Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity an

Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes

by Ashjan Ajour

2022 Winner of the Palestine Book AwardsRooted in feminist ethnography and decolonial feminist theory, this book explores the subjectivity of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, as shaped by resistance.

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2022 Winner of the Palestine Book AwardsRooted in feminist ethnography and decolonial feminist theory, this book explores the subjectivity of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, as shaped by resistance. Ashjan Ajour examines how these prisoners use their bodies in anti-colonial resistance; what determines this mode of radical struggle; the meanings they ascribe to their actions; and how they constitute their subjectivity while undergoing extreme bodily pain and starvation. These hunger strikes, which embody decolonisation and liberation politics, frame the post-Oslo period in the wake of the decline of the national struggle against settler-colonialism and the fragmentation of the Palestinian movement. Providing narrative and analytical insights into embodied resistance and tracing the formation of revolutionary subjectivity, the book sheds light on the participants' views of the hunger strike, as they move beyond customary understandings of the political into the realm of the 'spiritualisation' of struggle. Drawing on Foucault's conception of the technologies of the self, Fanon's writings on anti-colonial violence, and Badiou's militant philosophy, Ajour problematises these concepts from the vantage point of the Palestinian hunger strike.

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Rooted in feminist ethnography and decolonial feminist theory, this book explores the subjectivity of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, as shaped by resistance. Ashjan Ajour examines how these prisoners use their bodies in anti-colonial resistance; what determines this mode of radical struggle; the meanings they ascribe to their actions; and how they constitute their subjectivity while undergoing extreme bodily pain and starvation. These hunger strikes, which embody decolonisation and liberation politics, frame the post-Oslo period in the wake of the decline of the national struggle against settler-colonialism and the fragmentation of the Palestinian movement. Providing narrative and analytical insights into embodied resistance and tracing the formation of revolutionary subjectivity, the book sheds light on the participants' views of the hunger strike, as they move beyond customary understandings of the political into the realm of the 'spiritualisation' of struggle. Drawing on Foucault's conception of the technologies of the self, Fanon's writings on anti-colonial violence, and Badiou's militant philosophy, Ajour problematises these concepts from the vantage point of the Palestinian hunger strike.

Author Biography

Ashjan Ajour is an Academic Researcher in Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK and the incoming Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Centre for Middle East at Brown University, USA. Her research focuses on gender, feminist theories and movements, decolonization, political subjectivity, and incarceration.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction.- 2: Hunger Strike Resistance: A Brief History.- 3: Field Work and Reflection on Challenges: Feminist and Decolonial Approaches.- 4: Producing Knowledge and Understanding Subjectivity through Lived Experience.- 5: Theoretical Framework: Theories of Subjectivity and Subjectivation.- 6: Dispossession of Humanity: The Pre-hunger Strike Stage.- 7: Reclaiming Dispossessed Humanity: The Decision to Hunger Strike.- 8: The Embodiment of Humanity: Technologies of the Self and Resistance in the Hunger Strike.- 9: 'Strength', Conflict, and the Body in Pain.- 10:  Self-Determination and the Struggle with Death.- 11: Strength, Continuity and Steadfastness (Sumud).- 12: The Meaning of Victory: Sovereignty Over the Body in the Hunger Strikers' Philosophy of Freedom.- 13: Conceptualising a Limit-Experience: The Hunger Strike as a Near-Death.- 14: Conclusion.

Feature

Incorporates testimonials from ex-political prisoners Uses a feminist lens in its sociological and anthropological examination of hunger strikes Dismantles the false binary of non-violent vs. violent resistance

Details ISBN3030882012 Author Ashjan Ajour Short Title Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes Pages 342 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 3030882012 ISBN-13 9783030882013 Format Paperback Subtitle Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body DEWEY 303.61 Publication Date 2022-12-16 Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition 1st Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Illustrations 6 Illustrations, color; XVII, 342 p. 6 illus. in color. UK Release Date 2022-12-16 Edition Description 1st ed. 2021 Alternative 9783030881986 Audience Professional & Vocational

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• Condition: Brand new
• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9783030882013
• Author: Ashjan Ajour
• Book Title: Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes

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