, mainly showing a lack of compromise and commitment. This paper aims to analyze the underlying reason to the various unsuccessful attempts of Israel-Palestine conflict resolutions. This paper argues that there are four core issues that become object of negotiation in each attempt: borders, security, Jerusalem, and refugees. This paper assesses each party’s stances on these four issues and how they shape the negotiation process. This is done through an empirical generalization by inductive methodology, using library studies as a data collection method. This paper concludes that there should be an ideational change to compromise within the domestic politics of both parties to make future conflict resolution possible.

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Borderlands of reproduction: bodies, borders, and assisted reproductive technologies in Israel/Palestine

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

The Materiality of Power and Bodily Matter(ing): Embodied Resistance in Palestine

The Materiality of Power and Bodily Matter(ing): Embodied Resistance in Palestine

Beyond Statelessness: 'Unchilding' and the Health of Palestinian Children in Jerusalem

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Beyond Resolution: A Critical Assessment

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