Palestinian refugee women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonizing the geopolitics of displacement
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- Main Building, SOAS
- Room
- RG01
- Event type
- Lecture
About this event
Based on four years of field research in Palestinian camps in Jordan - including unique interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - Palestinian refugee women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonizing the geopolitics of displacement reveals the extraordinary layers of discrimination suffered by Palestinian women.
The women's experiences show them caught between settler colonialism, militarism, nationalism, refugees' global governance and gender regimes that subjected them to multiple forms of structural gender-based violence. The book argues for a feminist analysis of settler colonialism's epistemic violence of anti-Palestinianism to expose the history and geopolitics of intersecting oppressive systems that work through and upon gendered bodies of Palestinian refugee women in humanitarian settings.
About the speaker
Afaf Jabiri is a Palestinian feminist scholar, currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of East London. She leads Refugee Studies and co-directs the Center for Social Justice and Change. Her research focuses on feminist theory, intersectionality, settler colonialism, and the lived politics in women’s everyday practices, particularly in Palestinian refugee camps, Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen. Among her publications is the book Gendered Politics of Law in Jordan: Guardianship over Women.
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Registration
This event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please note that seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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