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Palestinian Feminist Critique and the Physics of Power: Feminists Between Thought and Practice
Get PDFGrounded in my own position as a Palestinian feminist born and raised in Haifa, this paper delves into the nature of feminism for Palestinian women in the Jewish settler colonial state by asking three main questions: How does the complex socio-political reality of settler colonialism reflect itself in the lives and status of Palestinian women living in Israel? What kind of critical feminist theorizing is needed from Palestinian feminists in Israel? How can we analyze and confront the racism of the historical silence of the majority of Israeli feminists towards the historical injustice and current violence faced by Palestinian feminists? The paper underlines the importance of widening the critical feminist lens to account for the physics of power and calls for (a) the deconstruction of feminisms that have refused to regard the Nakba as a focal analytical and actual source of feminist theorization and (b) defiance in the face of global, regional, and local amnesia towards the Palestinian right to life in the face of Israel’s necropolitical regime of control
Feminism Then and Now
Get PDFThis is the text of Camille Kumar's contribution to a panel discussion on 'Feminism Then and Now' held at the LSE Gender Institute on 21 January 2014, as part of a series of events to welcome the Women's Library to LSE. Sarah Keenan attended the event and provides an introduction
It Is Our Belief That Palestine is a Feminist Issue...
Get PDFTo date, apparently, no major Western women’s or feminist organization has declared its solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. This introduction argues that the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation and for rights, justice and equality is a fundamentally feminist issue. It is so both on the grounds of the traditions of international solidarity that have been central to feminisms that are also anti-racist and anti-imperialist and because Israel’s occupation and legalized system of discrimination targets the reproduction of Palestinian life in the fullest sense, not only as biological life but also in the larger sense of the social and cultural. The paper concludes by arguing that the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is a crucial intervention which, in consistency with feminist theory and practice, feminists internationally should endorse and act upon
Introduction: Gendering Labour Law
Get PDFThis special section of feminists@law is the outcome of a workshop on 'Gendering Labour Law' held at Kent Law School on 20-21 June 2013. Its aspiration is to help to revitalise labout law by infusing it with a robust feminist engagement with core concepts such as work, care, gender and social reproduction
Unpaid Care, Paid Work and Austerity: A Research Note
Get PDFThe need to pursue austerity measures has been used by the UK's Coalition Government as justification for labour market deregulation alongside reductions in welfare and cuts to public services. Such reforms have resulted in reduced protection for those (women) engaged in low paid, precarious work and the loss of public sector jobs and also run the risk of upsetting the finely-tuned arrangements on which those who provide unpaid care alongside paid work depend. This research note considers the impact of recent reforms on the reconciliation of paid work and unpaid care and challenges the underlying austerity rationale
Some Reflections on BDS and Feminist Political Solidarity
Get PDFThe main theme that I address in this paper is the boycott as a form of political solidarity. Recalling one of the primary objectives of Black and Third World feminist activists and scholars, I explore how BDS is one of the primary ways of building solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation. The logic of BDS is that of a unified, anti-racist and anti-colonial politics, which counters the logic of the Oslo Accords, one of fragmentation along multiple axes
Introduction
No full textThis section presents a discussion of Sarah Keenan’s book Subversive Property: Law and the Production of Spaces of Belonging (Routledge 2014). The book was launched at Birkbeck, University of London, on 12 September 2014. The three papers that follow are versions of speeches given at the launch by Davina Cooper (Professor of Law and Political Theory, University of Kent), Emma Patchett (Marie Curie Fellow, University of Münster) and Nadine El-Enany (Lecturer, Birkbeck School of Law), together with a response by Sarah Keenan (Lecturer, SOAS). The launch concluded with a musical presentation by Len Lukowski of the band FAGGOT, a link to which is also included here
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