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Home invasion as incursion into body and homeland: feminism and the politics of life and death in Palestine.
Home invasion as incursion into body and homeland: feminism and the politics of life and death in Palestine.
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International Feminist Journal of Politics . Sep2024, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p744-763. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In addition to the genocidal actions taking place in Gaza, the Israeli military also conducts large-scale assaults in the West Bank that destroy individuals' homes and communities, and invades Palestinian homes one home and garden at a time. While there are 250 of these invasions per month, they receive little scrutiny. Most of these invasions occur across the 19 refugee camps in the occupied Palestinian territories, where home is viewed as a gendered and temporal space: transient, penetrable, and violable. To analyze home invasion through a feminist lens, interviews were conducted with ten women-identifying refugees who described it as one of many forms of collective punishment that Palestinians experience that determines ability or debility as well as who may live and who may/must die. Interview participants saw home invasion as a type of domestic, gendered, and sexual violence that affects neighbors, kin, and communities and is mitigated through the collective support of women. Work on this article started well before the devastating and horrific events that unfolded after October 7, 2023. The article's scrutiny of the militarized infrastructure across the West Bank brings important context to the state violence in Gaza, and lays bare the vulnerabilities of the West Bank. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14616742
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Feminist Journal of Politics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179482920
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2387107