Sociology of and for Palestine

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

What would it mean for sociologists to center Palestine and Palestinian scholarship? During the past two years we have witnessed the acceleration of death worlds created by Israel and the United States in Palestine. The ongoing genocide of Palestinian families, cultures, histories, memories, intellectual traditions, scholarship and existence lays bare the stark hypocrisy and power hunger of Western empires. Rejecting hegemonic narratives that demonize Palestinians or take a "both sides" stance, this session asks: what does a sociology of and for Palestine offer? We invite submissions that center any and all aspects of Palestinian life, broadly speaking, and are particularly interested in papers written by, and in collaboration with, Palestinian scholars and those that draw and build upon Palestinian epistemologies, settler colonial frameworks, decolonial theories, and theories from the global south.

Sub Unit

• Race, Gender, and Class Section / Sociology of and for Palestine

Presider

• Viletcia Barghouthi, Michigan State University

Individual Presentations

• Intersectional Identities and Protest Participation - Arman Azedi, American University

• Weaponizing Gender in Carceral Regimes: Sexual Threat and the Governance of Fear Among Palestinian Women - Dalal B. Salem, Ibn Haldun University

Session Organizers

• Victoria Reyes, University of California-Riverside

• Assata Zerai, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque