TY - JOUR
T1 - Femicide and Colonization
T2 - Between the Politics of Exclusion and the Culture of Control
AU - Shalhoub-Kervorkian, Nadera
AU - Daher-Nashif, Suhad
N1 - Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Part of the article is based on a research which we conducted on killing women in the three Palestinian contexts: the Palestinian minority into the Israeli state, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The research was financially supported through the CSBR by Women for Women’s Human Rights organization.
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - This article explores the murder of women and girls, which we name it Femicide, among the Palestinian community living in Israel. Specifically, it analyzes how the dialectic interrelationship between informal and formal legal-social systems constructs the murders of Palestinian women. The data revealed that femicide is a crime empowered by the wider context of colonization and the increasing spatial segregation of Palestinian communities. The study confirms the need to move beyond simplistic "cultural" explanations of femicide, and pay closer attention to the ways in which the structure, politics and economy of death function in colonized spaces and contexts.
AB - This article explores the murder of women and girls, which we name it Femicide, among the Palestinian community living in Israel. Specifically, it analyzes how the dialectic interrelationship between informal and formal legal-social systems constructs the murders of Palestinian women. The data revealed that femicide is a crime empowered by the wider context of colonization and the increasing spatial segregation of Palestinian communities. The study confirms the need to move beyond simplistic "cultural" explanations of femicide, and pay closer attention to the ways in which the structure, politics and economy of death function in colonized spaces and contexts.
KW - Palestine
KW - colonization
KW - femicide
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84877783443&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801213485548
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801213485548
M3 - Article
C2 - 23676446
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 19
SP - 295
EP - 315
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 3
ER -
