Palestinian Feminist Praxis as Decolonial Refusal: Reclaiming Education, Memory, and Liberation

• In Event: Feminist Critique, Praxis and Relationality in Education

Abstract

This conceptual paper positions Palestinian feminist praxis as a decolonial framework that refuses colonial epistemologies and affirms life amid dispossession, violence, and genocide. Palestinian feminisms are theorized as transnational, embodied, and anti-imperial, rooted in resistance to both Zionist settler colonialism and white liberal feminist complicity. Centering refusal as an epistemic and material act, this paper argues that Palestinian feminist praxis offers a reparative, life-affirming vision of education grounded in community, memory, and liberation. In dialogue with Sriprakash (2023), Mignolo (2009), and Tuck & Yang (2012), this paper contributes to decolonial education by naming Palestinian feminist knowledge as vital to reimagining educational futures rooted in justice.

Author

• Amanda Najib, New York University