In this episode, I sit down with the one and only Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian to talk about the textures of life making that abound in Palestine, produced and created by Palestinians, for the preservation and continuation of all of Palestine. We discuss the centrality of al-Quds (Jerusalem) in her thinking and in her scholarship, and unpack the ways in which her focus has always been to provide counter-readings that trouble hegemonic knowledge production that positions Palestinians as always-already victims or "disposable". As always, the conversation with Nadera draws on feminist practices of being, despite pressures of erasure, displacement, and dispossession.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian is a leading scholar in the fields of violence against women and the impacts of political violence on childhood, focusing primarily on the experience of Palestinians subject to settler colonial technologies of violence. She received the Women's Rights Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for her research, which has been supported by more than a dozen foundations. Nadera is currently a visiting professor of gender and sexuality studies at Princeton. She is the Chair of Global Law at the Queen Mary University of London School of Law and is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law-Emeritus at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Check out a selection of Nadera's work here:
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