Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-157) and index.
Contents:
1. Childhood as political capital -- 2. Caging: from Lydda, 1948, to Hebron, 2018 -- 3. "Our existence is upsetting them": gendered violence and unchilding in the Naqab -- 4. "They made my parents into prison guards": childhood, parenthood, and the carceral politics of home arrest -- 5. Unbreakable: the intimacy of torture and the children of Gaza -- 6. Children as political capital: unchilding and the incomplete death.
Summary:
"This book documents the words and chronicles of Palestinian children. In working on this project, I consulted with the narratives of the elderly who survived the Nakba (the Palestinian catastrophe) and of their children who are still marked by violence in their lives and on their bodies. My analyses are framed by my observations as a Palestinian-Armenian social worker, criminologist, and sociolegal scholar. But they are also shaped by my own experiences as a child and descendent of survivors of the Palestinian Nakba and the Armenian Genocide, survivors who are still struggling to prevent further atrocities and realize a morally grounded acknowledgement of their pain and ability to survive"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.