Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival

Sophie Richter-Devroe

Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Country
United States
Published
19 September 2018
Pages
224
ISBN
9780252041860

Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival

Sophie Richter-Devroe

During the last twenty years, Palestinian women have practiced creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism. Sophie Richter-Devroe reflects on their struggles to bring about social and political change. Richter-Devroe’s ethnographic approach draws from revealing in-depth interviews and participant observation in Palestine. The result: a forceful critique of mainstream conflict resolution methods and the failed woman-to-woman peacebuilding projects so lauded around the world. The liberal faith in dialogue as core of the political and the assumption that women’s nurturing nature makes them superior peacemakers, collapse in the face of past and ongoing Israeli state violences.

Instead, women confront Israeli settler colonialism directly and indirectly in their popular and everyday acts of resistance. Richter-Devroe’s analysis zooms in on the intricate dynamics of daily life in Palestine, tracing the emergent politics that women articulate and practice there. In shedding light on contemporary gendered politics from below in the region, the book invites a rethinking of the workings, shapes, and boundaries of the political.

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