(En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention

Kotef, Hagar; Amir, Merav

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“…This scholarship has broadened the notion of security by showing how state violence is structured and justified through the invocation of national security (Kotef and Amir, 2007;Kotef, 2010;Chakravarti, 2009). Feminist scholarship has also emphasised the need for a different notion of security that attempts to shift it from the realm of the state to that of the people, ranging from a safe environment and safe contraception to secure access to land (Enloe, 2007;Blanchard, 2003;Mohanty, 2011).…”

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The Masculinist Security State and Anti-terror Law Regimes in India

Roy

Singh

2015

Asian Studies Review

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The "war on terror" has seen an exponential rise in extraordinary laws enacted for addressing terrorism. These legal regimes for curtailing terrorism enhance the coercive powers of the state. The justification for enhanced powers is two-fold, based on the argument of overwhelming necessity not covered by law, and on the other hand, drawn from the "logic of masculinist protection", where a strong state is desired for the protection of citizens. An examination of specific cases under the (now repealed) Prevention of Terrorism Act and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in India shows that the masculinist security state functions through the enhanced legal powers of coercion, but also on the principle of production of gendered subordinate citizens. Even though all citizens are feminised in relationship with the masculinist state, the laws against terror, while figuring the author of "crimes of terror" in gender-neutral terms, produce gender-differentiated effects. This is brought out in the trial of women accused under anti-terror laws and also in the unfolding of the jurisprudence of suspicion, which works on the principle of association, bringing the family, and often the entire community, within the purview of the security apparatus of the state.The contemporary security state is constituted by an exponential expansion of state power and its concentration in the executive branch of the government, and the specific state practices that have emerged in the context of the global war on terror. It refers in particular to security regimes, which are presented by governments as imperative for

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The Masculinist Security State and Anti-terror Law Regimes in India

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2015

Asian Studies Review

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“…Prior research into the organization includes Deutsch‐Nadir (); Keshet (); Naaman (); Halperin (); Kotef and Amir (); Mansbach (); Wigoder (); Ulman (); Braverman (); Desivilya and Yassour‐Borochowitz (); Hallward (); Weber (); Ginsburg (); Riordon (); Wiesslitz and Ashuri (); Ashuri (); Hatuka (); Kutz‐Flamenbaum (). While Ulman and Wiesslitz and Ashuri do examine the reporting praxis of CPW, they do so in the context of giving a testimony (Ulman ) or as a type of online journalism (Wiesslitz and Ashuri ; Ashuri ).…”

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“…This study is a continuation of a broader research project, part of which was conducted with my colleague, Dr. Hagar Kotef, concerning CPW and the checkpoints (Kotef and Amir , ; Amir , ). While the analysis provided here is structured on a textual examination of the reports produced by the organization, it is also based on my broader acquaintance with the organization and its activities, drawn from 5 years of active membership, numerous informal conversations, and semi‐structured interviews with other activists, and following and participating in years of internal debates.…”

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Women Speaking of National Security: The Case of Checkpoint Watch

Amir

2014

Int Polit Sociol

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The production of reports and the distribution of information have become integral to the operation of many non‐governmental organizations. In this regard, the fact that the all‐women organization of Checkpoint Watch publishes reports about the Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank seems to comply with current trends. However, the reports—most of which are short repetitive descriptions of the banality and everydayness of the military checkpoints, counting the number of people and cars waiting, commenting on the manner in which the checks are performed and meticulously documenting what mostly amounts to minor incidents of humiliation and distress—do not seem to abide by any convention of reporting. This work analyzes the reporting praxis of the organization and claims that it should be understood as a form of activism in and of itself. Tracking the ways in which the reports address the Israeli public through the concept of parrhesia, the work suggests that this form of reporting enables the women activists to use their gendered marginality to make their way into the highly masculinized and militarized Israeli security discourse.

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“…2 2 A critical analysis of Machsom Watch and the presence of women at the checkpoints can be found in Kotef and Amir 2007. See also Naaman 2006. …”

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Unruly Daughters to Mother Nation: Palestinian and Israeli First-person Films

Naaman¹

2008

Hypatia

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This artick examines the Zsraeli documentary My Land Zion and the Palestinian documentary Paradise Lost. Both films are critical autobiogruphical texts and in both, the woman filmmaker negotiates her emotional and ideological ties with her culture, history, and nation. Naaman proposes that by using the autobiographical genre and by engaging emotionally as well as rationally, the women filmmakers discussed offer a particular gendered position rebelliously outside nationalism and the place of women within it.My mother got a desperate phone call from Abed. His four-year-old son was alone in an East Jerusalem hospital-alone because neither Abed nor his wife had permits to enter Jerusalem. The poor boy was awaiting an emergency operation without his parents. The thought hammered, ricocheting through my brain. I held tight to my sixteenth-month-old baby and cried. As my mother relayed the content of the call and the hours that followed, I could not imagine any parent tom apart from his or her child at a time of need. This cognitive process quickly led to a familiar anger at the sins of the occupation and its violent machinations against civilians.

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(En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention

Cited by 76 publications

References 9 publications

The Masculinist Security State and Anti-terror Law Regimes in India

The Masculinist Security State and Anti-terror Law Regimes in India

Women Speaking of National Security: The Case of Checkpoint Watch

Unruly Daughters to Mother Nation: Palestinian and Israeli First-person Films

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