Necropolitical Debris: The Dichotomy of Life and Death

Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, Nadera

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Abu-Lughod, L. and Sa'di, A.H. ( 2007) “Introduction: The Claims of Memory”, in L. Abu-Lughod and A.H. Sa'di, eds, Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory . New York: Columbia University Press.
Ali, T. M. ( 2000) “Warning”, in Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story . Jerusalem: Ibis Editions.
Cohen, S. ( 2001) States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering . Cambridge: Polity.
Esmeir, S. ( 2003) “1948 Law, History, Memory”, Social Text 21( 2): 25– 48.
Forman, G. and Kedar, A. ( 2004) “From Arab Land to ‘Israel Lands’: The Legal Dispossession of the Palestinians Displaced by Israel in the Wake of 1948”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22( 6): 809– 830.
Habiby, E. ( 2001) The Secret Life of Saeeed: The Pessoptimist . Northampton: Interlink Publishing Group.
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Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. ( 2009) “The Political Economy of Children's Trauma: A Case Study of House Demolitions in Palestine”, Feminism and Psychology 19( 3): 335– 342.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. ( 2010) “Palestinian Women and the Politics of Invisibility: Towards a Feminist Methodology”, Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 3( 1): 1– 21.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. ( 2012) Birthing in Occupied East Jerusalem: Palestinian Women's Experiences of Pregnancy and Delivery . Jerusalem: YWCA.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. and Zu'bi, H. ( 2013) “Yaffa: Exile in the Homeland and Growth”, Journal of Palestine Studies 93: 50– 65 (Arabic).
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Wolfe, P. ( 2012) “Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism's Conquest of Economics”, Settler Colonial Studies 2( 1): 133– 171.
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[1] Abu-Lughod, L. ( 2007) “Return to Half-Ruins: Memory, Postmemory, and Living History in Palestine”, in L. Abu-Lughod and A.H. Sa'di, eds, Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory . New York: Columbia University Press.

[2] Abu-Lughod, L. and Sa'di, A.H. ( 2007) “Introduction: The Claims of Memory”, in L. Abu-Lughod and A.H. Sa'di, eds, Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory . New York: Columbia University Press.

[3] Ali, T. M. ( 2000) “Warning”, in Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story . Jerusalem: Ibis Editions.

[4] Cohen, S. ( 2001) States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering . Cambridge: Polity.

[5] Esmeir, S. ( 2003) “1948 Law, History, Memory”, Social Text 21( 2): 25– 48.

[6] Forman, G. and Kedar, A. ( 2004) “From Arab Land to ‘Israel Lands’: The Legal Dispossession of the Palestinians Displaced by Israel in the Wake of 1948”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22( 6): 809– 830.

[7] Habiby, E. ( 2001) The Secret Life of Saeeed: The Pessoptimist . Northampton: Interlink Publishing Group.

[8] Haggerty, K. and Ericson, R., (eds) ( 2007) The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

[9] Hamber, B. ( 1995) “Do Sleeping Dogs Lie? The Psychological Implications of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa”, Seminar presented at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, July 26.

[10] Hayner, P.B. ( 2001) Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity . New York: Routledge.

[11] Herman, J.L. ( 1992) Trauma and Recovery . New York: Basic Books.

[12] Jelin, E. ( 1994). “The Politics of Memory: The Human Rights Movement and Construction of Democracy in Argentina”, Latin American Perspectives, Issue 18 21( 2): 38– 58.

[13] Khalidi, W. ( 1992) All That Remains . Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies.

[14] Kremnitzer, M. and Fuchs, A. ( 2011). “Israeli Democracy Is in Danger”, Ynet (Hebrew). Available online at http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4094670,00.html (accessed 11 March 2015).

[15] Lyon, D. ( 2011) “Identification, Colonialism and Control: Surveillant Sorting in Israel/Palestine”, in E. Zureik, D. Lyon, and Y. Abu-Laban (eds), Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine . New York: Routledge.

[16] Masalha, N. ( 2012) The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory . New York: Zed Books.

[17] Masalha, N. ( 1992) Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948 . Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies.

[18] Massad, J. ( 2008) “Resisting the Nakba”, Electronic Intifada . Available online at http://electronicinti-fada.net/content/resisting-nakba/7518 (accessed 13 February 2015).

[19] McIntyre, J. ( 2009) “Evicted Jerusalem Family Refuses to Give Up”, Electronic Intifada . Available online at http://electronicintifada.net/content/evicted-jerusalem-family-refuses-give/8388 (accessed 13 February 2015).

