Displacing Palestine: Palestinian Householding in an Era of Asymmetrical War

Johnson, Penny

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“…In ongoing occupations in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine, military incursions routinely involve everyday civilian environments, including workplaces, schools, and sites of worship (Coward, 2004; Graham, 2004; Gregory, 2008). A central target of contemporary political violence is the family home, which is regularly subject to surveillance, invasions, and repeated actual or threatened demolitions (Brickell, 2012; Johnson, 2010; Falah, 2004; Fluri, 2011). …”

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“…A small body of literature, mainly from data collected among women in Palestine, points to the mental health implications of the home invasions and demolitions that, in part, characterize political violence in this region (Johnson, 2010; Harker, 2009; Giacaman, Shannon, et al, 2007; Qouta, Punamäki & Sarraj, 1998; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2006, 2009). Findings from these studies are consistent with scholarship on the negative impacts on well-being of threats to home related to mass disasters (Carroll, Morbey, Balogh, & Araoz, 2009; Cox & Perry, 2011; Erikson, 1976; Norris et al, 2002; Sims et al, 2009; Tapsell & Tunstall, 2008), urban renewal (Fried, 1963; Fullilove, 1996, 2004), and chronic environmental degradation (Speldenwinde, Cook, Davies & Weinstein, 2009).…”

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Dwelling within political violence: Palestinian women’s narratives of home, mental health, and resilience

Sousa

Kemp

El-Zuhairi³

2014

Health & Place

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Political violence is increasingly played out within everyday civilian environments, particularly family homes. Yet, within the literature on political violence and mental health, the role of threats to home remains under-explored. Using focus group data from 32 Palestinian women, this paper explores the implications of violations to the home within political violence. Threats to the privacy, control, and constancy of the family home – key dimensions of ontological security (Giddens, 1990) – emerged as central themes in women's narratives. Surveillance, home invasions, and actual or threatened destruction of women's home environments provoked fear, anxiety, grief, humiliation, and helplessness, particularly as women struggled to protect their children. Women also described how they mobilized the home for economic, familial and cultural survival. Study findings illuminate the impact of threats to intimate environments on well-being of women and their families living with chronic political violence, and underscore the importance of attention to violations of place and home in research on civilian experiences of and responses to political violence.

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Dwelling within political violence: Palestinian women’s narratives of home, mental health, and resilience

Sousa

Kemp

El-Zuhairi³

2014

Health & Place

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“…Criminalities and attacks against Gazan Palestinians, portrayed in the destruction of space, land, and the dispossession of life and livelihood were acknowledged by many internationally renowned entities, including the UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Save the Children and others; some international actors criticized and even condemned Israeli criminalities against Gaza (e.g., Goldstone Report UN 2009; UN 2014). Yet Israeli state criminalities against Gazans and Gaza are inflected by a sacralized, state-organized and racialized economy of dispossession (Shalhoub-Kevorkian 2015a; Ward 2014), and discursive histories that supersede the narrative of the colonized (Johnson 2010).…”

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Theologizing State Crime

Shalhoub-Kevorkian

David

Ihmoud³

2016

State Crime Journal

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This article examines a sacralized political economy of state crime, centring Israeli assaults on the occupied Gaza Strip over the last ten years, with a particular focus on the violent attack perpetrated in 2014. Taking the 2006 election of Hamas as a point of departure, the article analyses various manifestations of violence inscribed on the people of Gaza, including killing, injuring, starving, collective punishment, military assaults and other forms of cruelty. Drawing on a settler colonial framework, the article investigates Israel's violence as sacralized state criminality embedded in a local and global political economy of racism and impunity. It argues that Israeli crimes against Gazan Palestinians must be analysed as political technologies of counterinsurgent governmentality embedded in a structure of settler colonial dispossession initiated during the 1948 Nakba.

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“…Work on suffering and resilience in Palestine points to how women’s persistence within their everyday routines represents, as Allen (2008) terms it, an agentic “getting by” (see also Johnson, 2010; Richter-Devroe, 2011; Ryan, 2015). As we described above, the specific processes of resilience within the conflict in Palestine are very much in line with the ways that resilience is now widely accepted as a dynamic, cultural-, and context-specific process that must be explored in its complexity rather than an outcome that can be simply measured (Masten & Obradovic, 2008; Ungar, 2011b).…”

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Risk and Protective Factors Among Palestinian Women Living in a Context of Prolonged Armed Conflict and Political Oppression

Veronese

Cavazzoni

Russo

et al. 2019

J Interpers Violence

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Research has widely documented the effects of war and political violence on the functioning and well-being of adults and children. Yet, within this literature, women’s agency in the face of war-related adversity and political violence remains underexplored. The present study was conducted in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the most recent war on Gaza in 2014, with the aim of investigating the consequences of war and political violence for women’s mental health and psychological functioning. Based on interviews with 21 Palestinian women exposed to extreme war-related traumatic events, the article offers an analysis of the risk and protective factors affecting their well-being and enhancing (or diminishing) their agency. Human Security, Family Ties, Psychosocial Resources, Individual Resources, and Motherhood emerged from the women’s narratives as key factors contributing to the maintenance of positive psychological functioning and the ability to adjust to traumatic war events in the aftermath of acute armed conflict. These exploratory findings suggest that Palestinian women display a high level of functioning and resources for adjustment that is preserved after periods of devastating armed conflict. The study draws attention to a set of protective factors for the well-being of women and their families when living with chronic political violence.

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Displacing Palestine: Palestinian Householding in an Era of Asymmetrical War

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Dwelling within political violence: Palestinian women’s narratives of home, mental health, and resilience

Dwelling within political violence: Palestinian women’s narratives of home, mental health, and resilience

Theologizing State Crime

Risk and Protective Factors Among Palestinian Women Living in a Context of Prolonged Armed Conflict and Political Oppression

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