Palestine Link College Tour 2014

Invitation

Palestine Link College Tour 2014

“Palestinian Women and Israel's Settler Colonialism: The case of Occupied East Jerusalem”

dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Settler colonialism and its accompanying securitization veils exploitative relations in colonies, engages in overt use of force, and expedites hegemonic accumulation by dispossession. Examining the case of women in Occupied East Jerusalem dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian will borrow meanings from Palestinian women's voices and life experiences to reveal Israel's modes of “accumulation by dispossession”. In her presentations she argues that such accumulation promotes securitized forms of social, spatial, economic and political control and results in trapping women's bodies and lives, leading to severe human suffering. The political, economic and spatial logic behind accumulation by dispossession is a politically driven process that occurs simultaneously with the production of fear of the other. This logic works in a variety of ways, from subtle, visible, invisible and invisibilized modes, to apparent and hypervisible ones. It impacts and re-shapes different layers of society, including the legal, historical, geo-political and psychosocial. By identifying the various characteristics of accumulation, when juxtaposed with the colonial industry of fear, dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian shows how colonial accumulation by dispossession conceals exploitation against women and opens up new spaces for violence, oppressions, and dislocation.

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a longtime anti-violence, native Palestinian feminist activist and scholar. She is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian is also the director of the Gender Studies Program at Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa. Her research focuses on femicide and other forms of gendered violence, crimes of abuse of power in settler colonial contexts, surveillance, securitization, and trauma in militarized and colonized zones. Her most recent book is entitled: “Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study” published by Cambridge University Press, 2010. Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian plays a prominent role in the local Palestinian community. As a resident of the old city of Jerusalem, she engages in direct actions and critical dialogue to end the inscription of power over Palestinian children’s lives, spaces of death, and women’s birthing bodies and lives.

Programme:

Wednesday 7 May

Venue:                Amsterdam University College (AUC)

Address:              Science Park 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam

Starts 6.30 pm

Thursday 8 May

Venue:                                 International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Address:              Kortenaerkade 12, 2518 AX The Hague

Starts: 6:00 pm

Friday 9 May

Venue:                 Faculty of Social Sciences Leiden University, room 5A41

Address:              Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden

Starts:  3:00 pm