[20] Minister of Education ( 2009) Nakba? Not in Our School! Nana News Update (Hebrew). Available online at http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=651906 (accessed 13 February 2015).

[21] Naamnih, H. ( 2013) “The Liberal Palestinian in Front of the Israeli Judiciary”, 17 May (Arabic). Available online at http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11769/مامأ-ةينيطسلفلا-ةيلاربيللا يليئارسإلا-ءاضقلا (accessed 13 February 2015).

[22] Olesker, R. ( 2013) “Law-Making and the Securitization of the Jewish Identity in Israel”, Ethnopolitics , pp. 1– 17.

[23] Pappe, I. ( 2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine . Oxford: Oneworld.

[24] Rouhana, N.N. ( 1997) Identities in Conflict: Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State . New Haven: Yale University Press.

[25] Rouhana, N.N. ( 2008) “The Haifa Declaration and the Palestinians in Israel: From the Political Margins to the Moral Center”, in K. Nakhleh, ed, The Future of the Palestinian Minority in Israel . Ramallah: Madar -The Palestinian Center for Israel Research (Arabic).

[26] Sabbagh-Khoury, A. ( 2011) “The Internally Displaced Palestinians in Israel”, N.N. Rouhana and A. Sabbagh-Khoury, eds, The Palestinians in Israel: Readings in History, Politics and Society . Haifa, Israel: Mada al-Carmel – Arab Center for Applied Social Research.

[27] Sa'di, A.H. ( 2013) “Remembrance and Narcissism in Narrating 1948 Palestine: A Reading of Ben-Ze'ev on Remembering Palestine in 1948”, History and Anthropology 24( 3): 1– 11.

[28] Said, E. ( 1992) The Question of Palestine . New York: Vintage Books.

[29] Sayigh, R. ( 2008) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries . New York: Zed Books.

[30] Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. ( 2005) “Counter-Spaces as Resistance in Conflict Zones: Palestinian Women Recreating a Home”, Journal of Feminist Family Therapy: An International Forum 17( 3–4): 109– 141.

[31] Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. ( 2009) “The Political Economy of Children's Trauma: A Case Study of House Demolitions in Palestine”, Feminism and Psychology 19( 3): 335– 342.

[32] Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. ( 2010) “Palestinian Women and the Politics of Invisibility: Towards a Feminist Methodology”, Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 3( 1): 1– 21.

[33] Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. ( 2012) Birthing in Occupied East Jerusalem: Palestinian Women's Experiences of Pregnancy and Delivery . Jerusalem: YWCA.

[34] Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. and Zu'bi, H. ( 2013) “Yaffa: Exile in the Homeland and Growth”, Journal of Palestine Studies 93: 50– 65 (Arabic).

[35] Shihade, M. ( 2011) “Introduction”, in Israel and the Palestinian Minority: Political Monitoring Report, January through March 2011 . Haifa, Israel: Mada al-Carmel – Arab Center for Applied Social Research. Available online at http://mada-research.org/en/files/2013/05/pmr13.pdf (accessed 13 February 2015).

[36] Soffer, A. ( 2008) “The Connection between Demography and National and International Security – The Case of the E.U.”, National Security and the Future 1–2( 9): 7– 21.

[37] Staub, E. and Pearlman, L.A. ( 2000) “Healing, Reconciliation and Forgiving after Genocide and Other Collective Violence”, in S.J. Helmick, G. Raymond, and R.L. Petersen, eds, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy, and Conflict Transformation . Radnor: Templeton Foundation Press.

[38] Stoler, L. ( 2008) “Imperial Debris: Reflections on Ruins and Ruination”, Cultural Anthropology 23( 2): 191– 219.

[39] Veracini, L. ( 2010a) “The Settler-Colonial Situation”, Native Studies Review 19( 1): 101– 118.

[40] Veracini, L. ( 2010b) Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

[41] Wolfe, P. ( 2006) “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native”, Journal of Genocide Research 8( 4): 387– 409.

[42] Wolfe, P. ( 2012) “Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism's Conquest of Economics”, Settler Colonial Studies 2( 1): 133– 171.

[43] Yakobson, A. ( 2011) “Israeli Democracy Is Alive, Kicking and Screaming”, Israel Studies Review 26( 1): 12– 26.

[44] Zureik, E. ( 1978) Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism . London: Routledge.

[45] Zureik, E., Lyon, D., and Abu-Laban, Y. ( 2011) Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory, and Power . New York: Routledge.

[46] Zureik, R. ( 2008) “Notes on the Value of Theory: Readings in the Law of Return – A Polemic”, Law & Ethics of Human Rights 2( 1): 344– 386.

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