Palestine and the Western Academe

Fighting the Exception, Defending Epistemic Justice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-00491-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 485 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

The ongoing devastation in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, alongside the systematic destruction of Palestinian universities, has coincided with intensified censorship and repression within Western academic institutions. These developments reveal the distinctive position that Zionism and its defense has held for decades within Western imperial structures, creating patterns of epistemic injustice.

Palestine and the Western Academe emerges from a collective sense of political and intellectual urgency in response to mounting repression against scholars and students working on and studying Palestine. While attacks on academic freedom and freedom of speech in Western academia have intensified, they have been met with new forms of resistance and disobedience, bolstered by coalitional anti-racist and anti-capitalist solidarities extending from Palestine globally.

This edited volume brings together significant contributions from scholars and students offering fresh approaches to the epistemic and political struggles surrounding Palestine. It demonstrates the timely and enduring relevance of the Palestinian question to international academic spaces and is essential reading for academics, researchers and students interested in Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Critical Theory, Decolonial Studies, and Academic Freedom discourse.

Most of the chapters in this book were originally published in Middle East Critique. This edition comes with several new chapters and an updated introduction, offering fresh perspectives and expanded analysis on these urgent and evolving issues.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perugini, Nicola

Alqaisiya, Walaa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Palestine and the Global Struggle for Epistemic Justice 1. Resistance to Repression and Back Again: The Movement for Palestinian Liberation in US Academia 2. ‘Axis of Evil’ and the Academic Repression of Palestine Solidarity 3. Antisemitism and Zionism: The Internal Operations of the IHRA Definition 4. Witnessing the Architecture of a Cancellation: The Silencing of Voices on Palestine in Austrian Academia 5. Erasing Palestine in Germany’s Educational System: The Racial Frontiers of Liberal Freedom 6. Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis 7. Palestine Solidarity and Zionist Backlash in Australian Universities 8. Australian universities in the Gaza genocide: managerial capitulation, staff and student resistance 9. A Land Acknowledgment in a Different Key: Palestine, Solidarity and the Disruption of the Liberal Script 10. The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception 11. Do Not Cower to Zionists: How Hillel International is targeting anti-Zionist work on North American College Campuses 12. Scholasticidal Tendencies: Notes on academia during genocide 13. Palestine and the Ends of Theory 14. Palestine is the Vanguard for Our Liberation: Insights from the Students’ Intifada at Columbia University 15. Becoming Combat Intellectuals: The Student Intifada at CUNY 16. Forging Anticolonial Solidarity in the Hour of Genocide Haki / Pláticas on Complicity, Dissent and Protest in a Belgian University 17. Still Balfour’s University: Upholding Al-Thawabet in the face of ‘necro-bureaucracy’ 18. Balfour’s Imperial Legacy: Genocide and the Incommensurable Politics of Decolonial Redress

Über Autor(innen)

Walaa Alqaisiya is a Scholar of Middle East Studies based at Northwest University in the People's Republic of China. She received her PhD in Human Geography from Durham University (UK), and taught at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK).  Her research spans Indigenous ecologies, gender and sexuality studies, and decolonial theories. Her book Decolonial Queering in Palestine (Routledge 2023) examines how Palestinian queer politics challenge Zionist settler-colonialism while imagining a free Palestine beyond the Oslo impasse. Alqaisiya's work appears in prestigious journals including Social and Cultural Geography, Political Geography, Radical Philosophy, and Palestine Studies. Building on research from her Global Marie Curie Fellowship across Ca' Foscari University (Italy), Columbia University (USA), and LSE (UK), she currently studies colonial ecocidal violence and Indigenous women's ecologies from Palestine to Turtle Island. She serves on the editorial boards of Middle East Critique and Gender Place and Culture.

Nicola Perugini teaches International Politics at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on international law, human rights, and violence. He co-authored The Human Right to Dominate (2015), Morbid Symptoms (2017), and Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (2020). His research spans war ethics, human rights politics, humanitarianism, refugee studies, and settler-colonialism. His current project, "Decolonising the Civilian," examines decolonization, international law, and civilian status in armed conflicts. Perugini has held prestigious positions at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Brown University (Mellon Fellow), and as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow. He previously taught at American University of Rome, Al Quds Bard College (where he directed the Human Rights Program), and University of Bologna. He has served as consultant for UNESCO and UN Women. His opinion pieces have appeared in several publications including Al Jazeera, London Review of Books, Jewish Currents, and The Nation.